Trump isn’t helping but …
25
Aug
Category Archives: politics
Three new reads
23
Aug
this post also features in offguardian Today’s selection is on the face of it an eclectic mix, taking in the non-dualism of Indian sage Ramana Maharshi, the vast storehouse of treasure – and potential for WW3 – below Greenland’s melting … Read More »
Sarin in Syria: chemistry, and cui bono?
17
Aug
This post also features in OffGuardian The exchange below took place a few days ago, below the line of an OffGuardian piece on the corruption of the UN’s Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) as shown in its … Read More »
Epstein suicided? Come on, grow up!
15
Aug
The Guardian yesterday. But how does Filipovic show that Epstein conspiracy theories are far-fetched? By offering it as given fact: Online, conspiracy theories now abound. Observers suggest Epstein was killed by one of the men who may have been implicated … Read More »
If
14
Aug
If Notre Dame deserves a minute of silence, Syria deserves the world to shut up forever
Jeffrey Epstein: 3 things we know
10
Aug
Four hours ago, according to the New York Times, Epstein hanged himself at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. Maybe he did at that. Who really knows? All I know are these three things: He faced forty-five years in jail … Read More »
Capital punishment? It’s simple really
9
Aug
In my nineteen sixties mid teens, when normal lads were out on the street playing togger and beginning to get interested in girls, I was reading such uplifting works as The Trial of Steven Truscot, about a Canadian fifteen year … Read More »
Bad arguments for good causes
8
Aug
I should make the above the recurring header for a regular column … Spotted today on FB: George Orwell, of whom I have a few criticisms and not all of them minor, could also be right on the nail. In … Read More »
Three short reads on empire hot spots
6
Aug
Few in the West, even on the Left, see the extent of capitalism’s existential threat. One reason is that most of us are doing OK from a status quo whose benefits may be shrinking but still put us ahead of … Read More »
Russiagate as Organised Distraction
2
Aug
Thanks to Piers Robinson for posting a FB link to this admirably lucid piece by Dubliner Oliver Boyd-Barrett. Professor emeritus at Bowling Green State University, Boyd-Barrett is is author of“RussiaGate and Propaganda: Disinformation in the Age of Social Media”. Writing … Read More »