Earlier this week I promised: … three discussions which progressively widen the focus: from Alex Mercouris on Kiev’s much heralded spring counter-offensive, through Brian Berletic on strategic aspects of Washington’s war on Russia, to Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai on … Read More »
The Guardian, April 5, 2023 In my last post but one, Indicting Donald, I opined that: We look to media whose ability to be truthful on matters not vital to power fools us into believing them capable of being truthful … Read More »
We socialists, Marxists especially, speak often of “the ruling class”. And much of what we say, not least that it is defined by monopoly ownership of the means of wealth production, has great explanatory power. The trouble is that, for … Read More »
If your understanding of world events doesn’t account for the easily quantifiable fact that the US is the most tyrannical regime on earth by a massive margin, nothing else in your understanding of world events will be fact-based. Caitlin Johnstone Eight … Read More »
Screengrab from the Mariinsky website I’m an admirer of Gilbert Doctorow. Fluent in English and Russian, his profile tells us he is: … an independent political analyst based in Brussels. He chose this third career of ‘public intellectual’ after finishing … Read More »
Market Insider, December 2, 2022 The war in Ukraine will see the most consequential changes since WW2. It will fundamentally alter power relationships in the world. Western dominance will be replaced by a multipolar world. Europe’s prosperity of the past … Read More »
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 »