Sheffield, UK, April 5 2025 It’s too early to tell if recent events, suggestive of Washington frosting out Netanyahu, mark the opening up of a deeper and broader divide between Israel and the underwriter it needs the way you and … 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 »
I get physically ill watching liberals complain about Donald Trump, instead of what made people desperate enough to vote for him – Reverend Chris Hedges Trump represents greater continuity of foreign policy than either his detractors or admirers recognise – steel city … 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 »
Who by his own hand? Who by his Lady’s command? Who shall I say is calling? Leonard Cohen The US and collective West are in decline: in some countries more rapidly than in others; in some self-accelerated. On the latter, … Read More »
Yesterday morning, in writing my intro to Paul Knaggs’s skewering of one instantiation of the heartless idiocies of Team Starmer, I picked up on Mr Knaggs having quoted Naomi Klein’s splendid work: I can’t recommend Shock Doctrine too highly. It rides the … Read More »
The government can’t say who’s committing fraud or how much it really costs – if they could, they’d be catching the actual fraudsters instead of building a surveillance system to monitor everyone’s bank accounts. They’re using a mathematical model based … Read More »