My friend Sue Beardon posted this on Facebook yesterday. Very few industries can create their own markets, but one industry that can is the vile arms trade. An example of the cynicism these companies are capable of is the growing … Read More »
Two outstanding Guardian articles caught my eye this week. One was Sarah Boseley’s feature yesterday: tobacco industry’s dirty war for the African market. Part of the Graun’s week long focus on the world’s richest and most lethal drug cartel, Boseley’s … Read More »
This post also features on off-guardian This morning, just after eight, BBC Radio 4’s John Humphrys interviewed an American ‘expert’ – didn’t catch the name – on the first meeting, today, of Trump and Putin. In the time between my … Read More »
Especially moderation. Guardian below-the-line commentator zerohoursuni this week had three of five comments on a single article removed. (Comments on a Guardian piece routinely exceed five. Not by word or deed has the Guardian ever signalled that it rations BTL … Read More »
Michael would you fuck me? Eh? You heard. [long pause] I can’t .. [long pause] .. I can’t. I’m sure it would be a wonderful experience, Roz. But I can’t. What Roz Demichel, forty-five year old mother of three, is proposing … Read More »
Last Tuesday this post by Marcus Godwyn in Moscow appeared on offGuardian. A meeting of heart and mind, I recommend it to anyone struggling to make sense of this war. Here’s an extract: The Russian campaign in Syria has resulted … Read More »
This two minute interchange, at a US State Department press briefing yesterday, is a perfect microcosm of Washington’s arrogance. Leftwing journalist Caleb Maupin, who may wonder if he’ll ever again be invited to ask a question at such events, puts … Read More »
Jonathan Cook is a former Guardian columnist, author of several books on Palestine and, like me, disgusted by media coverage of the war on Syria. In an April post – French Intelligence, Monbiot’s silliness – I call him ‘the most … Read More »
This post also features in offguardian A friend asked my thoughts on the allegations of Russia having hacked the US election. I’ve no inside knowledge but we’d have to be super credulous to accept them purely on FBI/CIA say-so. For … Read More »
This from Gregory Barrett, writing in CounterPunch on June 15. It’s a tad heavyhanded in its sarcasm but please set that small peccadillo aside, in a piece brimming with damning and factually accurate indictments of the world’s mightiest and most … Read More »