Day after tomorrow I’ll be drawing down the shutters at steel city house, handing Tebay over to a kennel in Sheffield’s beautiful Mayfield Valley, and setting off with Jackie to Bristol. There we’ll overnight with the younger of my two … Read More »
LIberalism, even when not wholly blind to modern imperialism, is incapable of seeing the extent of its evil. Millions have been slaughtered on the watch of Bush Snr, Clinton, Bush Jnr, Obama, Trump 1, Biden and Trump 2 – yet … Read More »
Surge capacity means maintaining slack – plant standing idle – to enable a near instant stepping up of arms production when needed. Such wastefulness from a profit-centric standpoint requires levels of state oversight which are anathema to the neoliberal mind. … Read More »
Time and hindsight can bring the kind of clarity which, provided we take care to monitor and continually adjust our evolving understanding in light of new evidence duly reflected on, goes beyond the complacently self-serving. Looking back on over a … Read More »
I guess I like inserting the word ‘stupid’ in post titles. Here’s my reply to a comment by Anne on that of April 14, Blockade: US empire is evil, not stupid! For brevity I’ve omitted her comment, while retaining in block … Read More »
In response to my post of March 21 – Why are America’s rulers allowing this? – American writer and scholar Ed Curtin emailed to say: Trump is not an anomaly except with his mouth, which is planned. He is carrying … 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 »
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 »
Nothing is isolated; everything connected. If I’ve neglected Palestine of late, that’s not all down to surging demand on my time during the most epic few weeks, on the global stage, of my life. Contrary to what many otherwise invaluable … Read More »
Yesterday I offered a short read on the idiots who, from diverse political worldviews – and with levels of enthusiasm ranging from bring it on gung-ho, through peg on nose ‘lesser evil-ism’, to pious condemnations which give slyly de facto … Read More »