Liverpool fans: I’ll be a Muslim too!
20
Feb
Thanks to Jawed Siddiqi for alerting me to this. Heartwarming.
Category Archives: general
Will extinction No.6 be man made?
17
Feb
Most of us accept that human activity has brought us to the eve of destruction. Which kind of bothers us, on and off, especially those with kids. So let me ask: do you think we can pull back from the … Read More »
Syria: former UK ambassador speaks
15
Feb
Two excellent offerings from OffGuardian this week. Yesterday was a video featuring Peter Ford, ambassador to Syria 2003-6, telling the “Imperialism on Trial” symposium in Derry that humanitarian invasion and sanctions are simply updated versions of the “White Man’s Burden” … Read More »
Love at Theresienstadt
24
Jan
All you need is love. The Beatles I see friends shaking hands, saying how do you do? – they’re really saying, I love you. Louis Armstrong A recent post saw me invoking Maslow as if his ‘hierarchy of human need’ … Read More »
Monbiot, Syria and Universalism
16
Nov
this post also features in offguardian I’m worried about George. An admirer of many years standing of his excellent columns charting what John Smith’s even more excellent Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century refers to as “capitalism’s destruction of nature”, I’m … Read More »
Reading the Reformation
31
Oct
This post also features in OffGuardian Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. Bishop Latimer: Oct … Read More »
Chavism: critical but unconditional ..
6
Sep
This post also features on Renegade Inc With single voice, mainstream media trash Maduro for election theft and tanking the economy. As with Syria and North Korea, many buy such poppycock. This despite the fact leaders in the global south … Read More »
Why Trump rolled over on Russia
25
Aug
This post also features on Off-Guardian and Renegade Inc Trump’s cave in on rapprochement with Putin shows the weakness and shallow worldview of this inept narcissist. More importantly, it shows an American ruling class committed to war, cold for now, … Read More »
Spare a thought for Yemen
25
Aug
This appeared a few minutes ago in posts selected for me by Facebook. Am I an extremist to note the absence here of any reference to war crimes commited in Yemen by our friends in Riyadh? Am I an extremist, … Read More »
Economics of imperialism
17
Aug
this post also features in off-guardian The most important book I’ve read in years is John Smith’s Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation and Capitalism’s Final Crisis. Here’s an abridged extract from its opening words: The collapse of Rana … Read More »