Some folks – I’m tempted to call them psychological sectarians, more interested in ‘othering’ those outside their cosy club than effecting change in this Vale of Tears – will slam me for this, but all three of my picks this … Read More »
this post also features in offguardian Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 Of course the people don’t want war. That is understood … But after all it is the leaders who determine the policy and it is a simple matter to drag … Read More »
Remember how the BBC reversed its Orgreave footage to make it appear as if police were attacking striking miners in response to having stones hurled at them? Many were taken in by this simple ploy. While the camera may not … Read More »
I’ve been unusually quiet of late. My last post, sixteen days ago, was not even my own. It was a Caitlin Johnstone piece on evidence-free stories by ‘quality’ media – Washington Post, Wall St. Journal, New York Times and … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone, yesterday … Russia-Afghanistan Story Is Western Propaganda At Its Most Vile All western mass media outlets are now shrieking about the story The New York Times first reported, citing zero evidence and naming zero sources, claiming intelligence says … Read More »
this post also features in Offguardian Was Pyongyang’s destruction this month of a border town ‘liaison office’ – touted as symbol of reconciliation but in reality lacking the truth component – a further manifestation of Kim Jong Un irrationality? What … Read More »
My previous post, America burns – and wages war on truth, took a bird’s eye view to place social media censorship within the context of older media’s declining ability to keep us from unruly musings on the nature of power … Read More »
More than forty years ago I concluded an undergraduate essay on Britain’s radical press, at its peak amid the economic downturn and savage repression following the Napoleonic Wars, with a quote from James Curran, co-author of Power Without Responsibility. Market … Read More »
I don’t share [George] Monbiot’s faith in the impartiality of UN agencies and that includes the OPCW. If you deem, as I do, western powers guilty of a dirty war on Syria whose real drivers – like those in Yugoslavia, … Read More »
A version of this letter can be seen in Off-Guardian. Its thrust – that while I share the latter’s concerns over irreversible inroads on civil liberties, I also share Left outrage over capitalism’s exposed inadequacies – is common to both … Read More »