Many of us ask ourselves, “what would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?” The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now. Aaron … Read More »
Playing her dutiful part in the tsunami of panicked responses to the Putin interview was one Madison Czopek, of whom I wrote that she: .. writes for Politifact, a self-anointed ‘fact checker’ site of a kind I’ve covered elsewhere. This … Read More »
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Matthew 7:15-16, KJV NBC News is reporting that Biden has been referring to Benjamin Netanyahu as an “asshole” in … Read More »
I just found this, posted yesterday on iNews. Definitely a phrase for our times: Given the importance, stressed in my other post this morning, of defining terms I offer this for “comfort bombing”: the delivery of death to distant peoples … Read More »
The devasting simplicity and exquisite righteousness of the Yemeni response to Israel’s ongoing mass murder has caught the imagination of all right-thinking people whatever their race, creed, colour or patch of dirt they call their beloved country. Since definitions matter, … Read More »
An elderly man, Daily Telegraph under his arm and in winter coat topped by silk scarf – not a keffiyeh … … exits the store. With sardonic eye he takes in the gathering – we’re upwards of a hundred, I … Read More »
Reading her post yesterday I found myself in rare – though not unprecedented – dissent from a Caitlin Johnstone I hold in high regard. In it she listed Five things liberals say to avoid taking a real position on Gaza: … Read More »
A nation with 4% of the world’s population – 0.0004% when we remove those Americans who, beneath an embarrassing charade of democracy, have no actual say in the matter – and deems itself “The Indispensable Nation” muses on whether to … Read More »
I confess I find the tones of this man – the former US Marine Intelligence Officer who, in his reincarnation as UN Weapons Inspector, became a household name through his brave and historically vindicated refusal to endorse the warmongering lie … Read More »
The USS Gerald Ford – see my October 26 post, Floating pointlessness … I was watching a David Attenborough documentary. A polar bear, reduced by receding ice and departing seals to foraging for gulls’ eggs, was being mobbed by parents … Read More »