Propaganda? Not in the West!
21
Jun
Author Archives: steel city scribe
Priti Patel’s threat to British journalists
20
Jun
UK government’s little-known proposed reforms to Britain’s Official Secrets Acts pose far-reaching threats to the media and the public’s right to know. They could land journalists and others in jail for fourteen years for publishing information the government claims damages … Read More »
US slaughters its first amendment
19
Jun
A thousand years of English law whooshed out the window with what this courtroom travesty inflicted on Assange, and scarcely a peep in our cowardly corporate media. Writing yesterday in CounterPunch on how Washington’s deeds show its true regard for … Read More »
With Bibi gone, moderation is restored!
18
Jun
Now that Netanyahu has departed, we anticipate a calmer panorama in the Knesset. Should such men, and women like former Justice Minister – now Interior Minister – Ayelet “Little Snakes” Shaked, show any tendency to excess they will answer to … Read More »
Biden-Putin Summit: rhetoric & realpolitik
18
Jun
On June 15, a day before the Biden-Putin summit two days ago, Moon of Alabama considered two corporate media explanations for there being no joint news conference afterwards … the US did not want to elevate Putin, and/or Putin might … Read More »
When exposing a crime …
15
Jun
Pissing in morse code
13
Jun
In 1960, going on eight, I was a pupil at Ecclesfield Juniors, one of those stone built products of the big push on school building in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the boys’ playground stood the boys’ … Read More »
Maya Forstater wins on appeal!
11
Jun
The institutions that might have been expected to support women’s political organisation have been conspicuous by their absence or active hostility. Amnesty, the Fawcett Society, unions and political parties: all have ignored these women, or been positively hostile … … … Read More »
The late great Michael Hudson!!!
10
Jun
I’m both delighted and embarrassed – more the former – to discover that my news earlier today of economist Michael Hudson’s death was greatly exaggerated. A comment by bevin, below, showed me that I had the wrong Michael Hudson; a political scientist … Read More »