Mosque damaged by a suspected Indian missile attack yesterday near Muzaffarabad in Pakistani Kashmir I’m still processing this new and terrifying escalation in seventy-eight years of hostility between the two states born of sunset on the Raj. Such are our … Read More »
Commenting on the May 1st byelections in England – Could the two party Labour and Tory dominated political system be over? – Richard Murphy had this to say of rising support for Nigel Farage’s far right Reform Party: [Labour and … Read More »
There’s a macabre irony playing out today at steel city house. This morning I posted on how profit driven consumerism sees the junk food industries using every trick in the book to do as their tobacco counterparts did, and engineer … Read More »
A near constant of this site is that a once progressive capitalism – the predominant system for organising social relations to produce and daily reproduce the material conditions of human existence – now threatens us and most other life forms … Read More »
Middle East Eye, March 31 2025 * Last Friday Jonathan Cook wrote with his customary lucidity on yet another Gaza war crime; the March 31 slaughter in a hail of gunfire of fifteen uniformed Palestinian medics, their ambulances clearly marked … Read More »
The Independent yesterday: Sharon Osbourne has called for the Irish rap group Kneecap to have their US work visas revoked after their politicised Coachella performance. The trio – who starred in their own self-titled Bafta-winning film in 2024 – displayed a … Read More »
* Part 1 set the context for Trump’s tariff mayhem in US elites having for decades found it more profitable to shift manufacturing to the global south, while transforming the domestic economy into one led by interest yielding FIRE – … Read More »
A week ago Chris Hedges introduced a guest on his YouTube channel with these sombre words: The final stages of capitalism, Karl Marx wrote, will be marked by developments intimately familiar. Unable to expand, and generate profits at past levels, … Read More »
American pastor and journalist Chris Hedges in London for the final Julian Assange hearing, February 2024 What do Israel and Washington believe will happen when the Palestinians are expelled from a land they have lived in for centuries? How do … Read More »
I get physically ill watching liberals complain about Donald Trump, instead of what made people desperate enough to vote for him – Reverend Chris Hedges It’s difficult to get a man to see a truth his salary depends on him not … Read More »