MintPress News yesterday: searing words from America and about America by Presbyterian Minister, Chris Hedges: The United States, as the near unanimous vote to provide nearly $40 billion in aid to Ukraine illustrates, is trapped in the death spiral of … Read More »
G’day world! I’ve been quoting Caitlin Johnstone so often of late that the steel city keyboard’s picked up an Ozzie twang. Fair dinkum though. She’ll be right, mate. I’ve said nothing of Shireeen Abu Akleh, the 51-year-old Palestinian-American of whom, … Read More »
Simply put, the USA has won the propaganda war, while Russia is winning the war itself. Melkularanga Bhadrakumar (former Indian Ambassador) Moscow and Beijing have formed a mutually beneficial “tandem” based on their respective strengths; Russia as a major military … Read More »
People of Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) celebrate after Russia recognizes it as an independent state on February 21 Those who get their misinformation from Guardian and BBC might be forgiven their oblivion to the fact of Ukraine having seen eight … Read More »
Just before discovering Daniel Dumbrill, who last week debated a US journalist on Xinjiang, I came across another Hong Kong blogger. This too was in the context of the crass ignorance (if we feel charitable) or gross mendacity (if we … Read More »
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 »
