Less well known than his ex Syriza colleague, Yanis Varoufakis, Dimitrus Konstantakopoulos has featured before on this site. Where many commentators, me for example, have focused on the rights and wrongs of the proxy war in Ukraine, here he … Read More »
Sir Keir Starmer (left) and his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn British newspaper, The Independent, May 3: Starmer warned expelling Nato-sceptic MPs could spark Labour civil war The Labour leader hinted he could take action against MPs questioning the party’s ‘unshakeable support’ … Read More »
The neo-Nazi Azov Battalion on parade in Ukraine This makes two posts in a row I’ve handed over to Caitlin Johnstone, corporate mass media being incapable of telling the truth on matters vital to power. Not just oligarch ownership – … Read More »
Two yawning chasms separate me, politically, from most of my fellows. One, they haven’t yet grasped – though the evidence is out there in spades: more visible than at any point in my seventy years on the planet – that … Read More »
Have you seen Sleepy Joe’s appointee, to the minted-for-her post of “Disinformation Czar”, do karaoke? Nina Jankowicz makes Sarah Palin look a beacon of sanity and reason. Here she is in 2015, taking the mike – and, given her subsequent … Read More »
On May 1st, Democrat leaning site, The Hill – said to be “the largest independent political news site in the United States” and “ranked second among all US news sites for political readership” – posted this. Kinzinger introduces AUMF to … Read More »
I’ve set out in many posts my reasons and evidence for saying a proxy war in Ukraine is being driven by US determination to retain control of a dollarised world in the face of Eurasia rising. Yes, I’ve been left … Read More »
I recently had an email from a reader wanting to know how I could possibly see any good in George Monbiot. My attitude to this columnist is overall negative – see my post, what’s the point of George Monbiot? – … Read More »
Most of my writings on identity politics have been in the context either of imperialism’s wars, or the vitriolically divisive claim that sex is not binary but a spectrum – hence a question more of subjective identity than empirically observable … Read More »
Forty years ago Michael Foot was enjoying, if that’s the word, his brief tenure as leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. The Argentinian leader, General Leopoldo Galtieri, had ordered the occupation of the Falkland or, if you prefer, Malvina Islands … Read More »