Either the Russians are extremely dim-witted and gullible or the Americans are the most weak-minded, brainwashed sheeple on earth. Which is it? (Mike Whitney, below) Condemning Vladimir Putin is the safest, most redundant, least courageous thing that any Westerner can … Read More »
The ever more absurd Economist, yesterday . The crimes of the USA have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few have talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of … Read More »
Dmitry Trenin On September 8, RT (formerly Russia Today) published a piece by Dmitry Trenin, whose wiki page lists him as: A member of Russia’s Foreign and Defence Policy Council. He was the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, a … Read More »
Mrs Thatcher said she could “do business with him”. Western liberals – unlike the citizens of a USSR about to be plunged into a living nightmare – had the kind of love affair with him which today finds echo in … Read More »
The neo-Nazi Azov Battalion on parade in Ukraine This makes two posts in a row I’ve handed over to Caitlin Johnstone, corporate mass media being incapable of telling the truth on matters vital to power. Not just oligarch ownership – … Read More »
Two yawning chasms separate me, politically, from most of my fellows. One, they haven’t yet grasped – though the evidence is out there in spades: more visible than at any point in my seventy years on the planet – that … Read More »
On May 1st, Democrat leaning site, The Hill – said to be “the largest independent political news site in the United States” and “ranked second among all US news sites for political readership” – posted this. Kinzinger introduces AUMF to … Read More »
I’ve set out in many posts my reasons and evidence for saying a proxy war in Ukraine is being driven by US determination to retain control of a dollarised world in the face of Eurasia rising. Yes, I’ve been left … Read More »
Forty years ago Michael Foot was enjoying, if that’s the word, his brief tenure as leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. The Argentinian leader, General Leopoldo Galtieri, had ordered the occupation of the Falkland or, if you prefer, Malvina Islands … Read More »
When will it sink in? While the brainwashed-whose-name-is-legion dance to that Zelenski good, Putin baad number we move closer to the unthinkable than at any time, Cuba ’62 not excepted, since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here’s former UK diplomat Alastair Crooke, … Read More »
