As she so often does, Caitlin Johnstone, in her post today, has taken the words from my mouth: It Takes A Touch Of Madness: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix It takes a touch of madness to … Read More »
Yes, this map again … As the Ukraine crisis continues apace, the article below appeared today, January 28, in Defend Democracy Press. Its author, Dimitri Konstantakopoulos, was a Syriza colleague of the better known Yanis Varoufakis. While I have points … Read More »
A week ago on January 17 at Transcend Media Services, Jan Oberg penned this editorial, best read in the context of my other posts on Eastern Europe and Central Asia, in particular this one from last week: Eurasia’s rise is … Read More »
. A threat hanging over Russia – of a first strike taking out most of her nuclear capacity, leaving star wars technologies to down the few remaining missiles she could fire back – has been nullified. The Pentagon has no … Read More »
No apologies for showing this map yet again. If corporate media were doing their ostensible as opposed to their real job – which is to say, if their business models and revenue requirements allowed them to serve truth rather than power … Read More »
And then it gets down to the level of farce, as the EU starts calling on Kazakh authorities to “respect the right to peaceful protests.” As in allowing total anarchy, robbery, looting, hundreds of vehicles destroyed, attacks with assault rifles, … Read More »
I don’t really get CounterPunch’s editorial position. I used to, or at least I used to think I did. And I approved of what I thought was its editorial position, to the point of opening up the old wallet when … Read More »
Back in the day, Paul Craig Roberts was a Reagan appointee to the US Treasury. Now he’s an outspoken critic of US Empire, one of the many gamekeepers turned poacher so symptomatic of our highly polarised times. Here, in a … Read More »
On December 9, one day before the London High Court delivered its ruling on Julian, and three after my two reads on Ukraine, Scott Ritter wrote a RT piece – Biden has successfully solved the Ukraine crisis he manufactured. I … Read More »
Ukraine’s Azov Battalion in Kiev, March 2020. Note the banner’s nod to the Waffen SS. In its “my enemy’s enemy is my friend” approach to empire, let no-one accuse Washington of excessive fastidiousness … The South China Sea has got … Read More »