Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. Bishop Latimer: October 16, 1555. On this day five … Read More »
LPA – long post alert! This needs an hour, maybe two. This is a busy October. It’s five hundred years to the month since an exasperated preacher and professor in theology nailed his ‘grievances’, a summation of ninety-five theses written … Read More »
This post also features on Renegade Inc With single voice, mainstream media trash Maduro for election theft and tanking the economy. As with Syria and North Korea, many buy such poppycock. This despite the fact leaders in the global south … Read More »
Good article today by Ricardo Vaz. Writing in CounterPunch, Vaz shows how poorly informed we are by Guardian, BBC, Washington Post and NYT. Actually, ‘poorly informed’ is misleading, implying as it does mere incompetence and ignorance when, as Vaz’s title … Read More »
Some say the Devil’s signature achievement lies in convincing us he doesn’t exist. Substitute more secular terms – ruling class, say, or imperialism – and the wisdom of those words is far reaching. As is that of a further tweak: … Read More »
… read this. Aidan O’Brien, a Dublin hospital worker, writing today in CounterPunch. It’s not the most elegant prose. It overuses inverted commas and Aidan can for sure expect a visit from the apostrophe taliban, but his words have a … Read More »
… on August 31, 1997, that “the people’s princess” was killed by a high speed collision in Paris’s Pont de l’Alma road tunnel. I don’t know whether or not MI5, in cahoots with Sûreté and DGSE, engineered that collision. Neither, I … Read More »
This from the Independent yesterday: A Labour MP has called for increased support and training for women in public life after revealing she received 600 rape threats in a single day last year. Speaking to The Independent, Jess Phillips, MP for Birmingham … Read More »
Trump’s cave in on rapprochement with Putin shows the weakness and shallow worldview of this inept narcissist. More importantly, it shows an American ruling class committed to war, cold for now, on Russia. To see why, we must set aside … Read More »