If you took the time to read my recent post, the Kurds in Syria, I urge that you do the same with Jonathan Cook’s piece of four days ago. Lucid as ever, he takes, as did my post, the announced … Read More »
this post also features on offguardian One of my most enduring friendships is with Pete, who in 1976 took off to Barcelona and never came back. A passionate Catalan separatist, whose knowledge of the city and Catalan history puts many … Read More »
Federal Reserve Building In a Facebook exchange last month I wrote: It absolutely was Obama who bailed out the banks. (And bragged about it to their fat cat CEOs with his ‘pitchforks’ remarks.) Leaving aside the utter but predictable injustice … Read More »
… set out with admirable succinctness – well under two minutes in fact – by Piers Robinson.
This from Caitlin Johnstone today: In response to a statement during the Democratic primary debates by presidential candidate Andrew Yang that both Russia and the United States have engaged in election interference, liberal pundit Molly McKew tweeted, “I now retract … Read More »
Jeez, it’s all “I want so gimme gimme gimme” with that moaning minnie, Caity. Here she is today with her preposterous demands. I want to live in a world where being a manipulator is more shameful than being the victim … Read More »
Now aged nine and a half (weeks that is) Tebay has a mighty spirit but is not fully reconciled to – or even dimly aware of – the fact his body is the size of a guinea pig’s. Halfway through … Read More »
this post also features in offguardian Turkish tank transporter on its way into Northern Syria [Sedat Suna/EPA] “Attempts by Third World leaders to establish independent control of their economies, in preference to their economies being used as spheres of profit-accumulation … Read More »
On one of those sunlit days with an autumnal bite of the kind October in Britain specialises in, I walked with Jasper in Wollaton Park. Passing through the heavy wooden side gate set into the old brick wall on the … Read More »
I saw the Roger Waters film, Us & Them, on Sunday night. As Pink Floyd fans would expect, the pairing of those genre-shifting extravaganzas of sound and vision is second to none. As when the chorals of Dark Side, and … Read More »