My December 5 post – Venezuela: follow through or dial down – weighed competing factors before concluding that America’s ugly show of force in the Caribbean will likely end in a climb-down testing to the limit its narrative managers’ ability … Read More »
In comes Romeo, he’s moaning “You belong to me, I believe” And someone says, “You’re in the wrong place, my friend You’d better leave” In classrooms, workplaces and cults of marx-leninist or ‘spiritual’ stripe, I’ve spent my whole life feeling … Read More »
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same … This ‘semi sabbatical’ I keep … Read More »
I’ve been seeing some choice Alt-media headlines these past few days. Like Caitlin’s World’s most tyrannical government wants to free Venezuela from tyranny, followed the next day by her Sorry if this is antisemitic but I think it’s wrong to … Read More »
Commenting on my post of November 7, Let’s talk about Venezuela, reader Jams O’Donnell cited Military Watch on the possibility that Russia: … will introduce the US to their own Ukraine on their own doorstep. As well as recently signing … Read More »
Murdoch’s WSJ, November 30 Normally it never would have occurred to the average westerner that a country on the other side of the planet should be invaded and its leader replaced with a puppet regime. That’s not the sort of … Read More »
Kernow Damo two days ago: If the data showed a runaway surge of incidents in the NHS requiring emergency intervention, the government would be shouting the numbers from the rooftops, wouldn’t they? They’d be on every broadcast outlet waving spreadsheets … Read More »
My posts on America’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine are legion. All make the irrefutable case that a dying US empire, not “Putin’s aggression”, is the conflict’s root and ongoing cause. The most decisive rebuttal of the ‘Putin’s war’ … Read More »
So Rachel Reeves, Chancellor of Britain’s Exchequer, this week abolished the two child cap on benefits said by the Trussell Trust to be “the single biggest driver of child poverty”. Call me a curmudgeon but, while I welcome the move, … Read More »
Palestine Action, a peaceful direct action group in the UK, was on July 2 proscribed as a terrorist organisation. Consequences? One, those who in its name enter premises which for profit enable mass murder in Palestine, to disrupt the same … Read More »