Does it look like he’s listening? A minder bars Audrey White from the target of her scorn. I awoke this morning wondering whether to write about Nancy Pelosi’s insanely and arrogantly provocative Taiwan visit – and its numerous parallels with … Read More »
Meet American reporter Ivana Hrynkiw, she of the apple pie and cola smile. But it faded three days ago at Alabama’s William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. On her arrival to witness the execution by lethal injection of Joe … Read More »
Still from the Sophoclean drama, Oedipus the King, snapped on its opening night in Athens, 429 BC Amazing as it may seem, U.S. strategists did not anticipate the obvious response by countries finding themselves together in the crosshairs of US/NATO … Read More »
Our European Values’: 1.21 Euro Minimum Wage in Ukraine Meet Ukraine, a country with Europe’s poorest and sickest population, the hub of cigarette smuggling, the world leader in female body trafficking. When a statutory minimum wage was first introduced in … Read More »
I’ve become quite the fan of the Naked Capitalism blogsite, described on this wiki page as: … an American financial news and analysis blog that “chronicles the large scale, concerted campaign to reduce the bargaining power and pay of ordinary workers … Read More »
They laughed because they were untouchable, not because what I said was wrong. Sinead O’Connor As I and others will insist on saying, we are being lied to on a monumental scale about what the war in Ukraine is really … Read More »
On her site today, Caitlin Johnstone writes: Warmongering Republicans Have Throbbing Hard-Ons For Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip Octogenarian House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has decided to spend her final years on this mortal coil trying to start World War Three, pushing the Biden administration to … Read More »
The global dominance of Virus over the last two years is telling us that capitalism is ready to do “whatever it takes” to postpone its [final reckoning]. It is therefore delusional to think governments, health authorities, and media act independently. … Read More »
… More than a decade ago (though I didn’t know the half of it then) I was saying that history offers no precedent for a military and economic superpower peacefully submitting to being overtaken in the latter sphere. When that … Read More »
The ferocity of the confrontation in Ukraine shows that we’re talking about much more than the fate of the regime in Kiev. The architecture of the entire world order is at stake.” Sergei Naryshkin, Director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence. The … Read More »