Power just loves identity politics!
2
Mar
My take on identity politics is explored more fully here …
The United States of (Capitalist) Misery
28
Feb
The more superficial reader of my posts might conclude, given how often I have the USA in my sights as the most dangerous as well as lawless nation on earth, that I am anti-American. Not a bit of it. I’m … Read More »
My February reads
27
Feb
This month brings that rarest of occurrences. I’m recommending a Guardian piece: a tour of the mind of Jeff Bezos. You wouldn’t want to live there but I promise a rewarding trip. Also, and for your instant erudition, we have … Read More »
US bombs Syria and claims self defence
26
Feb
Caitlin Johnstone today. I haven’t written on Syria for some time but, for background, try my late 2019 post, the Kurds in Syria. As for the implicit and barely conscious default assumption on the part of most Western media consumers … Read More »
Great tits of Attenborough
25
Feb
By far the commonest tit – in fact the commonest non water bird, period – in Attenborough is the blue tit. Here’s one snapped yesterday as I took advantage of the sunshine, and highest temperatures in many a month, to … Read More »
Why are ‘we’ the good guys?
25
Feb
Seen just now on FB. Thank you Allan Edward Tierney for skewering the dangerous, barely conscious default assumption – nourished by Western education, news media, entertainment industries and other forms of drip-fed opinion manufacture – that “we” are the good guys. … Read More »
Critical thinking on China and the Uyghurs
23
Feb
While it’s hard to understand how [Adrian] Zenz has gotten away with so much statistical malpractice, a look at his background helps explain his ideological motivations, and provides important context on his negative focus on the application of birth control. … Read More »
Europe’s growing dilemma
21
Feb
In an aside to my post last week, Washington’s Wuhan laboratory lie, I wrote: Russia’s recovery from the Yeltsin years defied Wall Street plans for her economy. It sent the West’s rulers into a frenzy … of Russophobia. No allegation … Read More »
Washington’s Wuhan laboratory lie
17
Feb
I’m neither a member of the Socialist Equality Party, host of World Socialist Website, nor likely to become one. I find SEP good on some things (e.g. defence of Syria, where most of the left takes at face value an … Read More »
Jonathan Cook on Israel and the Guardian
16
Feb
When I think of “gamekeepers turned poacher” I usually mean former establishment figures like UK Ambassadors Craig Murray and Peter Ford. Or CIA men like Philip Giraldi and Ed Snowden. Ditto UN Weapons Inspectors Ted Postol and Scott Ritter, and … Read More »