Guardian, July 9 2024 Let’s start with the hypocrisy. Gordon Brown, in Tuesday’s Guardian, wants Vladimir Putin in the dock for war crimes. This from a senior member of a government whose lies led Britain into an illegal war which … Read More »
Julian Assange is free. The criminals whose blood-soaked deeds he exposed and who had him locked up for years, many in isolation at one of Britain’s harshest jails, require one last penance of him. In a grotesque but for now … Read More »
This constant escalation can lead to serious consequences. If these serious consequences occur in Europe, how will the US behave, bearing in mind our parity in the field of strategic weapons? Hard to say. Do they want global conflict? Vladimir … Read More »
Why Celebrities Aren’t Speaking Up About Gaza Caitlin Johnstone, 711 words Fame and fortune come from elevation by film studio, record label and TV oligarchs – people with a vested interest in the status quo on which their wealth is … Read More »
Short, lucid and pithily on point. Jonathan Cook, ousted by his onetime Guardian employer for criticising Israel, spells out the murderous cynicism informing the WashingtonSpeak, dutifully relayed by media stenographers, of “peace proposals” whose inevitable “failure” will be spun as … Read More »
[ezcol_2third][/ezcol_2third] [ezcol_1third_end]“I don’t know if there’s a word for when a government does something evil and then churns out a bunch of easily disprovable lies with the understanding that by the time those lies are debunked public attention will have … Read More »
When, around six-thirty pm on March 27, I posted Maria Zhakarova’s tweeted response (below) to the Julian ruling, I knew her only through her media statements as Kremlin spokeswoman – she does not care for “spokesperson” – at the Foreign … Read More »
The Economist today, March 25 2024 It gets boring I know. Sometimes I bore myself but I can’t overstate the importance of taking it to heart that on matters crucial to the oligarchs who beneath a chimera of democracy rule … Read More »
Guardian, March 18, 2024. Click image to access story CNN, March 18, 2024. Click image to access story In 2023 Michael Hudson published The Collapse of Antiquity, its thesis that in the early Sumer civilisation a new king cancelled debt. … Read More »
Touched on in my post of March 2 – Gaza to Rochdale – was a sensational New York Times “scoop” on rape, allegedly weaponised by Hamas on October 7. This image opened the NYT story – “Screams without words”: How Hamas … Read More »