Celebrities are on my mind. My previous steel city scribbling was on Gwynneth Paltrow’s keen advocacy of novel uses for coffee, mugwort tea and jade eggs. The post before that concerned celebrities less stratospheric – Jones, Mason and Monbiot – … Read More »
Am I obsessed by Syria? I see egregious injustice done in our name to its people. I see risk of escalation in America’s refusal to leave a country it, unlike Russia, has not been invited into. I see corporate media … Read More »
Initially put off by the manic tempo of this Russia Today presenter, that response was soon replaced by appreciation of his comic brilliance and, more importantly, the truth of what this American social commentator is saying. See for yourself in … Read More »
this post also features in offguardian I’m worried about George. An admirer of many years standing of his excellent columns charting what John Smith’s even more excellent Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century refers to as “capitalism’s destruction of nature”, I’m … Read More »
Steel City Scribblings coverage of Yemen has been sparse but this excellent piece by Media Lens – so excellent we’ve nicked its opening lines for our masthead – appeared today. The truth of corporate journalism, and the great irony of … Read More »
Good article today by Ricardo Vaz. Writing in CounterPunch, Vaz shows how poorly informed we are by Guardian, BBC, Washington Post and NYT. Actually, ‘poorly informed’ is misleading, implying as it does mere incompetence and ignorance when, as Vaz’s title … Read More »
… on August 31, 1997, that “the people’s princess” was killed by a high speed collision in Paris’s Pont de l’Alma road tunnel. I don’t know whether or not MI5, in cahoots with Sûreté and DGSE, engineered that collision. Neither, I … Read More »
Try as I might to articulate my disgust at what the Guardian really stands for – as opposed to what so many of my too too generous friends believe it stands for – I have never come close to matching … Read More »
This film can no longer be viewed for free. The book on which it is based can be bought here and the film can be viewed on Netflix. This ninety minute documentary, linked below, is the most important film I’ve … Read More »
Tariq Ali was bang on the nail with this term. Does it ever occur to those who deem themselves balanced of view, and well informed – while pitying the poor saps in such as China and Russia where they have, you … Read More »