Caitlin Johnstone, yesterday … Russia-Afghanistan Story Is Western Propaganda At Its Most Vile All western mass media outlets are now shrieking about the story The New York Times first reported, citing zero evidence and naming zero sources, claiming intelligence says … Read More »
this post also features in Offguardian Was Pyongyang’s destruction this month of a border town ‘liaison office’ – touted as symbol of reconciliation but in reality lacking the truth component – a further manifestation of Kim Jong Un irrationality? What … Read More »
Assange was falsely accused of sex assault and has been effectively detained for almost 3,000 days. Now two sex predators are running for President of the United States.
this post also features in offguardian Twitter, yesterday … While debate rages on whether the statues of colonial plunderers should be tossed into rivers or otherwise removed as blots on civilised landscapes – and as we progressives virtue-signal our damning … Read More »
More than forty years ago I concluded an undergraduate essay on Britain’s radical press, at its peak amid the economic downturn and savage repression following the Napoleonic Wars, with a quote from James Curran, co-author of Power Without Responsibility. Market … Read More »
“Those who looked the other way, because they disliked Julian Assange, when the Department of Justice indicted him on a legal theory – that publishing clear public interest journalism could constitute multiple Espionage Act violations – should reconsider where that … Read More »
A friend emailed yesterday, saying I hadn’t been posting much of late and wanting to know I’m OK. I’m not, as it happens. I’m depressed, a little frightened and very confused. None of these states are bad things. They don’t … Read More »
… and sixty-one years earlier. On August 25, 1959 – eight days after the release of Kind of Blue – Miles Davis was at Birdland, recording an Armed Forces Day broadcast for Voice of America. In between sets he … Read More »
Here’s a question that’s foxed millions. Can you spot the odd one out in this list? George Bush’s discovery that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, Trump’s discovery that Assad used poison gas at Douma (with the OPCW leant on … Read More »