When I ponder on liberalism at its best (not that I spend a heap of time doing any such thing) I can think of no finer example than Jeffrey Sachs. Like his friend John Mearsheimer – featured in my last … Read More »
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 »
Looking northeast from Swirl Hawse yesterday. Behind and far below lie Levers Water and Coniston’s long exhausted copper mines. To the left the Tilberthwaite Fells, cleaved from Cold Pike and Pike of Bliscoe by unseen Wrynose Pass. On the horizon … Read More »
I concluded Roads to WW3 Part 4: ‘Only connect’ with an observation applicable to all posts in this series: none of earth’s plethora of flash points and weeping sores should be be viewed in isolation. Not Ukraine, not the cancer … Read More »
Roll over Sun Tsu, and tell von Clausewitz the news! Jeffrey Sachs yesterday, in a twenty-two minute dialogue with Danny Haiphong, excoriates Team Trump and Europe’s quislings in equal measure. Starting with this week’s flip-flop on Ukraine – “not tactics … Read More »
Meanwhile the West backs its genocidal beachhead in the Middle East and US warships threaten Venezuela on bogus pretext. At the very least Washington is doubling down on the Monroe Doctrine in the face of rising Chinese and Russian commercial presence … Read More »
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 »