Category Archives: politics
My January Reads
The Roaring Twenties began with a bang. Whatever else the decade may bring, chronologers will look back on its opening fortnight as momentous. The tone was set by the January 3 hit on General Quassem Suleimani, followed five days later … Read More »
It’s a flying shame!
My December Reads included a piece by Jan Oberg, which I introduced as “capturing my sense of fear and outrage on what has been done to Syria in the risible name of humanitarianism”. He’s done it again with a FB … Read More »
Talking WW3 Blues
For me the scariest thing is not that the world is ruled by gangsters – a criminal elite with the US ruling class its top mafia family. It is that this particular family, and the lesser criminals who ride its … Read More »
Cui bono?
Sarcasm on social media
I’ve been guilty of this myself so know what I’m talking about here. *
Caitlin on the rape of Iraq
Caitlin Johnstone today on the Rogue State’s refusal to leave: If the initial invasion of Iraq was a violent sexual assault by a stranger in a dark alley, this one is more like an abusive husband raping his wife then … Read More »
If you have the oil …
Rogue State!
Antisemitism and IQ revisited
I opened my December Reads post last month with an Andrew Joyce piece in a far right website whose sentiments repel me. When replicated on OffGuardian my remarks drew a fair amount of flak. Not for giving a platform to … Read More »