Professor Stephen Hawking has rattled Jeremy Hunt’s cage alright. As in rattled it enough for Hunt to forget that no good ever came from mixing it with a walking talking National Treasure. It’s a hiding to nothing. Did he not … Read More »
Syria will be a long time mending after its near death ordeal at the hands of Western backed terror depicted, with breathtaking but largely successful deceit, as humanitarian intervention to remove a bloodthirsty tyrant. Nevertheless, good news is beginning to … Read More »
this post also features in off-guardian The most important book I’ve read in years is John Smith’s Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation and Capitalism’s Final Crisis. Here’s an abridged extract from its opening words: The collapse of Rana … Read More »
This from Off-Guardian today. Sadly, one BTL comment over there missed the satire. It being a scientifically established fact that the average IQ of steelcity readers is 153, I’m quietly confident no one on this site will make the same … Read More »
this post also features in off-guardian, sparking lively debate One reason Maduro is despised by the opposition is he refuses to follow the neoliberal economic prescription of austerity, privatization, deregulation, etc. Such refusal makes Venezuela almost unique in Latin America … Read More »
Last night I went for the second time to the circus. My first visit was in 1961 and all I now recall is a strongman gripping rope in teeth to lift a donkey in a harness. The show must have … Read More »
This ninety minute documentary, linked below, is the most important film I’ve seen in years. It’s based on a book of the same name by Andrew Feinstein, leading ANC light till he resigned in 2001 in protest at its refusal … Read More »
Tariq Ali was bang on the nail with this term. Does it ever occur to those who deem themselves balanced of view, and well informed – while pitying the poor saps in such as China and Russia where they have, you … Read More »
There are still plenty of photography situations where there’s no getting round the need for SLR camera, filters, lights and above all high quality optics. But if you ask me, those situations are growing fewer and further between. Or is … Read More »