[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 »
It’s rare for me to have a good word for Piers Morgan, a combative corporate media interviewer in his way reminiscent of Jeremy Paxman, while I often cite approvingly Professor Mearsheimer. A leading exponent of political realism, his prescient warnings … Read More »
These are momentous times. Lenin’s remark – “there are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen” – never rang truer. Take the past week. We saw – some of us literally – an extraordinary act of sacrifice by … Read More »