In a comment exchange below a post last month I spoke of “fake news” as: a charge often levelled by corporate media which daily serve up the stuff in spades And here’s what I said four posts ago, apropos the … Read More »
I’m fond of the motto, improvise and overcome. I use it a lot but maybe it’s time to find a new one. It’s the catch-phrase of Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway, a grizzled veteran who does frequent battle with the US … Read More »
Saturday, October 23. We marched from BBC Broadcasting House on Portland Place to the Royal Courts of Justice by the Aldwych. It’s there, on Wednesday and Thursday, that the US appeal – against the August denial of its request to … Read More »
The Guardian on Tuesday, October 19: Chinese effort to gather ‘micro clues’ on Uyghurs laid bare in report Helen Davidson in Tapei and Vincent Ni A vendor selling naan bread waits for customers on a street under surveillance cameras in … Read More »
In June last year the Australian not-for-profit, Critical Social Work Publishing House, ran a piece by Milton James: 1989 Tiananmen Square “Student Massacre” was a hoax. This was flagged as a thirty-four minute read. I don’t like that ‘hoax’ descriptor. … Read More »
From Caitlin Johnstone’s blog yesterday. The correct response to someone who supports going to war if China attacks Taiwan is “Are you enlisted?” The correct response when they say “no” is “Then shut the fuck up.” The decision to go … Read More »
Click on image to see post and comments Commenting on the post, Farhad Farzaneh cites this from the Yahoo article: The pair, whose work has angered the rulers of Russia and the Philippines, were commended for ‘their courageous fight for freedom … Read More »
Image from The Guardian, October 3 Here’s how the Guardian opened its coverage of the Pandora Papers. Whose face is the most instantly recognisable? Whose, and by a hefty margin, the largest? You wouldn’t know it from this pictorial smear but … Read More »