Spotted on Facebook and reproduced here in abridged form, these seem existential insights but I have to ask: which form of society has taken one side of our dual nature, as individuated yet social animals, further than any other? Inability … Read More »
From Rostov-on-Don … And quiet purred the Don …
My previous post, on Roderic Day’s 7,000 word response to allegations of China’s persecution of its Muslim Uighur population, contains the following: Polling of Chinese citizenry by Dalia Research reveals that “73% of Chinese consider China to be democratic whereas … Read More »
Silence? What silence? Few things are more predictable than the demonising by corporate media of ‘regimes’ which obstruct, directly or indirectly, the will of Wall Street. But while the general truth of this may be acknowledged within intellectual circles, its applicability to … Read More »
Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Oops – did I say Russia? My bad. I meant of course the USA. * And before Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Here’s Major-General Smedley-Butler in 1933. * * *
For socialists and internationalists (and how can you be the one without being the other?) the only thing more dismaying than the ability of ‘our’ power-serving media to whip The People into a frenzy of Orwellian loathing for manufactured bêtes … Read More »
It’s a fundamental with me that whomever ‘our’ media, debased for reasons given many times on this site – here for instance – vilify or sanctify, I take a good hard look at them. And when I do, I ask: … Read More »
This from WSWS today. Just a minor chapter in the ongoing story of imperialism in the twenty-first century. Iraq, Libya, Syria? Nothing to do with oil! Smearing a left-leaning Evo Morales as a ‘statutory rapist’? Nothing to do with Bolivia … Read More »
Think me an extremist on what is being done to Syria in our name? Hear the former Republican Senator for Virginia, Dick Black, a fortnight ago at the Schiller Institute. I’m posting in full here (transcript below) because the facts-are-sacred … Read More »
By middle of March a pair of magpies were nest building in a cherry tree at foot of our garden, two metres from a three-storey house whose east facing end wall overlooks the back of ours. That wall shelters the … Read More »