See also North Korea? The problem is Washington I make a point of checking into centrist media like FP and Al-Monitor from time to time. Though essentially supportive of a rotten global status quo, both have their uses. Al-Monitor frequently … Read More »
Media Lens today: It is hard to believe that just three weeks ago the entire corporate media was in uproar over Syria; specifically, about the need to ‘do something’ in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack in Khan Shaykhun, … Read More »
But for its postmodern approach to temporal sequencing, Korean director Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden could be placed within the Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights tradition of storytelling, not least for its sexual explicitness and moral point scoring. Set in early … Read More »
See also North Korea’s Nukes. This from CounterPunch today: … no country in the world needs nuclear weapons more than North Korea. Brainwashed Americans, who get their news from Fox or CNN, may differ on this point, but if a hostile nation … Read More »
Sandwiched between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, here’s Bridlington on Saturday. [ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end][/ezcol_1half_end]
“The whole world speaking in the name of the Syrian People. But no one wants to listen to the Syrian People.” https://youtu.be/-bUptGA5HOs
[ezcol_3quarter][/ezcol_3quarter] [ezcol_1quarter_end] “By any objective measure – invasions since WW2 .. actual use of nuclear weapons .. refusal to forgo first-strike use of same .. eastward expansion of NATO .. $10 trillion for-profit arms sector ($596 billion a year) .. … Read More »
Sheffield, yesterday, in pictures. [ezcol_1third][/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third][/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third_end][/ezcol_1third_end] [ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end][/ezcol_1half_end]
Apropos my two most recent posts, on Syria in the wake of Idlib and on the US strikes at Homs, Steve Spencer, a friend for close to forty years, emailed his doubts about my defence of Assad’s government and the … Read More »
Yesterday I posted on chemical weapons at Idlib. I wrote: [The terrorists] are losing and, aided by corporate media in the west, have everything to gain by giving Washington, London and Paris a way of selling more direct intervention, posing … Read More »