Yesterday, January 16, Oxfam published its report, Survival of the Richest. It opens by telling us that: Tens of millions are facing hunger. Hundreds of millions more face impossible rises in the cost of basic goods or heating their homes. … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone is in fine form today with a piece that moves from Western values (echoing Ghandi’s take) through the Washington/Wall Street war on Russia in Ukraine and ultimately China, to the nature of the Western ruling classes. Starting with … Read More »
The text and image below are taken from the website of a Health Centre in the USA. Similar can be found in the UK’s NHS literature and, I’ve no doubt, across the Western World at large. Yes, language does matter … Read More »
Guardian, December 12, 2022 A wider definition of human rights obliges real-world assessments … to discriminate between greater and lesser abuse, to shun specious moral equivalence. Suppose every word our media say about Assad to be true: a huge stretch, … Read More »
In a Guardian piece yesterday, on a resurgent far right, Jonathan Freedland referred deridingly to “the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones”. I seldom agree with either man but do have an opinion on the way “conspiracy theorist” has become a stock … Read More »
Screengrab from the Mariinsky website I’m an admirer of Gilbert Doctorow. Fluent in English and Russian, his profile tells us he is: … an independent political analyst based in Brussels. He chose this third career of ‘public intellectual’ after finishing … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone today: I feel like we haven’t been talking enough about the fact that US government agencies were just caught intimately collaborating with massive online platforms to censor content in the name of regulating the “cognitive infrastructure” of society. … Read More »
What good am I then, to others and me, If I’ve had every chance and yet still fail to see? If my hands are tied, must I not wonder within, Who tied them and why, and where must I have … Read More »
Sometimes I feature pieces whose authors’ worldviews differ significantly from mine. Take the last post but one, in which Richard Murphy’s starting point is that all-mouth-and-no-trousers speech by the UK’s newly imposed but terminally ailing PM. From there he goes … Read More »
Guardian headline, October 5, 2022 There is some growth that is natural. Children grow. That’s good news. So do cancers. That’s not good. Any discussion on growth has to say what growth is desired. Richard Murphy, below * For a … Read More »