In affectionate memory of Martin Jordin, who introduced me to Marxism and YEARS later followed me (I DARE SAY unknowingly) into the practice of meditation. Martin on October 21, 2023, at one of the first Sheffield rallies following Al Aqsa … Read More »
I’m still on the theme of EC President Ursula von der Leyen’s preposterous warmongering of March 4: [Is] Europe ready and able to act with the speed and ambition needed? … The answer from European capitals has been as resounding … Read More »
UK daily, The Independent, yesterday: Keir Starmer hailed his “good relationship” with Donald Trump just hours before the US President’s special envoy slammed the PM’s Ukraine peace plan as “a posture and a pose”. Steve Witkoff said the Labour leader’s idea of a peacekeeping force made up … Read More »
Lord of the flies: by Mr Fish Palestine is on my mind. On yours too, I dare say. In her post today – Israel … As Perpetual Aggressor And Perpetual Victim – Caitlin Johnstone writes on how: Israel [can] go … Read More »
Nuseirat refugee camp after Israel’s bombardment of Gaza on March 18, 2025. (Photo by Moiz Salhi) Philistines call it “mansplaining” but for those who seek to make sense of a world whose most perilous aspect is a dying empire fighting … Read More »
Everybody’s shouting: which side are you one? – Bob Dylan Let me also restate my opinion, argued in posts like this, that despite a tone markedly different from that of his predecessors, Trump represents greater continuity of foreign policy than either … Read More »
May 18, 2015: Remains of an Eastern Orthodox church after shelling by the Ukrainian Army near Donetsk International Airport. Eastern Ukraine. (Mstyslav Chernov. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons) March 6, 2025: front door in the English village of Sutton Bonington. … Read More »
Europe’s [Atlanticist] leaders are finished. What we are seeing in real time is their destruction and that’s why people are crying at the Munich security conference. A shake out of this magnitude usually happens only after a revolution or a … Read More »
* Eight days ago ago the European Commission, executive body of the EU, issued a statement by its president, Ursula von der Leyen. This is its opening paragraph: We are living in the most momentous and dangerous of times. I … Read More »
Struggling to frame a response to last week’s announcement by EC President Ursula von der Leyen, that the EU is to prepare for war with you know who, I now have to put those efforts on hold and add to … Read More »