On a tip off from reader Nick Hefferman, a few posts back, I’m reading Aaron Good’s American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. It does what it says on the tin – or, six chapters in, holds out every promise … Read More »
Three video shorts, average duration twelve minutes, hand-picked by The Steel City Elders for your enlightenment and ongoing edification. They begin with the significance of Kazakhstan, western neighbour to Xinjiang, north-eastern neighbour to Afghanistan and scene of the failed US … 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 »
… you don’t need enemies. I’m hardly the first to point this out though. Henry Kissinger beat me to it more than half a century ago with his claim that “to be an enemy of the USA is dangerous, but … Read More »
The region is one of the richest in the world in terms of natural resources, including oil, gold and uranium . However, the Sahel, a semi-arid region, is one of the poorest and most environmentally degraded in the world. For … Read More »
Not just French but Western leaders at large now agonise over how to respond to the coup in Niger which toppled their pet leader – their comprador – there. Needless to say, the West’s media speak with one voice to … Read More »
Congolese soldiers in the forest, 2018, as the civil war spill-over from the Rwanda nightmare continues to haunt the DRC I’ve had liberals, believing themselves well informed by Economist, WSJ. Business Insider et al, patiently explain to me that Western … Read More »
As argued in a recent post, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and associated projects like the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank which now gives the global south an alternative to the punitive terms of IMF/World Bank loans, have lifted hundreds of … Read More »
Just another tale from the archives of US democracy in action. Craig Brittain, who last year ran for Arizona Senator as a Republican, was former owner of a website – IsAnyoneDown dot com – which posted nude pictures of women … Read More »
This from WSWS today. Just a minor chapter in the ongoing story of imperialism in the twenty-first century. Iraq, Libya, Syria? Nothing to do with oil! Smearing a left-leaning Evo Morales as a ‘statutory rapist’? Nothing to do with Bolivia … Read More »