I offer this discussion between two of my favourite political economists, Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai, for two reasons. First, its specifics flow seamlessly from my last three posts, all written in the context of America’s mid term elections four … Read More »
Vice President Vance, swiftly and predictably distancing himself from his own complicit passivity, got it part right in an X tweet, “The reason we lost is the war”. He meant the criminal war – I use the c-word literally – on Iran … Read More »
Those who refuse to be duped by a duopoly masquerading as a democracy will note that what divides the US ruling class (a split only weakly and diffusely reflected along red-blue lines when cross party Neocon/Neoliberal separators afford the better … Read More »
To score off voters’ anger about the Trumpster’s betrayals amounts to a platform that has “We’re not Trump” as its sturdiest if not sole plank. “We’re not Trump” is not a political strategy. There is nothing in it to suggest … Read More »
All photos (bar one) by Rachael Morgan * A month ago, on September 25th, I took my partner of seventeen years to be my lawful wedded bride. There’d been no bending of knee. In fact it was Jackie who proposed … Read More »
… few doubt that the middle east is in the grip of epoch shaping convulsions. Nothing speaks more eloquently to this truth than the astonishing territorial gains of Yemen’s de facto government, Ansar Allah, and their attendant threat to a … Read More »
After a brief trial last year, soon abandoned, I still can’t quite bring myself to ditch the colonial eurocentric term, Middle East, in favour of the politically correct but geographically inaccurate West Asia. It’s not just that key countries in … Read More »
Even some corporate media have turned on Ed Sheeran over his hand-wringing cowardice in dropping Macklemore. “Ed Sheeran’s blandness has finally come back to bite him“, writes Emily Bootle in the i-Paper. Not to be outdone, the Guardian’s deputy music editor … Read More »
Britain’s rightwing Daily Mail, September 3 2026 Let’s leave aside the vanishingly small prospect of Kemi Badenoch or other Conservative leader forming a future UK government. The real venom in this story from the agenda-setting Mail lies in its opening … Read More »
Lucidly comprehensive even by Brian Berletic standards, this podcast yesterday assesses the state of play in the US ruling class’s war on multipolarism. As usual, he refuses to indulge the wishful thinking of many who desire an end to the … Read More »