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Understanding Carney at Davos

25 Jan

I’m pushed for time but want to get this out today. I see Sunday as offering the best chance of the two videos it hosts being viewed. Tuesday’s speech at Davos by Canadian prime minister Mark Carney has generated a … Read More »

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How fiction advances empire agendas

24 Jan

A few years ago I met at a social event a senior executive in a publishing firm. She planned to take a year out of the corporate scene to travel, and especially wanted to visit Korea. “South Korea”, she added, … Read More »

arts, china rising, media, usa 3 Comments

Why didn’t China prop up Iran’s rial?

23 Jan

As one of the forty protesting at the arms fair in Farnborough last night (pictures to follow if any good) I offer a few coffee thoughts as I break my journey north to steel city house … * Around the … Read More »

china rising, general, usa, western decline 9 Comments

Arms fairs and Gaza, Greenland, Iran, info hegemony and a violently dying US empire

21 Jan

On Thursday I’ll join protestors in Farnborough, UK, where an arms fair – let that cuddly phrase sink in a moment: an arms fair … –  will open to showcase to buyers around the globe the current state of the … Read More »

china rising, general, middle east, usa, western decline 5 Comments

Europe psycho-analysed …

19 Jan

… or at least, its three largest economies on the Freudian couch …   Brought to me by my Gallic friend Alain, here’s light relief in truths recognised, outside the Extreme Centre, by the attentive whether of Left stripe or … Read More »

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Mist in the park on Sunday

19 Jan

* Yesterday in Sheffield’s Endcliffe Park, a stone’s throw from Steel City House … * Here’s my favourite oak in the whole wide world, a tree for all seasons. I’ve photographed it in snow and shine, with friends in the … Read More »

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CIA/Mossad fingerprints are all over this!

18 Jan

BTL comment on the Kernow Damo podcast featured below * Yesterday I welcomed – “with all due tepidity” – a Guardian piece earlier in the week by Owen Jones on the violence in Iran; the welcome bit for its opening sentence: “What … Read More »

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Iran, and liberal blindness to empire

17 Jan

Guardian, January 13 2026 * I read two pieces yesterday by men of whom I have decidedly mixed feelings. One being Owen Jones, writing in the Guardian on the attempted and I hope abortive ‘colour revolution’ in Iran. On this … Read More »

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Padley Gorge to Grindleford and back

16 Jan

Still kicking myself. Seconds before leaving the house this morning, for a stroll with Jackie and Tebay, I contemplated bringing my grown up camera. Problem being I was on the ground floor while said item sat two floors above. Nah, … Read More »

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From Minnesota to Middle East, by way of UK, Venezuela and China

15 Jan

Today I bring four third-party pieces, all short, but I start with a correction. In my post five days ago, on the prima facie  murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, I got two details wrong; one of them critical. … Read More »

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last 350 posts (most recent first)

  • On Israel, Epstein and the elephant
  • Was Navalny frog-poisoned?
  • Is it to be war on Iran? Part 3
  • Is it to be war on Iran? Part 2
  • Britain’s High Court finds Palestine Action ban “unlawful” – but it’s still in force
  • The Bad Trump theory of history
  • Is it to be war on Iran? Part 1
  • Epsten-Israel .. union flags .. shopping
  • Yes, Chomsky too
  • Sunday shorts
  • Yes, we can blame it all on the empire!
  • Media silence on Epstein-Israel ties
  • Mainly Epstein
  • From mea culpa to Milosevic
  • Appeal: Palestine Solidarity Campaign
  • More on the empire’s zugzwang …
  • Has the US empire hit zugzwang?
  • Iran, Western idiots, Guardian and BBC
  • Will this ‘beautiful armada’ deliver WW3?
  • Minnesota: Kristi’s “a pathological liar”
  • Understanding Carney at Davos
  • How fiction advances empire agendas
  • Why didn’t China prop up Iran’s rial?
  • Arms fairs and Gaza, Greenland, Iran, info hegemony and a violently dying US empire
  • Europe psycho-analysed …
  • Mist in the park on Sunday
  • CIA/Mossad fingerprints are all over this!
  • Iran, and liberal blindness to empire
  • Padley Gorge to Grindleford and back
  • From Minnesota to Middle East, by way of UK, Venezuela and China
  • Tehran tells Trump: “destroy us, and we destroy Israel”
  • They who damn Tehran and Washington
  • I will not cheer for regime change in Iran!
  • Renee Good and America’s corruption
  • A US Greenland grab makes evil sense
  • When criminals show their true face …
  • Venezuela: Brian Berletic weighs in
  • The criminal act of a criminal empire
  • Israel: ‘Caitlin Johnstone is top antisemite’
  • Col. Baud is tip of an iceberg. Here’s why
  • America’s chaotic foreign policy
  • US paints itself into a Venezuelan corner
  • Elon Musk gets $150 billion payday
  • More dishonesty at the Jerusalem Post
  • AI fakery in a ‘post truth’ era
  • Waddya mean: “Globalise the Intifada”?
  • Does China have Maduro’s back?
  • This really can’t be said too often …
  • Genocide apologist takes to the Guardian to exploit Bondi Beach atrocity
  • Owen Jones on Bondi Beach weaponised
  • The Bondi Beach attack
  • Reith lecturer calls for ‘moral revolution’
  • Don’t worry, be happy …
  • Primal Scream gig antisemitic? WTF?!?
  • US “madness disguised as strategy”
  • US seizes Venezuelan oil tanker
  • The gentle art of existential inquiry
  • Why China beat the USA on rare earths
  • Two musings on life, love and genocide
  • Venezuela killed the Monroe Doctrine
  • The mesmerising chimera of “me”
  • Media Lens on the failure of success
  • Venezuela: follow through or dial down?
  • Mearsheimer: “The US will not invade Venezuela”
  • Murdoch shills for war on Venezuela
  • Palestine: Labour’s war on NHS workers
  • From Japan ‘Ukrainised’ to Caribbean plunder – a dying empire imperils us all
  • How wealth disparity erodes democracy
  • Israel’s right to self defence …
  • What price British justice? State v Palestine Action
  • Why I keep quoting Caitlin
  • Brian Berletic on Venezuela
  • Winter rains hit Gaza
  • Will the US invade Venezuela?
  • Empire amok, Starmer on the ropes
  • But when you kiss a dollar bill …
  • The New York Times: a party to genocide
  • Sachs on Venezuela
  • Let’s talk about Venezuela
  • Richard Bruce Cheney – curriculum vitae
  • My enduring image of the late Mr Cheney
  • Fast shut-downs of crap canards #6348
  • On the nature and origins of Islamism
  • Korybko on Mali, Caitlin on media
  • Blue remembered Levers Water
  • Are US elites seeing the light on China?
  • Roaming charges on a benighted planet
  • Ceasefire? A short history of Israel
  • Why aren’t we celebrating a “ceasefire”?
  • Can the West turn Lukashenko?
  • One day everyone will have always …
  • What price AI?
  • Dark drama from Delhi
  • Israel sexually abused Greta Thunberg
  • Swarm! A systems view of class rule
  • Gaza, London – and faces of protest
  • Faith, hope and clarity on Gaza
  • Gaza Protest: Forged Solutions, Sheffield
  • On Gaza, power, justice and peace
  • More on the Manchester murders
  • Meanwhile at a synagogue near me …
  • Job done, Sir Keir: you may now leave
  • Road to WW3, Part 5: information space
  • The seeds of fascism, part 3
  • I was wrong (again) about Palestine
  • Sachs on Ukraine and Western decline
  • Dancing fruit
  • The seeds of fascism, part 2
  • The seeds of fascism, part 1
  • Jonathan Pye on the death of discourse
  • ‘Sparta non merci!’ – Zionist disowns Bibi
  • Enter the dragon?
  • Even the Guardian has its Owen Jones
  • Even the Guardian wants the ban lifted
  • Three more shorts on Sunday
  • The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk
  • First they came for the Spaghetti
  • Israel has never ruled the-West
  • Imagine your city under siege
  • They just bombed Greta’s boat
  • Road to WW3. Part 4: ‘Only Connect’
  • Under pressure: Maduro and Corbyn
  • Dear Britain …
  • Even the Guardian thinks Yvette’s a liar
  • Gaza is a mirror on Western civilisation
  • Effecting change – or blowing off steam?
  • Idiocracy! Our profit-driven infantilisation
  • Evil ayatollahs bomb Oz synagogues!
  • Nessun Starmer
  • Right Alexander: let’s talk about Germany
  • Georgia on my mind
  • Meditations on a sinking ship
  • Labour: fearmongering party to genocide
  • Yvette Cooper takes to The Observer
  • Four nights in Lakeland
  • Half-Baked Alaska
  • Two shorts on the UK Israel Lobby
  • Palestine Action – “Yvette is lying”
  • Britain is broke?!? That’s absurd …
  • Do the UK cops want the ban lifted?
  • Ursula – “in Russia you’d be arrested!”
  • Yesterday in Parliament Square, London
  • Palestine Action? Meet Lord Dannatt!
  • Dutch authorities: “Israel a state threat”
  • Palestine Action: Craig Murray reports
  • A Ukraine update
  • 7/10/23. What was Israel supposed to do?
  • Roger Waters meets Chris Hedges
  • It’s the economy, stupid!
  • Will ‘Your Party’ fall to IdPol? Ask Mr Pye!
  • Palestine Action set to challenge UK ban
  • So little. And so-o late …
  • Trump dictates terms to VDL
  • Gaza: the Golgotha and the Stalingrad …
  • Sweeteners for Streeting
  • Paul Mason: “crack-smokingly inaccurate”
  • Francesca – “this speaks to who they are”
  • Ex UN chief on why Gaza is starving
  • Road to WW3. Part 3: capturing minds
  • “First they came for Palestine Action …
  • Rain did not stop play protest
  • Road to WW3. Part 2: 12 day war
  • A nuclear war in Europe?
  • Road to WW3. Part 1: Iran
  • “Don’t mention the dead children!“
  • Epstein and the criminally insane
  • Affirmation? From the criminally insane?
  • Wishful thinking at The Economist. Again.
  • Richard Murphy on neoliberal academia
  • Israel’s crimes: too depraved to be true?
  • To Kill a War Machine – update
  • The British in Palestine, 1936-1939
  • “We were the Nazis, they the Jews”
  • The genocide-haters of Glastonbury
  • The “Jew-haters” of Glastonbury
  • A little more on June 13 and all that
  • Everybody should see this film!
  • June 13 was a game changer
  • No one has the right to abandon Gaza
  • Bibi accuses Haaretz of “Blood Libel”
  • So Palestine Action are terrorists?
  • Ceasefire schmeasefire!
  • Why Iran? Context & Consequences
  • The war so far …
  • Iran is not backing down
  • This won’t be a short war (nukes aside)
  • “Israel’s strategy leads to nuclear war”
  • All eyes are now on America
  • “Demand an end to this madness!”
  • Israel is a US proxy, not its puppet master
  • “The planet is hostage to a death cult”
  • One more on the US-Israeli war on Iran
  • Iranian nukes? It’s regime change, stupid!
  • Israel needs Iran to strike back …
  • Iran goes soixante-neuf
  • Iran in the empire’s cross-hairs
  • Global Delinquents in Syria: Part 1 of 2
  • War on Iran? A monumental folly!
  • Greta Thunberg: kidnap on the high seas
  • Gaza. French is “sorry”, Dylan “too clever”
  • The dangerous idiocy of Piers Morgan
  • In praise of MADNESS
  • Russia’s Pearl Harbour? I think not …
  • Keir Starmer: a dead man walking
  • Gaza – what can I do FFS?!?
  • Ukraine: a NATO division of labour (b)
  • Ukraine: a NATO division of labour (a)
  • Gaza – lies and ‘spiritual’ cant
  • Yes – it really is a genocide!
  • 3 for Sunday: Gaza, Trump, Doug Murray
  • US Embassy shootings: the gunman’s tale
  • Lowkey on “corporate capture” at the BBC
  • Gaza – hats off to Gary Lineker!
  • London: “No ‘both sides’ to a genocide!”
  • Norway boycotts the rogue state
  • After 19 months of war crimes, The Independent says it’s “time to speak up”
  • Who said (war) crime doesn’t pay?
  • Three Sunday shorts on China
  • On Israel the tide is turning
  • Those Houthi missiles: Part 2
  • Omit, obfuscate, gaslight: BBC on Gaza
  • Those Houthi missiles: Part 1
  • Electoral reform – an aspirin for cancer
  • Feed Gaza, just feed Gaza …
  • Fat is a socialist issue
  • 15 dead medics: a tale in GuardianSpeak
  • Don’t ever say “fuck Israel, free Palestine”
  • Method in madness; Trump’s tariffs Part 4
  • Method in madness; Trump’s tariffs Part 3
  • Israel is About to Empty Gaza
  • Method in madness; Trump’s tariffs Part 2
  • Method in madness: Trump’s tariffs Part 1
  • The far right will blame the Jews
  • UN: “Israel rapes its Palestinian hostages”
  • Bath & the Somerset Levels
  • Do you think we’ll get away with this?
  • Palestine Rally in Sheffield in pictures
  • Fighting talk from the EU: Part 3
  • Fighting talk from the EU: Part 2
  • Genocide: the last chapter
  • “We are alone. Nobody cares”
  • Trump does not seek peace in Ukraine
  • A Ukraine timeline
  • Yanis: Europe’s dream is dead
  • Fighting talk from the EU: Part 1
  • Islamist terror grips “liberated” Syria
  • Syria’s Kristallnacht
  • Trump as backstabber: a myth is born!
  • On Zelensky’s ordeal at the Oval Office
  • Look what they did to Syria, ma …
  • For Gaza the future is bright!
  • Because I object to genocide …
  • Bibi & Co have zero interest in a ceasefire
  • Ukraine: Trump’s good cop to Biden’s bad
  • Team Trump stuns Europe’s leaders
  • We are a grandfather
  • Media collusion in genocide
  • Israel – what can a poor girl do?
  • All mouth and no Baltic trousers
  • Burbage Rocks today
  • Trump throws Zelensky onto the third rail
  • More on USAID and narrative control
  • So Trump is to cancel USAID?
  • Ukrainian gun crime and the legacy of war
  • Gloves off in Gaza
  • Owen Jones on Sir Keir Starmer
  • In the park today
  • The western way of genocide
  • Trump’s Iron Dome: Rods from God
  • DeepSeek – and Mandy Rice-Davies
  • Silicon Valley just got DeepSeeked!
  • Owen Jones on Team Starmer
  • US decline – what’s Trump gonna do?
  • 16 scintillating minutes on “austerity”
  • The heartless idiocies of Team Starmer
  • Two new takes on the Heart of Darkness
  • What is to be done?
  • “Donald Trump is the empire unmasked”
  • Western values
  • Saturday’s Palestine rally in London
  • Gaza ceasefire: what did Trump tell Bibi?
  • The economic illiteracy of Rachel Reeves
  • Israel has failed on every front
  • Friday on Watendlath Fell
  • Thursday on Cat Bells
  • Syria’s new justice minister
  • On the state we’re in
  • Galloway on Assad. Damo on Starmer
  • Three video shorts to start 2025
  • It’s another year, folks …
  • Why do we have a mental health crisis?
  • Notes on the West’s economic decline
  • Syria: will Turkiye prove the big winner?
  • Will China Just Stop Oil?
  • Jack is looking at Anne …
  • On controlling the narrative
  • Syria glimpsed through the fog of war
  • Did the empire strike back in Syria?
  • On Syria, chess, and Nat King Cole
  • Bashar al-Assad was no Michael Corleone
  • Vanessa Beeley weeps for Syria
  • South Korea – the Kiev connection
  • Syria’s tragedy: why states must protect their information space from the US
  • HTS’s triumph is a blow not just to Syria
  • A Gaza Lad, and a Man in Full
  • Another dark hour for Syrians
  • Why Syria is kicking off again
  • Westerners who trust too much
  • North of the Nene, west of the Welland
  • Waddyaknow? Syria is back in the news
  • What Caity did next
  • Oreshnik – checkmate, or Armageddon?
  • What the Oreshnik strike signifies
  • Ukraine and the escalation ladder
  • Hands up if you think Russia is bluffing
  • Porter Valley in ice and snow
  • Thus spake Queen Ursula …
  • ICC throws both UK and EU a curve ball
  • Five things to know about Kiev’s ATACMS
  • Words from the heart on genocide
  • Three Sunday shorts …
  • Babies, bathwater and Rachel Reeves
  • This was no Kristallnacht II …
  • Gaslit in Amsterdam/Trump foreign policy
  • A rubber tramp in Redcar – again
  • A republican clean sweep
  • Russia is winning, Israel is not
  • The rise and fall of Alejandro Toledo
  • Will the real Israel stand up?
  • 3 Sunday shorts on the Middle East
  • The Empire strikes back (kind of)
  • US Neocons & Israel’s far Right: Part 4
  • “I’m overwhelmed with shame”
  • US Neocons & Israel’s far Right: Part 3
  • Torched in Gaza: Western ‘civilisation’
  • No, we are NOT the good guys
  • US Neocons & Israel’s far Right: Part 2
  • The West’s silent majority is wrong!
  • US Neocons & Israel’s far Right: Part 1
  • Baerbock backs butchery in Gaza
  • Burned alive for a Greater Israel
  • Middle East, ecocide, imperialism
  • Does Israel have a death wish?
  • They shoot children, don’t they?
  • Roger Waters on Us and Them
  • The October 7 industry
  • A year and a day after October 7
  • Ukraine’s far right: an obstacle to peace
  • Does Israel dictate US foreign policy?
  • As Iran and Israel stand at the brink …
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