Bolivia’s President Luis Arce with General Juan Jose Zúñiga on the Day of the Army, December 2022. ON TUESDAY Bolivia’s President Luis Arce fired General Zúñiga for threatening to detain former President Evo Morales should he seek another term in … Read More »
I’ve noted from time to time the credulity – I’m being kind here – with which corporate media journalists play their clueless part – there I go again – in relaying Washington’s talking points. I have in mind today the … Read More »
Tuesday, February 20. I’m in London for the Julian Assange extradition hearing, and will post later on that. Meanwhile I sit in the Ice Wharf at Camden Lock, spinning out a half of Abbott as I’m driving today, and making … Read More »
Who’s up for a 9150 word read, for no good reason beyond my recommendation and its subject being a wholly avoidable bloodbath, on whose causes we’ve been lied to by criminals and their useful idiots, and which may yet take … Read More »
Mercifully there are those stubborn souls who, in the face of a propaganda blitz as intense as it is fact-defiant on America’s war against Russia (and ordinary Europeans) in Ukraine, insist on prioritising evidence over narrative. They need no help … Read More »
I’m fond of the motto, improvise and overcome. I use it a lot but maybe it’s time to find a new one. It’s the catch-phrase of Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway, a grizzled veteran who does frequent battle with the US … Read More »
With the world’s eyes on Afghanistan, it’s been easy to overlook the slippage of US authority in its own Latin American backyard. Here’s how a UN vote this July, to end the vicious blockade of Cuba, panned out. In itself … Read More »
Until you realise the Western world is ruled by criminals, and that corporate media’s first loyalty is not to truth but – via market discipline and beneath a show of fiery independence on lesser issues – to those criminals, you … Read More »
What would you do if stuck in a lift with John Pilger? Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, in a new book reviewed here by Media Lens, quotes with approval a fellow journalist saying he’d stick pins in his eyes to … Read More »
THIS POST ALSO FEATURES IN OFFGUARDIAN I won’t beat about the bush. The West is inhabited by two groups: those who know that we are ruled by sociopaths, by the criminally insane; and that much larger group which, taking at face … Read More »