As mainstream media pontificate on the significance for Western ‘democracy’ of the indictment of Donald Trump, here’s an extract from something Caitlin Johnstone wrote just before he left the White House: All sides pretended that Trump was a radical deviation … Read More »
The shifting balance of global power … technical aspects of China’s ascendance … the bid to protect profits for the few by moving the UK to a US model of healthcare provision at cost of falling life expectancy for the … Read More »
Less than an hour after sending an alert to my previous post, targeting the implicit racism of Gladstonian assumptions of Western moral superiority and its attendant right – nay, duty – to bomb and starve mainly brown skinned peoples halfway … Read More »
Millions of its readers believe The Guardian offers critical, independent reporting that is different to the right-wing, billionaire-controlled UK media. But its limited coverage of British foreign and security policies gives a misleading picture of what the UK does in … Read More »
Thanks to my friend Alain for this. With his country voicing its ire at his use of presidential fiat to avoid a parliamentary vote on raising state pension age from 62 to 64, Emmanuel Macron appeared on TV to defend … Read More »
Vladimir Putin with his co-accused, Maria Lvova-Belova I’ve already written two posts on the ICC warrant against Russia’s president, and had thought that the end of the matter. In itself the move isn’t all that important, and I’ve given – … Read More »
Well worth a read is Finian Cunningham’s forceful response, today on Information Clearing House, to the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for President Vladimir Putin and his Children’s Rights Commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova. Many have yet to grasp … Read More »
“The safest, most redundant, least courageous thing anyone can do right now is condemn Vladimir Putin” – Caitlin Johnstone The Guardian yesterday, March 17, 2023. Sarcasm alert: how perverse of the Kremlin and its Putinbot pals! What on earth could … Read More »
I’ve been using that term so often of late I’m tempted to give it in abbreviated form. Trouble is, SSC is too close to this site’s SCS for comfort. But a shortened form is required, given that self-serving credulity is … Read More »
Humour me, why don’t you? Which of the two images below serves best as metaphor for this week’s panic in the markets? I’d say both but what do I know? Let’s just give praise to the Lord for “fact … Read More »