Of late I’ve done a slew of reading and want to share some of it, though I’m spoiled for choice. Fine pieces from Naked Capitalism, Caitlin Johnstone, Andrew Korybko, Simplicius the Thinker, Moon of Alabama and Michael Roberts to name … Read More »
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 »
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 »
None of these realities [more suspects than an Agatha Christie whodunnit] are discussed in the media coverage, driven largely by the propaganda needs of the US government, of Prigozhin’s death. Facing growing popular opposition to a disastrous war, US media … Read More »
Today Caitlin Johnstone helpfully compiled a list of this devastating brain disorder’s more glaring symptoms. You get triggered whenever anyone highlights the well-documented western provocations that paved the way to the war in Ukraine. You think Putin invaded Ukraine solely … Read More »
Left, a Bing in Internet Explorer return on my search for RT (formerly Russia Today). Right, a DuckDuckGo in Tor return on the same. Why not make up your own mind whose voices you hear? Download the Tor Browser today! … Read More »
Here’s Caitlin Johnstone, writing today. Other than two brief interjections by me, on a point I’ve argued more than once, the words following this introduction are all hers. Another point, one I’ve been making since well before the West’s war … Read More »
This morning I read two short pieces before I’d even had coffee. The first, in the Daily Express – Londoner speaks out after stunning Just Stop Oil zealot into silence with ingenious offer – opened with this: A London commuter … Read More »
