To anyone observing the rise of China – and more of us should be – it has been evident for well over a decade that Western financial media have descended into self parody on the subject. The outlets best known … Read More »
Has the penny dropped? Has the abundance of irrefutable evidence showing the USA to be, by a colossal margin, the most dangerous power on earth finally prevailed over the propaganda – at once both childishly fact-defiant and the most sophisticatedly … Read More »
Of late I’ve done a slew of reading and want to share some of it, though I’m spoiled for choice. Fine pieces from Naked Capitalism, Caitlin Johnstone, Andrew Korybko, Simplicius the Thinker, Moon of Alabama and Michael Roberts to name … Read More »
A few snippets from Caitlin today: People tell me, “If you lived in Russia or China you’d be thrown in prison for talking the way you do.” If I lived in Russia or China I’d still be focusing all my … Read More »
For some time I’ve been hammering away at the point that China’s capitalists are subordinate to the state, while in the West the reverse applies. My aim is not to counter mainstream media propaganda, predictably immense and ceaseless; upmarket no … Read More »
This morning I read two short pieces before I’d even had coffee. The first, in the Daily Express – Londoner speaks out after stunning Just Stop Oil zealot into silence with ingenious offer – opened with this: A London commuter … Read More »
Earlier this week I promised: … three discussions which progressively widen the focus: from Alex Mercouris on Kiev’s much heralded spring counter-offensive, through Brian Berletic on strategic aspects of Washington’s war on Russia, to Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai on … Read More »
Most hawks have no military experience, much less in combat, and seem pathologically aggressive: Bolton, Pompeo, Biden, Nulan, Rubio. Like spoiled children whom they closely approximate, they will throw hissy fits if they don’t get their way. Here I am … Read More »
“Through their own words, sang Sinead O’Connor in The Emperor’s new clothes, “they shall be exposed.” It’s sadly the case that the overwhelming majority of Westerners still have not caught on to the truth – once seen, never unseen – that … Read More »
While taking on the belligerent idiocy of the Observer’s Simon Tisdall two weeks ago, I blamed his elephant-in denialism – and that of his employer and corporate mass media at large – re the existence of the US Empire. The … Read More »