Can you imagine a sane world where this … … and this … … and this … … drew more opprobrium from liberals than the alleged sexual misconduct of a man who, like the similarly targeted Julian Assange and Scott … Read More »
The biosphere is dying, and we are hurtling toward nuclear war, and it is so very, very heartbreaking, and yet even in the midst of that heartbreak nature shines as majestically as ever, and some moments all you can do … Read More »
We need to remind people they work for the employer, not the other way around. we need to see unemployment rise, unemployment has to jump 40–50 percent … Tim Gurner, property developer Once the penny dropped that modern monetary theory … Read More »
Guardian/Observer, September 10, 2023. Click the screenshot to access the piece. Twenty-two years ago today the world’s screens displayed endlessly looped footage of transcontinental airliners punching gaping craters in Towers 1 and 2 of New York’s World Trade Centre, and … Read More »
Despite its systemic duplicity, I often scan The Guardian. (Ditto Economist, NYT, WSJ, CNN and other media which cheerlead for empire when push comes to shove, but whose business model and market niche – and the need to establish credibility with ‘elite’ … Read More »
I speak often, here and here for instance, of media distortion as (a) operating more by lies of omission – safer, and over the long haul more effective than lies of commission in powering overarching narratives like West good, Russia … Read More »
CNN, Sunday September 3, 2023 * In a post of July 2022 – Will the real Zelenski please stand up? – I wrote: Zelensky won in 2019 on a peace ticket to ease tensions with Moscow and give ethnic Russians … Read More »
Let’s say once more what our corporate media dare not. The big loser in the US war on Russia in Ukraine is Europe. Let’s also apply the wisdom, when we’re in a hole, of ceasing to excavate. Even if, once … Read More »
… continued from Part 1 …. * In a piece replicated in full on this site – Who pays for the US war machine? – my old friend Bryan Gocke noted that despite running a colossal national debt, the USA … Read More »
Among many gems in her post today, Caitlin offers this: So much empire apologia today is just people pretending not to understand what the word “provoked” means. “Oh, so you’re saying the west’s actions JUSTIFY Putin’s invasion?? You’re saying we … Read More »
