Caitlin Johnstone today: The Dalai Lama Is A Creepy Asshole There’s a really gross video going around of the Dalai Lama kissing a young boy on the lips and telling him to suck his tongue while an adult audience looks on … Read More »
While taking on the belligerent idiocy of the Observer’s Simon Tisdall two weeks ago, I blamed his elephant-in denialism – and that of his employer and corporate mass media at large – re the existence of the US Empire. The … Read More »
See Caitlin’s post today, April 7 2023 – The West Has Been Planning To Crush China For A Very Long Time * * *
The Guardian, April 5, 2023 In my last post but one, Indicting Donald, I opined that: We look to media whose ability to be truthful on matters not vital to power fools us into believing them capable of being truthful … Read More »
“We are deeply disappointed by the arbitrary decision of the Belmarsh Prison Governor to prevent us from visiting Julian Assange, despite following all relevant prison procedures and rules. Julian Assange has the right to receive visitors in prison, and we … Read More »
As mainstream media pontificate on the significance for Western ‘democracy’ of the indictment of Donald Trump, here’s an extract from something Caitlin Johnstone wrote just before he left the White House: All sides pretended that Trump was a radical deviation … Read More »
The shifting balance of global power … technical aspects of China’s ascendance … the bid to protect profits for the few by moving the UK to a US model of healthcare provision at cost of falling life expectancy for the … Read More »
The Guardian and BBC no less than billionaire owned media reel out Syria tropes old and new, each lending specious credence to the next. These are elevated, by wall to wall repetition to a public seldom troubling to distinguish “we … Read More »
Less than an hour after sending an alert to my previous post, targeting the implicit racism of Gladstonian assumptions of Western moral superiority and its attendant right – nay, duty – to bomb and starve mainly brown skinned peoples halfway … Read More »
Millions of its readers believe The Guardian offers critical, independent reporting that is different to the right-wing, billionaire-controlled UK media. But its limited coverage of British foreign and security policies gives a misleading picture of what the UK does in … Read More »
