Some of us lost friends over our “extremist” opposition to the dirty war on Syria. I stand by my post of eight years ago: Monbiot, Syria and Universalism. Any of us can get it wrong. I’ve been spectacularly so at times … Read More »
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Believe me, I get how frustrating the selective stupidity of brainwashed humanity can be for we who see that we are ruled by criminals, lied to by our media on stuff that matters, and led down the garden path by … Read More »
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Introducing the Richard Murphy piece replicated below, Naked Capitalism’s Conor Gallagher says this: According to the Kiel Institute, the UK has shovelled 19.266 billion euros into the corrupt hole of death that is Ukraine, which is always worth remembering when elites … Read More »
Like a stopped clock right twice a day, even a Guardian much criticised on this site – here and here for instance – managed a decent cartoon by Ella Barton on the mass arrests at London’s Parliament Square on Saturday … Read More »
“In just 200 years we’ve progressed all the way from expecting our leaders to slaughter brown skinned people while saying racist things, to expecting our leaders to slaughter brown skinned people while condemning racism” – Caitlin Johnstone I opened a … Read More »
It is undoubtedly true that our universities are in crisis. But that crisis is not just financial. It is existential. They have helped create the conditions for their own decline by swallowing the neoliberal promise of efficiency, competition and ‘value … Read More »
Smart people know not all Jews are Zionists. Smart people who do their homework know too that not all Zionists are Jews. Keep this in mind if, like me, you’ve been dazedly picking yourself off the floor courtesy Piers Morgan’s … Read More »
A drawing room in the west wing at Steel City House Concluding my review last year of a movie based on a Martin Amis novel about the Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, who live with their family … Read More »