The week in pictures
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Thanks to Ian Jenkins, the FB pal who alerted me to a useful profile of the man spearheading the US oil grab – again I use the term as shorthand for a longer list of predatory motives driving the build … Read More »
I may have to start a regular feature with this as the generic title. Caitlin Johnston is too damn quotable not to! Here she is today: Everyone knows on some level the US government has a consistent and indisputable track … Read More »
Even some who oppose America’s blatant oil grab – I use the term as shorthand for a longer list of predatory motives for this latest ‘humanitarian intervention’ – are writing drivel on Maduro’s “failure”. The image below links to a … Read More »
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21st Century Wire This week saw both the US government and the EU set a deadline of February 23 for Venezuela’s legitimate and democratically elected president, Nicolas Maduro, to step down from power and hand the country over to the … Read More »
Let’s cut to the chase. Most people, Western intelligentsia very much included, fail to grasp the nature of imperialism (see economics of imperialism and two minute guide to imperialism). This is understandable. We’ve been raised from infancy on the benignity … Read More »
With Joan Ryan the eighth MP to join the Labour breakaway group, and to cite ‘antisemitism’ as a prime reason, the ever reliable Jonathan Cook says: Corbyn, it should be noted, is the first leader of a major British party … Read More »
_ A Facebook friend posted a link to this open letter to Luciana Berger, one of the seven (now eight and set to rise) MPs leaving the Labour Party this week. It’s from Shaun Lawson, a Jewish supporter of Jeremy … Read More »
Says Momentum today: [Chris] Leslie and Chuka [Umunna] have been undermining the leadership from the very moment Jeremy was elected. They are attacking Labour for “weaken[ing] our national security”, supporting “states hostile to our country” and being “hostile to businesses … Read More »