Until you realise …

22 Aug

Until you realise the Western world is ruled by criminals, and that corporate media’s first loyalty is not to truth but – via market discipline and beneath a show of fiery independence on lesser issues – to those criminals, you … Read More »

What about the Afghan women?

20 Aug

Photographs like this are now being posted all over Facebook. Whether by intent or through naivity we are invited to contrast this happy scene – no, I’m not being sardonic – with the “grim” news that the West is ending … Read More »

Afghanistan: who bears the costs?

17 Aug

I have at times spoken, here for instance, of America’s military-industrial complex as – inter alia – a way of transferring wealth within the USA from the many to the few. In the context of US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Caitlin … Read More »

“Kenny go home!”

17 Aug

Still from Cathy Come Home, 1966 Defend Democracy Press two days ago: Zionism has taken control of the British Labour Party. And it is destroying it! Left erupts in anger after Starmer’s Labour expels iconic film director Ken Loach Aug. … Read More »

Two new reads on Afghanistan

15 Aug

If western mass media were anything remotely resembling what they purport to be, they would be making sure the public understands how badly their government just fucked them. Instead it’s “Oh no, those poor Afghan women.”  Caitlin Johnstone It works … Read More »