I just did a Google search on genocide north korea. Here are the first six returns. An axiomatic understanding all sane and well intentioned folk, whatever their political stripe, are fully signed up for. No matter that what the average … Read More »
When Glenn Greenwald has something to say, I sit up and listen. Remember him? Litigation lawyer and journalist, he left the Guardian to co-found The Intercept but, unlike his colleague Naomi Klein, quit when the latter began subordinating truth to … Read More »
The Taliban aren’t searching and targeting civilians. They’re hunting down a CIA-created shadow army, two decades in the making, still underground in Afghanistan … Thousands of mercenaries with the potential to become an ersatz ISIS-K, and threaten Afghan entry into … Read More »
Wall Street Journal, August 25: Erik Prince is no stranger to monetising human suffering. He founded Blackwater, whose antics in Baghdad in 2007 drew down a search beam on the world of Western ‘security’ firms in post invasion Iraq. These … Read More »
Until you realise the Western world is ruled by criminals, and that corporate media’s first loyalty is not to truth but – via market discipline and beneath a show of fiery independence on lesser issues – to those criminals, you … Read More »
I have at times spoken, here for instance, of America’s military-industrial complex as – inter alia – a way of transferring wealth within the USA from the many to the few. In the context of US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Caitlin … Read More »
If western mass media were anything remotely resembling what they purport to be, they would be making sure the public understands how badly their government just fucked them. Instead it’s “Oh no, those poor Afghan women.” Caitlin Johnstone It works … Read More »
(Craig is now himself doing time after a perverse judgment by Scottish judge Lady Dorrian.) Baraitser’s January ruling, denying the US extradition request, was the right outcome for all the wrong reasons. The request was denied not because patently political, … Read More »
Nagasaki bound: bomb No. 2, “Fat Man” Seventy-six years and three days ago Hiroshima was incinerated. Three days later, on August 9, it was Nagasaki’s turn. Estimates of the immediate consequences – not attempting to reckon those in the months, … Read More »
In a closely argued piece for CounterPunch on the seventy-fifth anniversary of Hiroshima, Belgian born historian Jacques Pauwels, now a Canadian citizen, explores why it happened. Mythmaking and the Atomic Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Myth: The war in the … Read More »