Tax specialist and modern monetary theorist Richard Murphy is no Trotskyist. But as I said in a recent post he has a way of formulating demands which (a) meet the needs of the hour and (b) are not on the … Read More »
In a closely argued piece for CounterPunch on the seventy-fifth anniversary of Hiroshima, Belgian born historian Jacques Pauwels, now a Canadian citizen, explores why it happened. Mythmaking and the Atomic Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Myth: The war in the … Read More »
The Economist today: “It’s been raining snakes amid the recent heavy downpour,” reported the Mumbai edition of the Times of India on July 26th, in a news piece about a rock python which “refused to be evicted” from an autorickshaw. The same paper … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone not only has a flair for articulating counterintuitive truths simply and vividly – where counterintuitive = contrary to mainstream power-serving fairy tales. She also has a way of voicing nuances of thought and mood that echo my own. … Read More »
This used to be a two hour hike from my door at Hunters Bar, Sheffield: the walk itself a delight known as the Porter Valley. Now it’s seventy minutes up the M1. Worth it though. This morning I was on … Read More »