War’s a nice earner … Jesus had it rough
23
Oct
Category Archives: general
My October reads
23
Oct
this post also features on offguardian Aptly enough – one hundred and two years to the month since those ‘Ten Days that Shook the World’ – all three (four if you’re on the ball) of my read recommends today are … Read More »
More cheap money for the bankers!
21
Oct
Federal Reserve Building In a Facebook exchange last month I wrote: It absolutely was Obama who bailed out the banks. (And bragged about it to their fat cat CEOs with his ‘pitchforks’ remarks.) Leaving aside the utter but predictable injustice … Read More »
The problem with the OPCW …
20
Oct
… set out with admirable succinctness – well under two minutes in fact – by Piers Robinson.
Caitlin “me me me” Johnstone
16
Oct
Jeez, it’s all “I want so gimme gimme gimme” with that moaning minnie, Caity. Here she is today with her preposterous demands. I want to live in a world where being a manipulator is more shameful than being the victim … Read More »
The Kurds in Syria
12
Oct
this post also features in offguardian Turkish tank transporter on its way into Northern Syria [Sedat Suna/EPA] “Attempts by Third World leaders to establish independent control of their economies, in preference to their economies being used as spheres of profit-accumulation … Read More »
A tale of two Brexits
24
Sep
I am in many ways a fully paid up member of the liberal middle classes, even if I appear to have gone off the rails of late. Ours is an extreme world. How else describe one of such staggering and … Read More »
“Passivity is to invite a death sentence”
6
Sep
A month ago, in a post on capital punishment, I wrote of my objection to the death penalty on practical rather than principled grounds, but followed with this: If the death penalty could be shown to be a deterrent – … Read More »
Democracy? What’s that got to do with it?
30
Aug
. Analogies are by definition imperfect but humour me. Imagine, if you will, trying to make sense of the finer points or even the elementary principles of astronomy when you and all around you – as well as those who … Read More »
Limits to Western “regime change”
28
Aug
Good post in OffGuardian two days ago from the always highly readable Andre Vitchek. Suddenly, Western “Regime” Changes Keep Failing It used to be done regularly and it worked: The West identified a country as its enemy, unleashed its professional … Read More »