General Smedley Butler, War is a Racket * If our corporate media were even capable of doing their ostensible job … On many matters ‘quality’ media serve us tolerably well but this truth enables a greater lie. They need to … Read More »
I’m packing boxes in a race against time for the house move on Thursday. Why oh why did the empire choose this of all weeks to strike? I listen to podcasts as I work, read stuff when I can. In … Read More »
February 28, 2026: Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, where a US strike killed over 100 children As in June, the USA went through the motions of negotiating while preparing for a criminal war – I use that … Read More »
Here in the UK a plumber by the name of Hannah Spencer confirmed what many already knew; a century of Labour-Conservative duopoly of government is over. Standing as a Green at the Gorton-Denton byelection two days ago, she overturned a … Read More »
When I left Burton-in-Kendal services just before nine last night, showered and dined, I should have been forty-five minutes tops from my destination and frequent home from home; a small triangle of car park by Waterhead Pier on the northern … Read More »
I had definitive proof a quarter century ago that identity politics’ obsession with terminology … … in just 200 years we’ve progressed all the way from expecting our leaders to slaughter brown-skinned peoples while saying racist things, to expecting our … Read More »
Scope creep. I was supposed to end this series at Part 3 … Reporting back for duty this morning after my weekend away from geostrategic chess, I found in my inbox an offer(ing) I couldn’t refuse. From the pen of Simplicius, … Read More »
Judaists and 7th Day Adventists aside, this week’s sabbath came early with the fire & brimstone sermon I featured yesterday by the Reverend Chris Hedges. Read this Sunday post, then, as day two of my weekend break from viewing geostrategically … Read More »
Chris Hedges, two years ago to the day outside London’s Royal Courts of Justice where Julian Assange’s fate was being decided In his post yesterday, Chris Hedges added little this site hasn’t already said, and left out much that it … Read More »
I ended Is it to be war on Iran? Part 3 – meant to be the last of three – by endorsing the view of Nel Bonilla that the billion dollar question has shifted from “will it be full-on war or … Read More »