Every once in a while a discussion below the line on this site prompts an above the line post. This one came easy since it required no further work. The exchange is between Chet and me, apropos my post, Where’s … Read More »
See also, Craig Murray: Assange Hearing Day 1 This afternoon Julian’s Spanish lawyer, Baltasar Garzon, left court to return to Madrid. On the way out he naturally stopped to shake hands with his client, proffering his fingers through the narrow … Read More »
My post yesterday, Three short reads on empire hot spots, would have been expanded to four had Michael Hudson’s CounterPunch piece not come out just hours after I’d posted. It dovetails neatly with Three Short Reads. As marxists go, and … Read More »
No, not Katie but C J, the Hopkins who writes wickedly satiric pieces in CounterPunch. Try his t-in-c denunciation of the League of Assad loving conspiracists … of those crypto-fascists who fail to see verbal attacks on global elites and … Read More »
Good article today by Ricardo Vaz. Writing in CounterPunch, Vaz shows how poorly informed we are by Guardian, BBC, Washington Post and NYT. Actually, ‘poorly informed’ is misleading, implying as it does mere incompetence and ignorance when, as Vaz’s title … Read More »
This from Gregory Barrett, writing in CounterPunch on June 15. It’s a tad heavyhanded in its sarcasm but please set that small peccadillo aside, in a piece brimming with damning and factually accurate indictments of the world’s mightiest and most … Read More »