I drew disapproving comment from liberal pals for refusing to dance in the streets at the US election results, November 2019. It’s depressing how not only those liberals – some of them dear to me but from whom, frankly, I … Read More »
… body without mind is brutish; mind without body… is a running away from our double being … Richard Hoggart, Introduction to the 2nd Edition, 1961 Lady Chatterley’s Lover is the last novel by English author D. H. Lawrence, first … Read More »
For a long time now the Canadian socialist Stephen Gowans – author of the excellent Israel: a beachhead for imperialism in the middle east – has been forcefully pushing his take on the Ukraine war that Russia and the US … Read More »
The text and image below are taken from the website of a Health Centre in the USA. Similar can be found in the UK’s NHS literature and, I’ve no doubt, across the Western World at large. Yes, language does matter … Read More »
Guardian, December 12, 2022 A wider definition of human rights obliges real-world assessments … to discriminate between greater and lesser abuse, to shun specious moral equivalence. Suppose every word our media say about Assad to be true: a huge stretch, … Read More »
If your understanding of world events doesn’t account for the easily quantifiable fact that the US is the most tyrannical regime on earth by a massive margin, nothing else in your understanding of world events will be fact-based. Caitlin Johnstone Eight … Read More »
In a Guardian piece yesterday, on a resurgent far right, Jonathan Freedland referred deridingly to “the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones”. I seldom agree with either man but do have an opinion on the way “conspiracy theorist” has become a stock … Read More »
From the centre-left Politico, December 4, 2022 * Why do the political elites of a nation or bloc of nations pursue courses of action they know will bring great harm to their citizens? Usually for at least two of the … Read More »
Screengrab from the Mariinsky website I’m an admirer of Gilbert Doctorow. Fluent in English and Russian, his profile tells us he is: … an independent political analyst based in Brussels. He chose this third career of ‘public intellectual’ after finishing … Read More »
Journalists who know what’s good for them please editors, while editors who know what’s good for them please proprietors. Proprietors not only crave honours and seats at the high table. They also need advertisers and, in the case of the … Read More »