Who remembers “press button A”?
30
Aug
Author Archives: steel city scribe
Engels on the ‘graveyard of empires’
29
Aug
How’s this for your Sunday read? A splendid account, detailed but never dry, of Afghanistan’s people and history. First published in The New American Cyclopaedia, Vol. I, 1858 – and in 2005 transcribed by Andy Blunden at www.marxists.org – its author needs no introduction, though the … Read More »
Did China abandon socialism?
28
Aug
Tom Fowdy writes in RT, August 27: It’s wrong to say China is heading for socialism: it never abandoned it Western coverage of events in China is highlighting a lurch leftwards by Xi Jinping. But this misunderstands Beijing’s approach and … Read More »
Pear Jam Miles
28
Aug
The Boss nailed it: Got in a little hometown jam … I was bought in the USA, I was bought in the USA … Capitalism – it’s an institute you can’t disparage. *
What about the squaddies in Afghanistan?
28
Aug
Last night I watched for the second time an episode of Accused, the 2010 series from the pen of Jimmy McGovern, now on Netflix. Here’s an abridged Wiki synopsis of Frankie’s Story: Frankie and Peter join the army to get … Read More »
Panda cub won’t take a hint
27
Aug
https://www.facebook.com/ipandacom/videos/1242620132488813/
Flee Kabul for just $6.5k
26
Aug
Wall Street Journal, August 25: Erik Prince is no stranger to monetising human suffering. He founded Blackwater, whose antics in Baghdad in 2007 drew down a search beam on the world of Western ‘security’ firms in post invasion Iraq. These … Read More »
Covid’s boost to Big Pharma
26
Aug
Capitalist pharmacy produces suboptimal health outcomes, if not outright harm. Seeing the problem as production for private profit, under governments led by plutocrats, is the first step to a solution. A second is seeing that planned production by publicly owned … Read More »
Who checks the ‘fact checkers’?
24
Aug
My two links are, respectively, to this post and this one. *
Xinjiang and the square root of FA
24
Aug
The real Xinjiang story is not so difficult to understand: The rise of Xi Jinping and the Belt & Road Initiative posed a serious challenge to American supremacy much earlier than they were expecting, so the US amped up their … Read More »