‘Lord of the Flies’ by Dwayne Booth, aka Mr Fish On October 9 2023, two days after Hamas broke out of what a former chief of Israel’s National Security Council had nineteen years earlier called the world’s largest concentration camp, … Read More »
Sheffield, UK, April 5 2025 It’s too early to tell if recent events, suggestive of Washington frosting out Netanyahu, mark the opening up of a deeper and broader divide between Israel and the underwriter it needs the way you and … Read More »
I don’t post on China half as much as I’d like – events keep getting in the way – but I’ve opined as clearly as I can, in posts like this and this, that its rise offers the only credible … Read More »
The strictly bilateral ceasefire Washington has agreed with Ansar Allah – see previous post – cannot but alarm a Tel Aviv whose nuclear status has no value other than as the bargaining chip of a madman with his back to … Read More »
See also, Those Houthi Missiles Part 1 The situation as I see it: Israel commits brazen genocide on a civilian population coralled in what many sources, some of them Israeli, have called a giant concentration camp. Disregarding the clearest signals, … Read More »
If we could spend five minutes in Gaza without the constant, babbling distractions of these so-called journalists, the truth would be clear. It’s a genocide. It was always a genocide. Lies of omission are a stock in trade when corporate … Read More »
See also, Those Houthi Missiles Part 2 Mosque damaged by a suspected Indian missile attack yesterday near Muzaffarabad in Pakistani Kashmir I’m still processing this new and terrifying escalation in seventy-eight years of hostility between the two states born of … Read More »
Commenting on the May 1st byelections in England – Could the two party Labour and Tory dominated political system be over? – Richard Murphy had this to say of rising support for Nigel Farage’s far right Reform Party: [Labour and … Read More »
There’s a macabre irony playing out today at steel city house. This morning I posted on how profit driven consumerism sees the junk food industries using every trick in the book to do as their tobacco counterparts did, and engineer … Read More »
A near constant of this site is that a once progressive capitalism – the predominant system for organising social relations to produce and daily reproduce the material conditions of human existence – now threatens us and most other life forms … Read More »