Red line on genocide
I don’t much like red lines and am suspicious of the motives of Leftists and Libertarians intent on drawing them all over the place: Wrong take on 9/11? … Syria? … Russia? … Covid-19? Dude, that’s you off my list … Read More »
I don’t much like red lines and am suspicious of the motives of Leftists and Libertarians intent on drawing them all over the place: Wrong take on 9/11? … Syria? … Russia? … Covid-19? Dude, that’s you off my list … Read More »
In a footnote to yesterday’s post, Yanis Varoufakis on China-US tensions, I wrote: My approval of Yanis is guarded and circumscribed but I was still dismayed to see him play to the gallery at Canberra with allusions – as if … Read More »
G’day. Couple of recent headlines for you. This from a few days ago … … and this from four months ago: For now France is ahead of the game, but the rest of the “free West” is close behind: “Kill … Read More »
Some conspiracy theories are accurate. Click on the balloon. I was discussing next week’s extradition hearing with a friend. “Let’s hope the judges show some backbone and block it”, she said. In reply I cited serial violations of due process … Read More »
In 2021, Blair told ITV News, “vaccination is your route to liberty.” He called unvaccinated people “idiots” and urged the UK government to introduce vaccine passes. What he didn’t say was that his Tony Blair Institute for Global Change had … Read More »
Media yesterday announced a new report that the state pension age for Britons “may need” to rise to 71. I got mine – plus free bus travel in England, also under threat – at 65. The threshold now stands between … Read More »
Few alive today in the West have experienced destitution. Yes, baby boomers raised on working class streets knew the haunted look of mothers with too much week and too little money. I recall – I’d be seven or eight – … Read More »
A good friend emailed apropos my most recent post, two reads on media propaganda. The reads in question were by Caitlin Johnstone and Media Lens, and my friend wrote that: [Caitlin’s] explanation of how we become indoctrinated makes me feel … Read More »
Here’s something I wrote a week ago: While corporate media do actively lie when circumstances and a systemically driven deference to power require it, their preferred MO is to lie by omission. Not only is that safer. It is in the … Read More »
We are not like this tigress, encountered on Xmas Eve 2011 as I traded the city heat for the leafy paths and avenues of Saigon Zoo. In the wild, once she’d mated, raised cubs and left her former domain on … Read More »