Let me pick out five happenings. “Partygate” be damned. The Economist beats a path to 10 Downing Street for the sagacities of that great statesman, Boris – more-lives-than-a-cat – Johnson, on a European response to the Russian bear. With Britain … Read More »
Caitlin in fine form this morning. She covers pretty much all the bases – empire, social media censorship, false equivalence and more besides. She even makes house room for that vital concept of theoretical physics, Schroedinger’s Putin. (For images, and … Read More »
Shock and Awe comes to Baghdad, March 2003 Fourteen months ago I opened a post on the tragedy of Corbynism with this: On a few issues – Russia, the 2016 US Election, Brexit, Syria, Venezuela – my positions, and reactions … Read More »
I’m saddened that musicians whose work I’ve loved since See Emily Play now condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Roger Waters – who has done such sterling work on Palestine and Julian Assange, while refusing to go with the propaganda blitz … Read More »
Says Wikipedia: The Biological Weapons Convention bans biological and toxin weapons by prohibiting their development, production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling and use … … Article I requires each state never to develop, produce or stockpile : microbial or other biological agents … that … Read More »
Guardian headline, March 10 2022 Why indeed bomb a hospital? Humanitarian considerations aside, the military ineptitude and lousy PR should cause sensible folk – their emotions not yet fully at the mercy of propaganda blitz – to exercise caution and … Read More »
I’ve been writing for years on the criminality of the elites which, behind a chimera of democracy, rule the western world. And about the systemic inability of corporate media to tell the truth on matters those elites need us … Read More »
The Azov Battalion marches with Nazi-inspired Wolfsangel flags in Mariupol, August 2020 Five days ago on March 5, Substack’s Alexander Rubenstein and GrayZone’s Max Blumenthal revealed the most comprehensive evidence I’ve seen to date of a fact ‘our’ entire political … Read More »
. Ukraine cannot defeat Russia, and Nato has made clear it will not step in directly. What America and its allies will do, however, is supply arms and training to further Washington’s desire to bog down Russia – with what … Read More »
