Two posts ago I placed the departure of Victoria Nuland as acting Undersecretary of State in the context of a decades old rift in Washington, between Russia hawks and China hawks. I said her going signalled the strategic defeat of … Read More »
Even while rubber tramping the northwest fens, I was mulling over this abrupt departure. It’s not the first time of course. She also left the State Department in January 2017, when Donald Trump took office with declared intent – soon … Read More »
It’s not just Ukraine, Taiwan and Gaza. From tensions in the Horn of Africa to echoes of Baltic sabotage in the Black Sea – and from Sahel through Bangladesh to repression in Latin America – it is not reductive to say that no major conflict today, hot or cold, … Read More »
Setting aside for now the dismal failure to check neoliberalism’s ongoing and profit-driven war on the natural environment, 2023 will surely be remembered for three things. First, as the year Russia shone a terawatt beam on the limits to US … Read More »
It’s not just Ukraine, Taiwan and Gaza. From tensions in the Horn of Africa to echoes of Baltic sabotage in the Black Sea – and from the Sahel through Bangladesh to bloody repression in Latin America – there is nothing inherently … Read More »
We always have to remember that it’s not just the conflict in Ukraine, it’s not just Gaza, it’s not just Taiwan or the Philippines; all of this is interconnected. Please look at a map. Look at how the US is … Read More »
My sole recommend for this weekend is a podcast. Make a space in your busy life, settle into favourite armchair and, on your super-smart TV, surf to YouTube for sixty-eight minutes fifteen of Bangkok based Brian Berletic in dialogue with … Read More »
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 »