It’s another year, folks …
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Jan
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Author Archives: steel city scribe
Why do we have a mental health crisis?
31
Dec
I ended yesterday’s post, on the West’s economic decline, by speaking of a rapidly growing constituency, obliged by a once progressive capitalism to sell its labour but now increasingly unable – thanks to manufacturing having gone south, and to automations … Read More »
Notes on the West’s economic decline
30
Dec
The year now ending saw a record number of elections in the West. In not one of them did the decline of Western supremacy feature. Like the proverbial elephant, it was addressed by neither America’s duopoly nor Britain’s. The same … Read More »
Syria: will Turkiye prove the big winner?
27
Dec
Nine days ago, in Syria glimpsed through the fog of war, I spoke of: … the well meaningly clueless, and the less well meaningly calculating, [who] celebrate the fall of the region’s last Ba’athist government to Turkish, Israeli and Western … Read More »
Will China Just Stop Oil?
25
Dec
I wrote seven days ago, apropos the fall of the Middle East’s last Ba’athist government, that as Palestinian resistance is weakened by the cutting off of arms flows to Hezbollah, so too is Iran – its desired fall the crown … Read More »
Jack is looking at Anne …
23
Dec
Brain teaser. Jack is looking at Anne, but Anne is looking at George. Jack is married, but George is not. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person? A: Yes B: No C: Cannot be determined The answer is … Read More »
On controlling the narrative
19
Dec
Commenting today on news that New York prosecutors have charged Luigi Mangione with “murder as an act of terrorism” over the shooting of health insurance CEO Brian Thompson, Caitlin Johnstone writes: … the label “terrorist” is a tool of narrative control, … Read More »
Syria glimpsed through the fog of war
18
Dec
While the well meaningly clueless, and the less well meaningly calculating, celebrate the fall of the region’s last Ba’athist government to Turkish, Israeli and Western backed terrorists risibly referred to as “rebels”, this post offers the views of three men … Read More »
Did the empire strike back in Syria?
16
Dec
The unipolar moment is no more and Western powers now rely on certified terrorists to help them achieve short-term Pyrrhic victories. Even as the loud cheers still echo, there’s no reason to believe the misadventure in Syria will be worth … Read More »
On Syria, chess, and Nat King Cole
14
Dec
When I say I was wrong about Syria, I don’t mean I’ve at last acknowledged Bashar al-Assad to be the monster depicted by an empire-serving propaganda blitz for which ‘universalists’ Owen Jones and George Monbiot gave left-liberal cover. While I’ve … Read More »