When Caitlin Johnstone invited us – see my post of two days ago, On the nature and origins of Islamism – to “think about the hatred and savagery you’d need to summon up within yourself to gouge the eyes out of … Read More »
As America’s aristocracy rushes to heap nauseating eulogy on the late Dick Cheney, here’s how I’ll remember the man. Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words … This last twenty-four hours I’ve watched three interviews by Judge Napolitano. Though … Read More »
Seen today in BTL commentary on a Naked Capitalism piece: Gestopholies, November 3, 2025 at 7:36 pm LOL. Stalin certainly did revive industrial policy in Russia, but he did it in a very flawed way. In order for no one … Read More »
Two items in my inbox caught my eye this morning. One, by Caitlin Johnstone, refers to a piece two days ago in Israel’s liberal Haaretz, under the self explanatory title, Israeli Settlers Filmed Torturing Lambs in a Palestinian-owned Pen in … Read More »
On a tip off from reader Nick Hefferman, a few posts back, I’m reading Aaron Good’s American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. It does what it says on the tin – or, six chapters in, holds out every promise … Read More »
Levers Water is in the English Lake District, at the head of the Coppermines Valley above Coniston village. Originally a natural tarn, it was enlarged by a dam in 1717 to provide water and power to the nearby mines. Today, … Read More »
Looking northeast from Swirl Hawse yesterday. Behind and far below lie Levers Water and Coniston’s long exhausted copper mines. To the left the Tilberthwaite Fells, cleaved from Cold Pike and Pike of Bliscoe by unseen Wrynose Pass. On the horizon … Read More »
Yesterday I met a friend for coffee. He and I have similar takes on neoliberalism and the death throes of 500 years of Western hegemony: its political systems inadequate for the challenges facing humanity, and the species we’ll take out … Read More »
The idea that Israel dictates US policy against its own interests, erroneous for reasons set out in several posts including US Neocons & Israel’s far Right, is not confined to antisemites, though the birth and subsequent behaviour of the self … Read More »
I hope the “WHY AREN’T YOU CELEBRATING?” crowd have their answer. We aren’t celebrating because we know more than you. We’ve actually been paying attention, so we know Israel will seek every excuse to kill Palestinians and torch this “ceasefire”. … Read More »