Caitlin Johnstone today. NB, Caitlin backs up her assertions meticulously. This is commendable but does leave her posts looking like oceans of URLs. I’ve removed them here. Anyone wishing to check the basis on which she is making any claim … Read More »
See also, Our Beautifully Democratic Wars. Jonny Tickle, writing in RT two days ago. ‘Compared to you, we are squeaky clean’: Putin blames West for betraying promises to Moscow and launching ‘new Cold War’ In particular, Putin chided the US … Read More »
I know nothing that would equal the Appassionata. I could hear it played every day. Marvellous, supernatural music. When I hear it, I always think, maybe with naive, childish pride: What wonders human beings are capable of accomplishing! Lenin. A quarter-millennium ago … Read More »
Continued from part 3 … On the road to Rishikesh/I was dreaming more or less/And the dream I had was real/And the dream I had was real … John wrote those lines shortly before the Beatles, disillusioned by the Maharishi’s … Read More »
Information Clearing House has today published its transcript of a John Pilger speech in London to a Stop the War fund-raiser, Artists Speak Out. Britain’s Armed Services Memorial is a silent, haunting place. Set in the rural beauty of Staffordshire, … Read More »
Today I came across a piece in The Critic, a rag I hadn’t heard of so I checked it out. Its arrival a year ago was as new entrant to the ‘thinking man’s debunker of left wing twaddle’ market, and … Read More »
An exchange below one of my pieces in OffGuardian a few months ago had me ‘othered’ by a posse of commentariat for “approvingly” quoting writers this armchair clan frowns upon. How did I recognise my BTL detractors as an armchair … Read More »
In part 2 I told of how, in the early to mid nineties: For the first time in my life, I … began to take seriously the notion of enlightenment in its Eastern as distinct from Cartesian sense. But more … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone today. The mass media are reporting that the Biden camp has selected former general Lloyd J. Austin III to be the next secretary of defense, assuaging fears among antiwar activists that the position would go to bloodthirsty psychopath Michele Flournoy as commonly predicted. As has … Read More »
See part 1 here. Yoga is a wonderful thing. Please disregard the fact I no longer practise it: that’s just my inertia. Soon I’ll get back to it, even if I have been saying that for 11 years – ever … Read More »