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 »
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Our media are large corporations selling privileged audiences to other large corporations. Now the question is, what pictures of the world would a rational person expect from this arrangement? Noam Chomsky . I often use the term, propaganda blitz, in reference … Read More »
A friend posted on FB her admiration of the “hero” Volodymyr Zelensky. Yeah, the guy referred to by this White House reporter for CNN: No Fly Zones imposed by the US Empire plunged Africa’s richest country into over a decade … Read More »
In a short post – monolithic control at the Guardian? – I set out why that paper, though many of its writers are subjectively sincere, is not to be trusted. I home in on this organ more than any other … Read More »
I came across this last night on Facebook. A chap named Mike, unknown to me, set out a list of motives for Russia invading Ukraine. It’s laborious, he offers no source for his claims about the latter’s natural wealth (not … Read More »
Within the tight confines of their worldviews, I often find the writings of the Guardian’s more rightwing columnists more useful than the bleatings of an Owen Jones or sub-clause stacked look-how-clever-I-ams of a Marina Hyde. (Hyde was good the other … Read More »
He being chief foreign correspondent for NBC, we’d expect Richard Engel to know something about the countries he reports on, wouldn’t we? Only kidding. Of course we wouldn’t! But we might expect some lowly minder to take him to one … Read More »