While staff at my erstwhile employer Sheffield Hallam University urge it – in vain I’m sure, for the reasons given here – to condemn the genocide unfolding before the world’s eyes exactly as promised by the Israeli state, Caitlin Johnstone has … Read More »
Judas kiss? Benjamin Netanyahu greets Joe Biden at Ben Gurion airport, October 18 In a previous post – Hamas attacks: another 9/11? – I voiced my openness to the possibility of said attacks being a false flag. In a subsequent … Read More »
Staff at Sheffield Hallam have sent the following signed letter to university executives. Letter to the University Leadership Team At this moment, Israeli forces are engaged in an explicitly genocidal assault on the whole population of Gaza. The death toll … Read More »
It’s not just Ukraine, Taiwan and Gaza. From tensions in the Horn of Africa to echoes of Baltic sabotage in the Black Sea – and from the Sahel through Bangladesh to bloody repression in Latin America – there is nothing inherently … Read More »
The daily posts of British MMT pundit and tax specialist Richard Murphy fall a long way short – in range, depth and analytic power – of the writings of American political economist and debt specialist, Michael Hudson. Why compare them? … Read More »
Stern of face and stupid with it, a CNN anchorman in Washington holds forth on the evil Hamas. How, he fulminates, can this abominable organisation justify its expenditure on violence while the Gazans it purports to represent live in poverty? … Read More »
We always have to remember that it’s not just the conflict in Ukraine, it’s not just Gaza, it’s not just Taiwan or the Philippines; all of this is interconnected. Please look at a map. Look at how the US is … Read More »
There’s only so far we can go in understanding why the US behaves as it does without applying a materialist perspective to the geopolitical-economic realities confronting it. And no one has to my mind set out more thoroughly or clearly … Read More »
Yesterday I replied thus to a comment on my last post but one, Lowkey on Gaza: I see the faint outline of a way forward through the emerging bipolar world expedited by [Gaza genocide] and by [the West’s defeat in] … Read More »
Don’t get me wrong. This isn’t a red line for me. Voices I respect – from Alexander Mercouris to Vladimir Putin (though not, I gather, Xi Jinping) have been forthright in condemning the October 7 attacks even as they condemn … Read More »