I don’t post on China half as much as I’d like – events keep getting in the way – but I’ve opined as clearly as I can, in posts like this and this, that its rise offers the only credible … Read More »
* Part 1 set the context for Trump’s tariff mayhem in US elites having for decades found it more profitable to shift manufacturing to the global south, while transforming the domestic economy into one led by interest yielding FIRE – … Read More »
A week ago Chris Hedges introduced a guest on his YouTube channel with these sombre words: The final stages of capitalism, Karl Marx wrote, will be marked by developments intimately familiar. Unable to expand, and generate profits at past levels, … Read More »
I get physically ill watching liberals complain about Donald Trump, instead of what made people desperate enough to vote for him – Reverend Chris Hedges It’s difficult to get a man to see a truth his salary depends on him not … Read More »
Remind me. Which country has waged virtually non stop wars for more than two centuries? Which one devastated the Middle East in the name of – take you pick – a war on terror which massively amplified and weaponised the … Read More »
Reactions in Western media have been predictable. As the innovations of a pint-size Chinese AI outfit – innovations imposed (necessity being the mother of invention) by US sanctions on high end chips to China – wipe $billions off Silicon Valley/Wall … Read More »
WSJ Tuesday January 28 2025 – more here * I sure did take my eye off the ball on this one! I’d thought DeepSeek a sex position, like cowgirl or doggie, till yesterday afternoon. Returning from stroll, sandwich and pint … Read More »
My December 14 post, On Syria, chess, and Nat King Cole, generated this three-way exchange below the line. I’m dressed in a rather fetching red: You really think [Assad] a good man? A kind leader? At least read Syrian Gulag … Read More »
The year now ending saw a record number of elections in the West. In not one of them did the decline of Western supremacy feature. Like the proverbial elephant, it was addressed by neither America’s duopoly nor Britain’s. The same … Read More »
I wrote seven days ago, apropos the fall of the Middle East’s last Ba’athist government, that as Palestinian resistance is weakened by the cutting off of arms flows to Hezbollah, so too is Iran – its desired fall the crown … Read More »