In comments exchanged below my recent Buddhas of Wall Street & Pentagon post, the issue of ‘shorting’ or ‘short selling’ came up. Its tangentiality notwithstanding, I linked to a capitalist-friendly explanation, prompting fellow Sheffielder and rambling partner Dave Hansell to … Read More »
Hard as I try to vary my sources for masthead quotes – from Vladimir Putin to Leonard Cohen, Lenin to Steve Coogan – blogger Caitlin Johnstone remains overrepresented. She is so damn quotable on top topics of the day. Here … Read More »
I began political blogging ten years ago, with increased intensity in the past five or six. On a few issues – Russia, the 2016 US Election, Brexit, Syria, Venezuela – my positions, and reactions to them, have threatened or actually … Read More »
What would you do if stuck in a lift with John Pilger? Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, in a new book reviewed here by Media Lens, quotes with approval a fellow journalist saying he’d stick pins in his eyes to … Read More »
An exchange below one of my pieces in OffGuardian a few months ago had me ‘othered’ by a posse of commentariat for “approvingly” quoting writers this armchair clan frowns upon. How did I recognise my BTL detractors as an armchair … Read More »
The above job listing appeared yesterday on the twitter feed of the New York Times. Today, Caitlin Johnstone writes: People only just beginning to research what’s wrong with the world often assume news reporters are knowingly propagandizing all the time. … Read More »
The real difference between Byron and Shelley is this: those who understand and love them rejoice that Byron died at thirty-six, because had he lived he’d have become a reactionary bourgeois; they grieve that Shelley died at twenty-nine, because he … Read More »
It’s been said of my writings that I tell people what to think. In truth I don’t have the brass neck, but I do tell people what I think – with an ongoing invitation for them to show me where … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone today, in litanic form on our – take your pick – narrative managers … opinion manufacturers … ideological gatekeepers … thought controllers. This is just a selection. For the full list, read her post at source. Without extensive … Read More »
Not all CV19 sceptics: … rush to their FB echo chambers with the latest utterances of cherry picked experts – some of whose opinions I take seriously, though with a modicum of caution – while ignoring all others as government … Read More »