And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon Gods they’d made. Paul Simon, The Sound of Silence A commodity appears a trivial thing easily understood but its analysis shows that it is in reality a queer thing, abounding in … Read More »
Here’s another blistering sermon from the pen of the Presbyterian minister and Pulitzer prize winner, Chris Hedges. In my previous post, Washington cuckoos its allies, I wrote: In the case of the aggression on Iran, my efforts are focused less … Read More »
Cuckooing is when criminals take over someone’s home to use for dealing drugs, storing weapons, sex work or other illegal activities. They target vulnerable people: someone with a drug or alcohol problem, money troubles, a mental health issue or disability, … Read More »
Taken today, looking north towards the steel city from Meersbrook Park … … while yesterday I rode the escalator to the first floor of Atkinsons, a recent refurbishment of whose gents offers an eye-catching floor to ceiling photo-tryptich of the … Read More »
Lebanon’s rivers are more than lifelines. They lie at the heart of a long-standing struggle shaped by external ambition. From the Litani to the Wazzani, Israeli efforts to dominate regional water show that control over Lebanon’s water has been pursued … Read More »
I guess I like inserting the word ‘stupid’ in post titles. Here’s my reply to a comment by Anne on that of April 14, Blockade: US empire is evil, not stupid! For brevity I’ve omitted her comment, while retaining in block … Read More »
Three years ago, almost to the day, I first saw the bluebells at Strelley. Yesterday I revisited with my friend Heather, she who on that prior occasion introduced me to this woodland haven bounded west, north and south by farmland, … Read More »
That I despise Trump and all he stands for no more means I prefer his predecessors … … than the fact that I despise the venal warmonger who ran against him in 2016 … … meant I preferred Trump. Either … Read More »
Pro-Palestine activists took to the streets of central Athens on Friday after a firebomb attack on an art gallery known for showing anti-Zionist slogans. Demonstrators gathered in Monastiraki, otherwise known as “Little Tel Aviv,” to condemn “Zionist terrorism” and “genocide” … Read More »
John Mearsheimer is prime architect of offensive realism theory, describing relations between “great powers” as driven by the rational desire to achieve regional hegemony in an anarchic international system. I don’t buy all of it, and see greater explanatory power … Read More »