The Guardian on Covid-19
21
Mar
There, fixed it …
Category Archives: media
The Syrian Army in Idlib
24
Feb
this post also features on offguardian This video may cause distress. Taken by their Isis captors in May 2016, it shows the humiliation of two Syrian soldiers prior to their roadside execution. Now read on … * Michael Hudson, described … Read More »
It’s a flying shame!
20
Jan
My December Reads included a piece by Jan Oberg, which I introduced as “capturing my sense of fear and outrage on what has been done to Syria in the risible name of humanitarianism”. He’s done it again with a FB … Read More »
Talking WW3 Blues
17
Jan
For me the scariest thing is not that the world is ruled by gangsters – a criminal elite with the US ruling class its top mafia family. It is that this particular family, and the lesser criminals who ride its … Read More »
Cui bono?
15
Jan
It’s a rum do and no mistake
15
Dec
_ None of you need reminding what Santa stuffed in his sack this year for delivery down every chimney of this sceptred isle, twelve days early in a cloud of soot. But tory landslide or no, we Brits keep calm … Read More »
Jonathan Cook: it’s the media wot won it
13
Dec
Front page of today’s Daily Mail * Today on Jonathan Cook’s blog from Nazareth: Corbyn’s defeat has slain the left’s last illusion 13 December 2019 This was an election of two illusions. The first helped persuade much of the British … Read More »
Peter Hitchens on Douma
28
Nov
Writing two days ago in the Spectator USA, Peter Hitchens begins: I suspect the Third World War will begin with a claimed atrocity — probably the use of poison gas by a ‘regime’ against ‘its own people’. Such things are … Read More »
Thus spake the Chief Rabbi
26
Nov
this post also features in offguardian Today BBC World at One featured responses to the Chief Rabbi’s extraordinary attack. Zero evidence offered. Silence on the relative extent of antisemitic views within the two main parties, and vis a vis the … Read More »
Kremlin talking points …
17
Oct
This from Caitlin Johnstone today: In response to a statement during the Democratic primary debates by presidential candidate Andrew Yang that both Russia and the United States have engaged in election interference, liberal pundit Molly McKew tweeted, “I now retract … Read More »