To the hundreds of millions of credulous westerners who still buy the simplistic “Putin’s war” narrative – a narrative dependent, as Caitlin Johnstone recently reminded us, on believing the US Empire does not exist – that the whole ghastly business … Read More »
If NATO encirclement of Russia was a betrayal of promises made by a string of senior Western politicians commencing with Bush Senior’s Secretary of State, James Baker, who promised that, following German reunification, NATO would advance “not an inch eastwards” … Read More »
You could read that title in two ways but here I mean it in the acutely personal sense that, yes, I’m down with Covid. On Wednesday evening I was about to serve my highly acclaimed onions, peppers, sun dried tomatoes, … Read More »
Michael is the world’s best economist not only in expertise but in moral rectitude, fighting for the liberation of mankind. By “economist,” I invoke the meaning of the term in classical Chinese. The contemporary Chinese term “economy” – jingji – derives … Read More »
This morning I stood in our back garden with not a stitch on. Not that I’m an exhibitionist, mind. This would be a few minutes before three and, other than the light cast by a waning moon, quite dark. All … Read More »
Of all the whoppers told, mainly of omission, by ‘our’ corporate media, right up there at the very pinnacle of porkies is the one which silently claims, by going unmentioned in mainstream news coverage – if it ain’t in the … Read More »
Under the actual circumstances we are living through, determined opposition to NATO’s war against Russia, China and anyone else considered a “threat” to the interests of the Western ruling classes becomes synonymous with the struggle for the salvation and survival … Read More »
Former Reagan Treasury appointee Paul Craig Roberts, one of the many gamekeepers turned poacher quoted on this site, has called Professor Hudson the world’s greatest living economist. Me, I don’t think that goes far enough given the degradation of a … Read More »
Everybody knows Vladimir Putin is a bad guy, easily comparable to Hitler. Likewise Bashar al-Assad, Kim Jong-un, Nicolás Maduro and pretty much all the leading lights in China’s CCP. These are things known, at a conservative estimate, to a couple … Read More »
In my post five days ago, US Diplomacy as Greek Tragedy, I wrote that: Anyone taking the trouble – few do of course – to study the speeches and interviews of Vladimir Putin, Sergei Lavrov and Maria Zhakarova in Russia; … Read More »