Bill Gates and the power of the world’s richest men have been on my mind of late. The third of my three autumn reads last month was an in-depth on how the Gates Foundation bypasses critical scrutiny and accountable oversight … Read More »
Seen just now on Facebook. It came with the caption: Please don’t allow yourself to become the person on the left. To be fair, we don’t know Mr Left’s side of the story. Maybe Mr Right murdered Mr Left’s … Read More »
Above is the illustration for the cover story of next month’s issue of The Atlantic, mouthpiece for US liberalism. Before I get to that story, here’s former Guardian writer Jonathan Cook, as cited in my recent post on FB ‘whistleblower’ … Read More »
On Saturday an old friend visited for the first time. She had with her the youngest grandson, thirteen and a promising photographer. No guest at steel city house escapes the mandatory safari in Attenborough. The best of the light came … Read More »
Though of the left, I often find it useful to read and at times promote centrist media outside the North America-Western Europe axis where almost all our opinions, on places we couldn’t locate on a map to save our lives, … Read More »
This is what’s at stake in the Assange case. Our right to know what the most deadly elements of the most powerful governments on our planet are doing. That they think it legitimate to imprison anyone who tries to show … Read More »
Is there no shabby trick too low in the sinophobic outpourings of every segment – ‘quality’ as much as tabloid, financial as much as generalist – of the West’s corporate media? Hong Kong based Nuri Vitachi, cited in my post … Read More »
Is Facebook’s Frances Haugen a whistleblower? Clearly not in the sense that Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning, Daniel Halesworth and Katharine Gun are. But is there any sense in which she can be said to be one? A month … Read More »
Remembrance Sunday in Moffat, Scotland, 2016 And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day. Shakespeare – Henry V, … Read More »