Today I bring four third-party pieces, all short, but I start with a correction. In my post five days ago, on the prima facie murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, I got two details wrong; one of them critical. … Read More »
I’m kicking myself. In my rushed post two days ago, the first of two on the subject, I gave three reasons why I will not cheer for regime change in Iran: Our politicians and corrupt media have every interest in … Read More »
The Guardian, January 12 2026 When you overthrow a government you leave a power vacuum, and somebody’s going to step into it. There is no clear movement, faction, or successor in Iran strong enough to secure power against whichever group … Read More »
I’ve got to a point where the reasoning of liberals has begun to sicken me. (Others hit that point years ago and have taken me to task for my foot-dragging on this score.) Whomsoever the most powerful narrative managers on … Read More »
* The descent into dictatorship cannot be explained as merely the product of Trump’s personal ambitions or psychopathology. The United States is governed by a capitalist oligarchy that fuses the aristocratic outlook of monarchy and the ideological reaction of the … Read More »
Donald Trump’s Hitlerian deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller … … has an equally obnoxious wife. On January 3, twelve hours after the world digested news of the US kidnapping of Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro, Katie Miller took to ‘X’ … Read More »
* When criminals show their true face, believe them. Here’s George Bush at a black tie dinner 20 years ago for Radio and TV journalists, joking to sycophantic applause about the elusive WMD in Iraq. Those WMD being the casus … Read More »
Nicolás Maduro two days ago in DEA released footage How can a man as savvy as Richard Murphy is on economics be so clueless on geopolitics? I’ve been asking myself that for four years while watching the man intone the … Read More »
Above and below, US strikes on Caracas – El Pais, January 3 * It’s a measure of the immaturity of the gadfly Andrew Korybko that his response to today’s news, of the criminal act of a criminal empire, was not to … Read More »
The document attempts to make the argument that in the two months leading up to the Bondi attack there was an epidemic of antisemitic “hate speech” online, absurdly insinuating that those of us who were criticizing Israel and its abuses … Read More »