Within the tight confines of their worldviews, I often find the writings of the Guardian’s more rightwing columnists more useful than the bleatings of an Owen Jones or sub-clause stacked look-how-clever-I-ams of a Marina Hyde. (Hyde was good the other … Read More »
He being chief foreign correspondent for NBC, we’d expect Richard Engel to know something about the countries he reports on, wouldn’t we? Only kidding. Of course we wouldn’t! But we might expect some lowly minder to take him to one … Read More »
First, accuse Putin of plotting something he never intends to do. Second, tell the world you will strongly respond to the fabricated scenario. Third, tell the world when the fabricated scenario is to happen. Then, when the fabricated scenario never … Read More »
[ezcol_2third][/ezcol_2third] [ezcol_1third_end]Caitlin Johnstone just read my mind again. Or is it just that anyone who thinks about the state we’re in with any seriousness and sincerity will find themselves arriving – this is the nature of truth – at strikingly … Read More »
Instead of a real military threat from Russia and China, the problem for US strategists is the absence of such a threat … What worries them is NATO nations and countries along the Belt & Road seeing the benefits of … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone today: It would be more efficient and straightforward if all English-language news media were run directly out of CIA HQ in Langley, Virginia. Reporters could cut out the middleman and drop the charade of presenting unproven assertions by … Read More »
Here’s another Facebook exchange. This one’s about the publication on February 1st of the Amnesty International Report, Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel system of domination and crime against humanity. Download the report here. Though 280 pages long, a lot can … Read More »
Like most of my generation I’m a flat out Beatles fan. See The Fab Four: a very personal view. That post segues into a video of classical composer Howard Goodall, a gifted communicator of music’s more technical aspects to lay … Read More »
… this leader of the opposition, a former director of public prosecution … used his time prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile – Boris Johnson This was not the usual cut and thrust of politics; it was an … Read More »
Thursday teatime: arr. Park Manor Hotel, Scarborough. Sea visible to the east, Peasholme Park to the south. Friday: light and shade on Jugger Howe Moor On to Robin Hoods Bay … … then Whitby Grey-skied and windy in Scarborough, Saturday … Read More »