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 »
From Facebook, today.
So, the Guardian is now filling its columns with fake, heavily qualified and borderline amnesiac apologies for getting Corbyn so stunningly wrong. Let’s remind ourselves just how relentlessly offensive its vilification has been. Here’s a sample, taken from the much more comprehensive set assembled by … Read More »
In the face of stiff competition along lines spelled out in the header to Nick Cohen’s Guardian piece today – I was wrong about Corbyn BUT – the appalling Jess Phillips snatches gold for faux apologies from the Get Corbyn B-Team. … Read More »
Writing in the Guardian on New Year’s Day 2016, John Harris explained thus the appeal of Jeremy Corbyn: I am not exactly .. a Corbynista, but … whatever his suitability for the job, Corbyn is where he is for one … Read More »
Kenneth Surin, writing yesterday in CounterPunch … Labour under Jeremy Corbyn has been gaining steadily in the polls, despite a massive media campaign to undermine him, extending from the BBC and supposedly “liberal” Guardian to the UK’s famously ghastly tabloids. … Read More »
[ezcol_2third][/ezcol_2third] [ezcol_1third_end]‘Best thing you’ll watch all year’, insists Guardian critic Sam Wollaston apropos last night’s opener. I doubt it, for all it stars an Elisabeth Moss who played Peggy to perfection in Mad Men. She wasn’t too bad as Robin … Read More »