They laughed because they were untouchable, not because what I said was wrong. Sinead O’Connor Let me start with a few core truths about Julian Assange: Even if this man was a rapist – he isn’t – that is not … Read More »
Excellent post yesterday from Quaker, tax specialist and modern monetary theory advocate, Richard Murphy. Do read in the context of that other MMT sympathiser, a debt specialist with over half a century of academic, political and corporate experience. For all … Read More »
Are you receiving the message loud and clear? Accuse the US of sabotaging Nord Stream and it’s a conspiracy theory. Accuse Russia of doing the same thing and it’s news. Not that both theories are equally well-evidenced. One wouldn’t expect … Read More »
Conservative Party Chairman Jake Berry Is The Sun, Britain’s biggest selling newspaper, about to switch its support from Tory to Labour? It wouldn’t be the first time. After owner Rupert Murdoch was assiduously courted by Tony Blair in the late … Read More »
Amid the most egregious display of governmental incompetence of my lifetime – and this right after Boris Johnson! – with Team Truss waging class war at a scale and tempo Mrs Thatcher would have called out as extreme, Britain’s Labour … Read More »
Has the shock doctrine, set out in chilling detail in Naomi Klein’s classic of that name, well and truly caught up with the UK? Road tested in Chile by the CIA installed regime of that delightful chap, Augusto Pinochet – … Read More »
I’m indebted to bevin. Below my September 11 post on a former Swiss colonel, he alerted me to the likelihood that the Black Hole of Calcutta – its iconic status in that weighty leger of tales from the British Raj … Read More »
My posts use footnotes a lot, in ways and for reasons I’ll come to in a moment. But first, and at risk of teaching granny to suck eggs, let me say that clicking on the inline numbered marker … … … Read More »
Over the decades since Reagan and Thatcher, Western economies have come to be dominated by finance, insurance and real estate (FIRE) sectors which, though highly profitable, create little new value. Rather these sectors, misleadingly counted as adding to GDP, recycle … Read More »
Dmitry Trenin On September 8, RT (formerly Russia Today) published a piece by Dmitry Trenin, whose wiki page lists him as: A member of Russia’s Foreign and Defence Policy Council. He was the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, a … Read More »