The Independent yesterday: Sharon Osbourne has called for the Irish rap group Kneecap to have their US work visas revoked after their politicised Coachella performance. The trio – who starred in their own self-titled Bafta-winning film in 2024 – displayed a … Read More »
* Part 1 set the context for Trump’s tariff mayhem in US elites having for decades found it more profitable to shift manufacturing to the global south, while transforming the domestic economy into one led by interest yielding FIRE – … Read More »
A week ago Chris Hedges introduced a guest on his YouTube channel with these sombre words: The final stages of capitalism, Karl Marx wrote, will be marked by developments intimately familiar. Unable to expand, and generate profits at past levels, … Read More »
American pastor and journalist Chris Hedges in London for the final Julian Assange hearing, February 2024 What do Israel and Washington believe will happen when the Palestinians are expelled from a land they have lived in for centuries? How do … Read More »
I get physically ill watching liberals complain about Donald Trump, instead of what made people desperate enough to vote for him – Reverend Chris Hedges It’s difficult to get a man to see a truth his salary depends on him not … Read More »
I get physically ill watching liberals complain about Donald Trump, instead of what made people desperate enough to vote for him – Reverend Chris Hedges Trump represents greater continuity of foreign policy than either his detractors or admirers recognise – steel city … Read More »
As more and more westerners grow disgusted with Israel and their governments’ support for its depravity, the far left is going to talk to the public about the difference between Zionism and Judaism, about the western empire and its interests … Read More »
Remember the propaganda traction apartheid apologists gained from the widely circulated, and thoroughly discredited, New York Times allegations of Hamas having used systematic rape on October 7? I heard there’s an Arab saying that all Israel’s accusations are in reality … Read More »
The last day of March continued Britain’s unseasonal heatwave. I wandered the Kennet & Avon Canal towpath, a stone’s throw from the Georgian splendour of Bath city centre … … to encounter nature red in tooth and claw. (I’m pretty … Read More »