Have you seen Sleepy Joe’s appointee, to the minted-for-her post of “Disinformation Czar”, do karaoke? Nina Jankowicz makes Sarah Palin look a beacon of sanity and reason. Here she is in 2015, taking the mike – and, given her subsequent … Read More »
The Steel City Household is leaving today, the steelmobile packed with camping, photography and canoeing kit – plus two canines and two humanoids – to head north for the border and Easter it out near Hawick in the Southern Uplands … Read More »
One of my many mental foibles is to turn innocuous numbers into historic dates. So when I read this morning at a most ungodly hour that a section of my site had drawn 1,857 visits this week, my brain cried … Read More »
No matter how many Ukrainians I talk to, it will still be an objective fact that the US government and western media have a well-documented history of lying about every war, and that wanting direct hot warfare between nuclear superpowers … Read More »
I’ve stopped apologising for showing yet again a map I can’t possibly show too many times. . I’ve had a few days respite – reading, walking, doing jigsaws, catching up on Peaky Blinders and otherwise recharging the batteries – from … Read More »
The U.S. information war arsenal is unmatched because it controls the Internet and its main gatekeepers of content such as Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Wikipedia… It means the U.S. can exercise control over the noosphere, that “globe-spanning realm of … Read More »
Here in slightly abridged form is how Caitlin Johnstone begins her post today: I am in awe at the US propaganda machine. The global north has been perfectly aligned with cold war agendas of securing US unipolar dominance by an … Read More »
Caitlin in fine form this morning. She covers pretty much all the bases – empire, social media censorship, false equivalence and more besides. She even makes house room for that vital concept of theoretical physics, Schroedinger’s Putin. (For images, and … Read More »
Shock and Awe comes to Baghdad, March 2003 Fourteen months ago I opened a post on the tragedy of Corbynism with this: On a few issues – Russia, the 2016 US Election, Brexit, Syria, Venezuela – my positions, and reactions … Read More »
Guardian headline, March 10 2022 Why indeed bomb a hospital? Humanitarian considerations aside, the military ineptitude and lousy PR should cause sensible folk – their emotions not yet fully at the mercy of propaganda blitz – to exercise caution and … Read More »