. You could be forgiven for overlooking the significance of yesterday, September 26. I too would have overlooked it but for a feed from Seymour Hersh dropping into my mailbox. Remember him? More than half a century ago he broke … Read More »
When America arms Ukraine, we get a lot for a little. Putin is an enemy of America. We’ve used 5% of our defense budget to arm Ukraine, and with it, they’ve destroyed 50% of Putin’s Army. We’ve done all this … Read More »
Gilbert Doctorow, a voice I’ve come to respect, writing yesterday, September 23: Latest news on the war: these past two days we have advanced considerably to a full-blown Russia-NATO war Latest news on the war: these past two days we … Read More »
Of late I’ve done a slew of reading and want to share some of it, though I’m spoiled for choice. Fine pieces from Naked Capitalism, Caitlin Johnstone, Andrew Korybko, Simplicius the Thinker, Moon of Alabama and Michael Roberts to name … Read More »
The biosphere is dying, and we are hurtling toward nuclear war, and it is so very, very heartbreaking, and yet even in the midst of that heartbreak nature shines as majestically as ever, and some moments all you can do … Read More »
We need to remind people they work for the employer, not the other way around. we need to see unemployment rise, unemployment has to jump 40–50 percent … Tim Gurner, property developer Once the penny dropped that modern monetary theory … Read More »
Guardian/Observer, September 10, 2023. Click the screenshot to access the piece. Twenty-two years ago today the world’s screens displayed endlessly looped footage of transcontinental airliners punching gaping craters in Towers 1 and 2 of New York’s World Trade Centre, and … Read More »
CNN, Sunday September 3, 2023 * In a post of July 2022 – Will the real Zelenski please stand up? – I wrote: Zelensky won in 2019 on a peace ticket to ease tensions with Moscow and give ethnic Russians … Read More »
Let’s say once more what our corporate media dare not. The big loser in the US war on Russia in Ukraine is Europe. Let’s also apply the wisdom, when we’re in a hole, of ceasing to excavate. Even if, once … Read More »
… continued from Part 1 …. * In a piece replicated in full on this site – Who pays for the US war machine? – my old friend Bryan Gocke noted that despite running a colossal national debt, the USA … Read More »