The rentier nature of British capital is revealed by this IPPR report: “Corporate investment has fallen below the rate of depreciation – meaning that our capital stock is falling – and investment in research and development (R&D) is lower than in our … Read More »
Why is there so yawning a gulf between the ways pundits like me, and most of our fellows, see the world? Are our eyes and ears, brains and beating hearts, differently wired? Hardly. Even our points of difference are few … Read More »
Don’t be fooled by the title, “Russia is DESTROYING Ukraine’s Army”. It’s misleading. And not because Russia isn’t doing precisely that but because this video is about something else. Don’t be fooled either by Scott Ritter’s folksy manner. In just … Read More »
Bolivia’s President Luis Arce with General Juan Jose Zúñiga on the Day of the Army, December 2022. ON TUESDAY Bolivia’s President Luis Arce fired General Zúñiga for threatening to detain former President Evo Morales should he seek another term in … Read More »
Two days ago I wrote of … …. mealymouthed and regally ignorant pomposity from a man of whom, within narrow limits and paired with caveats and disclaimers, I often write approvingly … … while further unflattering descriptions were added by … Read More »
… rogue state .. terrorist state .. apartheid state .. racist state .. Jewish supremacist state .. genocidal state … colonial settler state … beachhead for imperialism in the middle east .. As judgments on Israel go, these are all … Read More »
Monday night we camped at Laceby, ten miles southwest of Grimsby, at a carp fishery with a field for tents. I shared the van with Tebay, Jackie the small tent with Jasper. In the morning I emerged from the shower … Read More »
Julian Assange is free. The criminals whose blood-soaked deeds he exposed and who had him locked up for years, many in isolation at one of Britain’s harshest jails, require one last penance of him. In a grotesque but for now … Read More »
Well it happened, more or less. Recall my opening words to a June 3 post, sardonically entitled The military genius of The Economist: This constant escalation can lead to serious consequences. If these serious consequences occur in Europe, how will … Read More »
Are the stewards steering the imperial ship beginning to panic? Take the three hottest arenas of global tension. On Russia’s southwest border the US proxy war is not going at all to plan. That Ukraine is losing does not greatly … Read More »