Here’s Caitlin Johnstone, writing today. Other than two brief interjections by me, on a point I’ve argued more than once, the words following this introduction are all hers. Another point, one I’ve been making since well before the West’s war … Read More »
I’m not in the Socialist Equality Party, hosts of WSWS, and while I respect that entity, have a few bones of contention with its worldview. But if you think Trotskyist groups necessarily reductive in their approach to the arts, think … Read More »
“The Hiroshima myth fosters a depraved indifference to civilian casualties associated with US actions abroad, whether it’s women and children slaughtered in a drone strike in Afghanistan, hundreds of thousands dead in an unwarranted invasion of Iraq, or a baby who dies … Read More »
Steel city scribblings is back in the steel city, after nigh on five years in Nottingham. Its news room, control panel and nerve centre is sited in the attic of our typically Sheffield – two-up, two-down with an attic – … Read More »
Insulate Britain protests, 2022 My previous post, Ruling class devilry and the Holy Bible, alluded to the fact that: … some at least of the billionaires in whose interests the planet is being trashed, even as nuclear Armageddon looms on … Read More »
A week ago I posted on Latin America’s (and more generally the global south’s) defiance of “the international community” over Ukraine. The international community as endlessly invoked by ‘our’ media It generated a response from – it’s possible this isn’t … Read More »
Mercifully there are those stubborn souls who, in the face of a propaganda blitz as intense as it is fact-defiant on America’s war against Russia (and ordinary Europeans) in Ukraine, insist on prioritising evidence over narrative. They need no help … Read More »
America’s war in Ukraine is not just against Russia, but America’s biggest trade rival too. Says wiki: Nord Stream is a network of offshore natural gas pipelines which run under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany to provide Western Europe with natural … Read More »
This morning I read two short pieces before I’d even had coffee. The first, in the Daily Express – Londoner speaks out after stunning Just Stop Oil zealot into silence with ingenious offer – opened with this: A London commuter … Read More »
This may surprise some but on many matters I find corporate media reliable. I trust The BBC’s weather forecasts, the Guardian’s round ups of Saturday’s soccer results. And if the Mail says Netflix is doing reruns of The Thick Of … Read More »