The Mississippi Delta was shining like a national guitar I am following the river down the highway through the cradle of the civil war A great song from a great album by a great singer-songwriter – but the American of … Read More »
See my previous post today, Down to the last Ukrainian. After writing it, and while doing a mountain of steel city ironing, I listened to Michael Hudson being interviewed on why the USA is a failed state. After that the … Read More »
On August 10 The Economist followed the above image, taken at a repurposed WW2 Cemetery in the former Polish city of Lviv, with this: The numbers of war dead are a secret in Ukraine, but it is possible to get … Read More »
The region is one of the richest in the world in terms of natural resources, including oil, gold and uranium . However, the Sahel, a semi-arid region, is one of the poorest and most environmentally degraded in the world. For … Read More »
Here’s the self explanatory header of a Washington Post opinion piece, earlier this summer. Not only was its author – a lawyer and armchair general by the name of John Perazich – full on delusional. As Scott Ritter, below, spells … Read More »
For some time I’ve been hammering away at the point that China’s capitalists are subordinate to the state, while in the West the reverse applies. My aim is not to counter mainstream media propaganda, predictably immense and ceaseless; upmarket no … Read More »
Not just French but Western leaders at large now agonise over how to respond to the coup in Niger which toppled their pet leader – their comprador – there. Needless to say, the West’s media speak with one voice to … Read More »
In a post yesterday – beneath the quietly understated header, Make Peace, You Fools! – former US Army Colonel Douglas McGregor offered these (here edited and abridged) words: Putin committed fewer than 100,000 troops to a shallow penetration on a … Read More »
Here’s Caitlin Johnstone, writing today. Other than two brief interjections by me, on a point I’ve argued more than once, the words following this introduction are all hers. Another point, one I’ve been making since well before the West’s war … Read More »
Insulate Britain protests, 2022 My previous post, Ruling class devilry and the Holy Bible, alluded to the fact that: … some at least of the billionaires in whose interests the planet is being trashed, even as nuclear Armageddon looms on … Read More »