Caitlin Johnstone today: I feel like we haven’t been talking enough about the fact that US government agencies were just caught intimately collaborating with massive online platforms to censor content in the name of regulating the “cognitive infrastructure” of society. … Read More »
The US Ambassador to Russia taking to Twitter with a widely held view of President Putin, one echoed in the image below It’s occasionally put to me that, were I a citizen of Russia or China, I wouldn’t be free … Read More »
Martin Kettle being one of the less vapid Guardian columnists, when I saw his piece yesterday – under the uncontroversial title, Sunak’s job now is not about securing a Tory win, but merely avoiding an electoral disaster – I … Read More »
The ever more absurd Economist, yesterday . The crimes of the USA have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few have talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of … Read More »
A week ago, in Magic Money Tree? Part One, I spoke of the chilling circumstances confronting humanity. I spoke too of the main strands of resistance in the West – social democracy, trade unionism, revolutionary sects and direct action – … Read More »
While gathering my thoughts for part two of Magic Money Tree I was alerted by Dave Hansell to an UnHerd post of October 20. Now as Richard Murphy recently pointed out, the British Labour Party is fully committed – as is … Read More »
What good am I then, to others and me, If I’ve had every chance and yet still fail to see? If my hands are tied, must I not wonder within, Who tied them and why, and where must I have … Read More »
With every prospect of a Labour government in Britain in 2024 – and if the Tories have the nous to play the long game, a whole lot sooner – let me begin with the two quotes which ended my post … Read More »
Sunday Times, October 16, 2022 * Media speak of a double crisis having hit Britain since Kwasi Kwarteng, sacked on Friday after thirty-eight days as Chancellor of the Exchequer in an attempt by his boss (as futile as it was … Read More »
By sacking Kwarteng, Truss hopes to save herself. But there is little chance this will work. Appointing Jeremy Hunt as replacement chancellor is an attempt to reach out to other sections of the party, but her government is dead in … Read More »