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 »
A week ago I posted on Latin America’s (and more generally the global south’s) defiance of “the international community” over Ukraine. The international community as endlessly invoked by ‘our’ media It generated a response from – it’s possible this isn’t … Read More »
Mercifully there are those stubborn souls who, in the face of a propaganda blitz as intense as it is fact-defiant on America’s war against Russia (and ordinary Europeans) in Ukraine, insist on prioritising evidence over narrative. They need no help … Read More »
America’s war in Ukraine is not just against Russia, but America’s biggest trade rival too. Says wiki: Nord Stream is a network of offshore natural gas pipelines which run under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany to provide Western Europe with natural … Read More »
This morning I read two short pieces before I’d even had coffee. The first, in the Daily Express – Londoner speaks out after stunning Just Stop Oil zealot into silence with ingenious offer – opened with this: A London commuter … Read More »
This may surprise some but on many matters I find corporate media reliable. I trust The BBC’s weather forecasts, the Guardian’s round ups of Saturday’s soccer results. And if the Mail says Netflix is doing reruns of The Thick Of … Read More »
