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Category Archives: china rising

Another something for the weekend …

17 Nov

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 »

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Xi meets Biden – an economist’s take

16 Nov

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 »

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Is there a way out of the dark?

5 Oct

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 »

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Three weekend reads on amnesia

23 Sep

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 »

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The global tyrant

25 Aug

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 »

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Russia’s banking system and the West’s

10 Aug

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 »

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The most effective propaganda is subtle

19 Jul

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 »

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On Russia leaving the neoliberal West

21 Apr

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 »

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War over Taiwan? A gorgeous stupidity!

17 Apr

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 »

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WW3? A matter of chips freedom!

12 Apr

“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 »

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last 350 posts (most recent first)

  • Yvette Cooper takes to The Observer
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  • September 6 – next mass defiance
  • Palestine Action – “Yvette is lying”
  • Britain is broke?!? That’s absurd …
  • Do the UK cops want the ban lifted?
  • Ursula – “in Russia you’d be arrested!”
  • Yesterday in Parliament Square, London
  • Palestine Action? Meet Lord Dannatt!
  • Dutch authorities: “Israel a state threat”
  • Palestine Action: Craig Murray reports
  • A Ukraine update
  • 7/10/23. What was Israel supposed to do?
  • Roger Waters meets Chris Hedges
  • It’s the economy, stupid!
  • Will ‘Your Party’ fall to IdPol? Ask Mr Pye!
  • Palestine Action set to challenge UK ban
  • So little. And so-o late …
  • Trump dictates terms to VDL
  • Gaza: the Golgotha and the Stalingrad …
  • Sweeteners for Streeting
  • Paul Mason: “crack-smokingly inaccurate”
  • Francesca – “this speaks to who they are”
  • Ex UN chief on why Gaza is starving
  • Road to WW3. Part 3: capturing minds
  • Date for Brits against genocide: August 9
  • “First they came for Palestine Action …
  • Rain did not stop play protest
  • Road to WW3. Part 2: 12 day war
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  • Road to WW3. Part 1: Iran
  • “Don’t mention the dead children!“
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  • Affirmation? From the criminally insane?
  • Wishful thinking at The Economist. Again.
  • Richard Murphy on neoliberal academia
  • Israel’s crimes: too depraved to be true?
  • To Kill a War Machine – update
  • The British in Palestine, 1936-1939
  • “We were the Nazis, they the Jews”
  • The genocide-haters of Glastonbury
  • The “Jew-haters” of Glastonbury
  • A little more on June 13 and all that
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  • June 13 was a game changer
  • No one has the right to abandon Gaza
  • Bibi accuses Haaretz of “Blood Libel”
  • So Palestine Action are terrorists?
  • Ceasefire schmeasefire!
  • Why Iran? Context & Consequences
  • The war so far …
  • Iran is not backing down
  • This won’t be a short war (nukes aside)
  • “Israel’s strategy leads to nuclear war”
  • All eyes are now on America
  • “Demand an end to this madness!”
  • Israel is a US proxy, not its puppet master
  • “The planet is hostage to a death cult”
  • One more on the US-Israeli war on Iran
  • Iranian nukes? It’s regime change, stupid!
  • Israel needs Iran to strike back …
  • Iran goes soixante-neuf
  • Iran in the empire’s cross-hairs
  • Global Delinquents in Syria: Part 1 of 2
  • War on Iran? A monumental folly!
  • Greta Thunberg: kidnap on the high seas
  • Gaza. French is “sorry”, Dylan “too clever”
  • The dangerous idiocy of Piers Morgan
  • In praise of MADNESS
  • Russia’s Pearl Harbour? I think not …
  • Keir Starmer: a dead man walking
  • Gaza – what can I do FFS?!?
  • Ukraine: a NATO division of labour (b)
  • Ukraine: a NATO division of labour (a)
  • Gaza – lies and ‘spiritual’ cant
  • Yes – it really is a genocide!
  • 3 for Sunday: Gaza, Trump, Doug Murray
  • US Embassy shootings: the gunman’s tale
  • Lowkey on “corporate capture” at the BBC
  • Gaza – hats off to Gary Lineker!
  • London: “No ‘both sides’ to a genocide!”
  • Norway boycotts the rogue state
  • After 19 months of war crimes, The Independent says it’s “time to speak up”
  • Who said (war) crime doesn’t pay?
  • Three Sunday shorts on China
  • On Israel the tide is turning
  • Those Houthi missiles: Part 2
  • Omit, obfuscate, gaslight: BBC on Gaza
  • Those Houthi missiles: Part 1
  • Electoral reform – an aspirin for cancer
  • Feed Gaza, just feed Gaza …
  • Fat is a socialist issue
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  • Don’t ever say “fuck Israel, free Palestine”
  • Method in madness; Trump’s tariffs Part 4
  • Method in madness; Trump’s tariffs Part 3
  • Israel is About to Empty Gaza
  • Method in madness; Trump’s tariffs Part 2
  • Method in madness: Trump’s tariffs Part 1
  • The far right will blame the Jews
  • UN: “Israel rapes its Palestinian hostages”
  • Bath & the Somerset Levels
  • Do you think we’ll get away with this?
  • Palestine Rally in Sheffield in pictures
  • Fighting talk from the EU: Part 3
  • Fighting talk from the EU: Part 2
  • Genocide: the last chapter
  • “We are alone. Nobody cares”
  • Trump does not seek peace in Ukraine
  • A Ukraine timeline
  • Yanis: Europe’s dream is dead
  • Fighting talk from the EU: Part 1
  • Islamist terror grips “liberated” Syria
  • Syria’s Kristallnacht
  • Trump as backstabber: a myth is born!
  • On Zelensky’s ordeal at the Oval Office
  • Look what they did to Syria, ma …
  • For Gaza the future is bright!
  • Because I object to genocide …
  • Bibi & Co have zero interest in a ceasefire
  • Ukraine: Trump’s good cop to Biden’s bad
  • Team Trump stuns Europe’s leaders
  • We are a grandfather
  • Media collusion in genocide
  • Israel – what can a poor girl do?
  • All mouth and no Baltic trousers
  • Burbage Rocks today
  • Trump throws Zelensky onto the third rail
  • More on USAID and narrative control
  • So Trump is to cancel USAID?
  • Ukrainian gun crime and the legacy of war
  • Gloves off in Gaza
  • Owen Jones on Sir Keir Starmer
  • In the park today
  • The western way of genocide
  • Trump’s Iron Dome: Rods from God
  • DeepSeek – and Mandy Rice-Davies
  • Silicon Valley just got DeepSeeked!
  • Owen Jones on Team Starmer
  • US decline – what’s Trump gonna do?
  • 16 scintillating minutes on “austerity”
  • The heartless idiocies of Team Starmer
  • Two new takes on the Heart of Darkness
  • What is to be done?
  • “Donald Trump is the empire unmasked”
  • Western values
  • Saturday’s Palestine rally in London
  • Gaza ceasefire: what did Trump tell Bibi?
  • The economic illiteracy of Rachel Reeves
  • Israel has failed on every front
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  • Thursday on Cat Bells
  • Syria’s new justice minister
  • On the state we’re in
  • Galloway on Assad. Damo on Starmer
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  • It’s another year, folks …
  • Why do we have a mental health crisis?
  • Notes on the West’s economic decline
  • Syria: will Turkiye prove the big winner?
  • Will China Just Stop Oil?
  • Jack is looking at Anne …
  • On controlling the narrative
  • Syria glimpsed through the fog of war
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  • On Syria, chess, and Nat King Cole
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  • Vanessa Beeley weeps for Syria
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  • Westerners who trust too much
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  • Oreshnik – checkmate, or Armageddon?
  • What the Oreshnik strike signifies
  • Ukraine and the escalation ladder
  • Hands up if you think Russia is bluffing
  • Porter Valley in ice and snow
  • Thus spake Queen Ursula …
  • ICC throws both UK and EU a curve ball
  • Five things to know about Kiev’s ATACMS
  • Words from the heart on genocide
  • Three Sunday shorts …
  • Babies, bathwater and Rachel Reeves
  • This was no Kristallnacht II …
  • Gaslit in Amsterdam/Trump foreign policy
  • A rubber tramp in Redcar – again
  • A republican clean sweep
  • Russia is winning, Israel is not
  • The rise and fall of Alejandro Toledo
  • Will the real Israel stand up?
  • 3 Sunday shorts on the Middle East
  • The Empire strikes back (kind of)
  • US Neocons & Israel’s far Right: Part 4
  • “I’m overwhelmed with shame”
  • US Neocons & Israel’s far Right: Part 3
  • Torched in Gaza: Western ‘civilisation’
  • No, we are NOT the good guys
  • US Neocons & Israel’s far Right: Part 2
  • The West’s silent majority is wrong!
  • US Neocons & Israel’s far Right: Part 1
  • Baerbock backs butchery in Gaza
  • Burned alive for a Greater Israel
  • Middle East, ecocide, imperialism
  • Does Israel have a death wish?
  • They shoot children, don’t they?
  • Roger Waters on Us and Them
  • The October 7 industry
  • A year and a day after October 7
  • Ukraine’s far right: an obstacle to peace
  • Does Israel dictate US foreign policy?
  • As Iran and Israel stand at the brink …
  • Not rockets, Michael – missiles
  • Iran strikes Israel. What now?
  • Israel as the end-times fanatics see it
  • Nasrallah’s murder – reckoning the cost
  • Weekend fare
  • For The Economist, war is peace!
  • What is Hezbollah?
  • Starmer’s loathsome “2019” jibe
  • 15 reasons to support Israeli genocide!
  • More IDF war crimes? Our media yawn.
  • US v China: zero sum or we win/you win?
  • John Mearsheimer – meet Jeffrey Sachs!
  • The children who rule the West
  • The Super Mario plan for Europe
  • The West’s poltroons and Quislings
  • Gaslit to Armageddon
  • Filmed theatre review: Prima Facie
  • The betrayal of liberalism
  • By their own words shall ye know them
  • Early autumn on Arran
  • Musings on Ukraine and Gaza
  • “Never Again” – a registered trademark
  • The iniquities of Enid Blyton
  • No harbour for genocide – literally!
  • Finkelstein: “no safe place in Gaza”
  • Release (ALL) the hostages now!
  • Joe Sacco on compassionate genocide
  • Britain is broken, but how to fix it?
  • DNC oblivious to nuclear nightmare
  • Ukrainian lone wolf did Nordstream!
  • Clueless Keir says WW3. Genocide Joe says no.
  • On my travel bucket list – North Korea
  • I heard there was a secret chord cord
  • Give peace a chance!
  • Film review: The Zone of Interest
  • Britain’s Islamophobia Cooked
  • From Middle East to mushroom cloud
  • How far to WW3, sir?
  • FBI raids the home of Scott Ritter
  • Stupid arguments for genocide #6784
  • On Ismail Haniyeh’s murder in Tehran
  • The Wrong Trousers!
  • Mehdi Hasan on Bibi’s Capitol gaslighting
  • Caitlin on Bibi’s speech to US Congress
  • Labour to keep 500,000 infants in poverty
  • Tough choice: which Zombie President?
  • Scott Ritter: “NATO is screwed”
  • “Europe aside, the world wants Trump”
  • Back home and catching up
  • Beach scenes in Suffolk
  • Modi in Moscow … that hospital in Kiev
  • Gordon is a moron gaslighter for NATO
  • Labour’s love-bombing lobbyists
  • Yes, IDF did apply Hannibal on October 7
  • Reinforcing failure: sign of empire decline
  • Starmer, missed steps and misused terms
  • Russia: Muslim Regions ban the niqab
  • Britain’s rulers anoint Starmer’s Labour
  • Always look on the green side of life!
  • What kind of Britain votes tomorrow?
  • The car in front is Chinese and electric
  • Think you have Putin’s number, huh?
  • Coups ain’t wot they used to be …
  • UK election: the fox and henhouse
  • Israel’s collapsing political economy
  • Morning stroll at Grimsby Fish Docks
  • Britain’s shame as Julian is freed
  • Does WW3 begin on a Crimea beach?
  • When empires start to panic …
  • If we did to you what you did to us …
  • Mr Putin goes to Hanoi
  • Mr Putin goes to Pyongyang
  • Zelensky ‘peace terms’ … Bibi’s ‘shrink’
  • Cleethorpes and Tetney Marsh yesterday
  • Putin sets out Russia’s peace terms
  • “Russia is now the world’s 4th largest economy” – World Bank
  • Last Supper at the G7?
  • “Anti-Semitism crisis”? A genocidal lie!
  • France is not Spain, nor Macron Sanchez
  • Steel City garden
  • Ukraine: Russia’s escalatory options
  • Where might Zelensky store his F-16s?
  • The Guardian Media Group warmongers
  • Ukraine: Russia has escalatory dominance
  • Owen Jones vs Israel war crimes apologist
  • Gaza: four shorts on the Strip
  • Moscow does not make idle threats
  • US State Department seizes Scott Ritter’s passport at JFK en route to Russia
  • The military genius of The Economist
  • Should Trump be in jail? Of course!
  • What if it was your child under the rubble?
  • Come you masters of war …
  • Talking WW3 Blues. (Somebody has to.)
  • Why no stars on Gaza? (and other reads)
  • “Mass rape by Hamas” – a truly evil lie
  • Legally killed children
  • Democracy on the eve of Armageddon
  • Assange ruling: a Guardian response
  • Benjamin Netanyahu is absolutely right!
  • Pulpit Rock on Constitution Day
  • Sunday on the fjord
  • Gaza and the student protests
  • Ukraine: will our leaders’ folly kill us all?
  • The train from Oslo to Bergen
  • The US-Israel game plan for Gaza
  • The new McCarthyism cries “anti-Semite”
  • Gen Z against genocide!
  • Isle of Mull in April
  • McGregor on Ukraine, and Israel-Iran
  • Why would Israel “go berserk”?
  • Iran’s message to Israel – new rules!
  • Two takes on one-upmanship
  • Does Washington want war with Iran?
  • Mass murder and the shelf-life of lies
  • Red line on genocide
  • Brilliant! Guyana president skewers BBC presenter over the West’s oil hypocrisy
  • Would France take us into WW3?
  • Murder in Moscow: USA as prime suspect
  • Ukraine – does the US have a Plan B?
  • An African hears Dylan for the first time
  • Aaron who?
  • Maria Zhakarova: FREE JULIAN ASSANGE!
  • Russia and the art of war
  • Jeffrey Sachs meets Piers Morgan
  • Ukraine – how will history judge?
  • Atrocity in Moscow, HEP strikes in Ukraine
  • Russia’s triumph goes beyond Ukraine
  • So Evil Putin rigged the vote. Really?
  • Let the Sunshine in!
  • Did Hamas weaponise sexual violence?
  • Generalising from personal experience
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