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 »
… set out with admirable succinctness – well under two minutes in fact – by Piers Robinson.
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 »
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 »
this post also features on offguardian 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 … Read More »
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 »
. 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 »
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 »
this post also features in offguardian Today’s selection is on the face of it an eclectic mix, taking in the non-dualism of Indian sage Ramana Maharshi, the vast storehouse of treasure – and potential for WW3 – below Greenland’s melting … Read More »