this post also features in offguardian I’m worried about George. An admirer of many years standing of his excellent columns charting what John Smith’s even more excellent Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century refers to as “capitalism’s destruction of nature”, I’m … Read More »
Only connect – E. M. Forster, Howards End For his well researched work on the British establishment, you couldn’t slide a cigarette paper between Owen Jones and me. The same goes for George Monbiot’s forensic but neatly penned linking of … Read More »
These are momentous times. Lenin’s remark – “there are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen” – never rang truer. Take the past week. We saw – some of us literally – an extraordinary act of sacrifice by … Read More »
G’day. Couple of recent headlines for you. This from a few days ago … … and this from four months ago: For now France is ahead of the game, but the rest of the “free West” is close behind: “Kill … Read More »
London’s Evening Standard late yesterday, February 7: Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson could face sanctions over his interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, EU lawmakers have warned. The Kremlin confirmed Putin had been interviewed by Carlson on Wednesday, making it the first … Read More »
“Let’s replace “Israelis” with “white South Africans”, who were also a settler-colonising people. Did the fall of apartheid require them to “get out”?” I opened my previous post with two quotes from Western Jews. One was Jonathan Freedland, a Guardian … Read More »
Joe Biden (who dislikes and is loathed by Netanyahu) may be buying it … The UK’s Independent, October 19 … I mean, what other option would a US President have, even if fully compos mentis? But for now at least, … Read More »
I’ve had readers sympathetic to my writings ask if my posts on last week’s Hamas attacks may have overegged their swipes at our systemically corrupt media. Two directed me to Sarah Helm’s piece in today’s Guardian; some cite such Palestine-friendly … Read More »
A good friend emailed apropos my most recent post, two reads on media propaganda. The reads in question were by Caitlin Johnstone and Media Lens, and my friend wrote that: [Caitlin’s] explanation of how we become indoctrinated makes me feel … Read More »
The Express today: I’ll get back to that story but bear with me. It’ll take me the rest of this post to do so. * I don’t know Gail Bradbrook from Eve, and likely never will. Nor am I in … Read More »