Long before I set up this site in 2015, it had become clear to me that the greatest threat to world peace is the US empire. The White House aide [thought to be Karl Rove] said guys like me were … Read More »
A missile capability on show to traumatised Israelis in response to June 13, together with the prospect of a Hormuz closed by Iranian mines, saw Trump – misled by Netanyahu’s hubris into thinking Iran could be regime-changed by chutzpah, without drawing the … Read More »
Right. Sure guys. Persistent campaigns to deliberately manipulate people’s minds using mass media has no effect on their decisions at all. I guess that’s why that whole “advertising” fad never made any money – Caitlin Johnstone A drum I’ve been banging … Read More »
* Here’s a question. Why do you suppose a Western-vilified DPRK, aka North Korea, hasn’t been bombed or invaded while Middle East state after vilified Middle East state has suffered one or both at the hands of the Empire of … Read More »
Yesterday, in a pub amid the spires and ivory college walls of Cambridge, I tapped out my take on the war so far. It prompted reader Dave Hansell, who should be on a steel city retainer, to supply a link … Read More »
The fog of war is always and necessarily thick but, like banks of cloud viewed from a plane, it shifts in swirling patches which here and there part to bring moments of unexpected clarity. Not everything is anyone’s guess; some … Read More »
Social programs do not die in committee rooms; they die in the realm of justification. Through the threat of looming abandonment by Uncle Sam, German voters will accept that their €49 rail ticket cannot be renewed because the Bundeswehr needs … Read More »
In a preamble to yesterday’s post on the world’s first livestreamed genocide – Gaza: lies and ‘spiritual’ cant – I promised a return, later in the week, to the ultimately related matter of: … America’s proxy war on Russia in … Read More »
I don’t post on China half as much as I’d like – events keep getting in the way – but I’ve opined as clearly as I can, in posts like this and this, that its rise offers the only credible … 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 »