Highly intelligent analyses, coupled with an easy familiarity with English vernacular – the better to convey matters of political-economy with vivid accuracy – have propelled Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister, to celebrity status on the international Left. A touch … Read More »
Tweeted two days ago by a British GP in the National Health Service. I was alerted to it by Richard Murphy on his Funding the Future blog. But as a comment below the line points out, such sums are pocket … Read More »
Note to self: use video shorts more often. They’d help balance my own output, described by a very bright step daughter I love dearly, despite the IdPol conditioning she shares with my birth daughters, as “hard to understand”. Huckleberry Finn: … Read More »
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Why do I and many of my fellow Britons intend to break the law thirteen days from now, by gathering in London on August 9 to display placards like these? No, not the one held up dead centre by a … Read More »
Long before I set up this site in 2015, it had become clear to me that the greatest threat to world peace is the US empire. The White House aide [thought to be Karl Rove] said guys like me were … Read More »
… and I said nothing because I was not Palestine Action. I’m not political, you see.” Not political. Here’s 25 year old US airman Aaron Bushnell, on FB eighteen months ago … MANY OF US ASK OURSELVES, “WHAT WOULD I … Read More »
Yesterday I was up at 05:30. Nothing odd about that, I’m a dawn animal. But on this grey morn my conscience bothered me. I’d meant to drive to the capital the evening before, then overnight on one of those North … Read More »
A missile capability on show to traumatised Israelis in response to June 13, together with the prospect of a Hormuz closed by Iranian mines, saw Trump – misled by Netanyahu’s hubris into thinking Iran could be regime-changed by chutzpah, without drawing the … Read More »
When I entered this world the USA had been a nuclear power for seven years, the Soviet Union for three. Britain would explode its first device the following month, France and China a few years later. Putting me fair and square … Read More »