In her blog post six days ago, Caitlin Johnstone wrote: The most powerful regime on the planet imprisoning a journalist for journalistic activity is as brazen and obvious an act of tyranny as you could possibly come up with, and … Read More »
A blistering piece appeared yesterday on the World Socialist Website. For once it eschews the “China is no better” trope so often marring WSWS analyses. And for once it doesn’t do that rabbit-from-a-hat trick, in the final or penultimate paragraph, … Read More »
Thanks to my Facebook friend Hoi Yat Tsoi for alerting me to this. Guyana born Hong Kong resident and blogger Daniel Dumbrill debates with US based journalist and former Vietnam veteran Paul Mooney on what is – and what is … Read More »
The River Soar yesterday. What follows is less pretty. I’m promoting three reads here, starting with Caitlin Johnstone’s post today: Humanity Is Still Trying To Be Born Things are fucked. That’s our current situation in a nutshell. In a slightly … Read More »
Yesterday the centre-right Nikkei Asia ran this on its website: Sri Lanka awards port project to China after dropping Japan, India Beijing steps up Belt and Road spending with support of friendly president Shipping containers at the main port of … Read More »
Four days ago on FB, The Economist was plugging its latest attack on Beijing. Click on the image to go to the Facebook post and ensuing comment I responded: That capitalists are subordinate to state policy is horrifying to the … Read More »
Is there no shabby trick too low in the sinophobic outpourings of every segment – ‘quality’ as much as tabloid, financial as much as generalist – of the West’s corporate media? Hong Kong based Nuri Vitachi, cited in my post … Read More »
Begun by Obama’s “pivot to Asia”, the wall to wall demonising of China by Washington and its junior partners, amped up by our not so independent media, continues under POTUS 46. But there are articulate and informed voices of sharp … Read More »
Sunday Times owner Rupert Murdoch sits on the board of Genie Energy: conducting oil drilling in Syria’s Golan Heights, contrary to international law on exploiting an occupied territory’s resources. See this post One of the most important of capitalism’s ideological … Read More »
For reasons too convolutedly tedious to torture you with, my custom of posting, last weekend of the month, a trio of recommended reads fell into abeyance this spring. Shame, that. Several readers have said they liked this feature. I’m not … Read More »