“Don’t mention the dead children!“
13
Jul
Author Archives: steel city scribe
Epstein and the criminally insane
13
Jul
See my post of six years ago on this Chris Hedges, yesterday: Trump, Epstein and the Deep State The Trump administration’s refusal to release the Epstein files and videos is done not only to protect Trump, but the ruling class. … Read More »
Affirmation? From the criminally insane?
13
Jul
In this warped and twisted madhouse, we are trained to believe that “success” is making a lot of money, earning large amounts of esteem and adoration, having a certain body type, living in the right neighborhood in the right kind … Read More »
Wishful thinking at The Economist. Again.
12
Jul
While it publishes well written, worthwhile and even witty pieces on all manner of subjects, it’s a wonder anyone takes The Economist seriously on matters crucial to the elites which, behind a fast fading veneer of democracy, rule the West. … Read More »
Richard Murphy on neoliberal academia
8
Jul
It is undoubtedly true that our universities are in crisis. But that crisis is not just financial. It is existential. They have helped create the conditions for their own decline by swallowing the neoliberal promise of efficiency, competition and ‘value … Read More »
Israel’s crimes: too depraved to be true?
6
Jul
I’m on Spain’s Costa del Sol for a week, so writing less. This is Caitlin Johnstone today: Anti-Genocide Activism Is Terrorism In The Empire Of Lies British police have been arresting anti-genocide protesters for holding signs expressing support for activist group … Read More »
To Kill a War Machine – update
5
Jul
Last week, I reported on the move by Yvvette Cooper – UK Home Secretary, expenses cheat and wife to rottweiler for Israel Ed Balls – to designate non violent Palestine Action a terrorist organisation, making membership or support punishable by up to fourteen … Read More »
The British in Palestine, 1936-1939
5
Jul
Smart people know not all Jews are Zionists. Smart people who do their homework know not all Zionists are Jews – The dangerous idiocy of Piers Morgan In February this year, an Israeli investigative webzine, The Hottest Place in Hell, reported … Read More »
“We were the Nazis, they the Jews”
2
Jul
As support for Palestine at Glastonbury ’25 is met with an explosion of media hypocrisy, phony indignation and straight-ahead hysteria, here’s a voice I cite sparingly. There’s a rich tradition of Christians Against Corruption. My city has its Deacon Dave; … Read More »
The genocide-haters of Glastonbury
1
Jul
Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, aka Mo Chara of Irish rappers, Kneecap, at Glastonbury last week Here’s a piece of advice, its provenance investigated here, traditionally handed down at night school for cub reporters but now adopted with relish by such … Read More »