Russia’s record of aggression
Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Oops – did I say Russia? My bad. I meant of course the USA. * And before Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Here’s Major-General Smedley-Butler in 1933. * * *
Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Oops – did I say Russia? My bad. I meant of course the USA. * And before Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Here’s Major-General Smedley-Butler in 1933. * * *
This from WSWS today. Just a minor chapter in the ongoing story of imperialism in the twenty-first century. Iraq, Libya, Syria? Nothing to do with oil! Smearing a left-leaning Evo Morales as a ‘statutory rapist’? Nothing to do with Bolivia … Read More »
Think me an extremist on what is being done to Syria in our name? Hear the former Republican Senator for Virginia, Dick Black, a fortnight ago at the Schiller Institute. I’m posting in full here (transcript below) because the facts-are-sacred … Read More »
Steve McCurry’s spellbinding image: eyes of piercing blue, windows on a rich and complex history The services performed for empire narratives by identity politics and political correctness are not to be underestimated. In liberal circles, to defend Julian Assange against … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone today: Democrats cannot wait for the midterms so they can lose and go back to letting the Republicans play the bad cop. This is who the Democrats are. It’s who they always will be. They let you have your Bernies … Read More »
The more superficial reader of my posts might conclude, given how often I have the USA in my sights as the most dangerous as well as lawless nation on earth, that I am anti-American. Not a bit of it. I’m … Read More »
In an aside to my post last week, Washington’s Wuhan laboratory lie, I wrote: Russia’s recovery from the Yeltsin years defied Wall Street plans for her economy. It sent the West’s rulers into a frenzy … of Russophobia. No allegation … Read More »
I’m neither a member of the Socialist Equality Party, host of World Socialist Website, nor likely to become one. I find SEP good on some things (e.g. defence of Syria, where most of the left takes at face value an … Read More »
I’m not what you’d call a fan of Modern Monetary Theory. I see in it no real solution to our most pressing problems – eco-insanity and threat of nuclear armageddon; inhuman conditions for hundreds of millions in the global south … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone today: Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has put a bunch of US military operations on hold, not because those military operations are depraved acts of mass murder driven by the megalomaniacal agenda to dominate the entire world, but … Read More »