Nicolás Maduro two days ago in DEA released footage How can a man as savvy as Richard Murphy is on economics be so clueless on geopolitics? I’ve been asking myself that for four years while watching the man intone the … Read More »
Above and below, US strikes on Caracas – El Pais, January 3 * It’s a measure of the immaturity of the gadfly Andrew Korybko that his response to today’s news, of the criminal act of a criminal empire, was not to … Read More »
On December 5 – Venezuela: follow-through or dial-down? – I provided in single paragraph summaries the arguments for and against the likelihood of American piracy in the Caribbean escalating into full-on war to effect regime change in Caracas. I concluded … Read More »
Unless you’re one of them there coincidence theorists, you might suspect co-ordinated effort to capitalise on Bondi Beach to delegitimise protest at Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. Several of my posts – here and here and here and here – since Sunday have in different ways warned of precisely that. … Read More »
Another AI generated synthesis – I shudder at the implications – in this return, in the context of US thuggery in the Caribbean, to Yanis Varoufakis. This crisp and powerful analysis of the stakes and implications, delivered in a shade … Read More »
Guardian, December 11 2025 Hear John Mearsheimer’s ten minute response to the news of yesterday’s seizure. It’s repetitive, which is not the professor’s style, while occasional strange pauses suggest an AI stitch together. Worth watching all the same, but you … Read More »
My December 5 post – Venezuela: follow through or dial down – weighed competing factors before concluding that America’s ugly show of force in the Caribbean will likely end in a climb-down testing to the limit its narrative managers’ ability … Read More »
I’ve been seeing some choice Alt-media headlines these past few days. Like Caitlin’s World’s most tyrannical government wants to free Venezuela from tyranny, followed the next day by her Sorry if this is antisemitic but I think it’s wrong to … Read More »
Murdoch’s WSJ, November 30 Normally it never would have occurred to the average westerner that a country on the other side of the planet should be invaded and its leader replaced with a puppet regime. That’s not the sort of … Read More »
Three fundamental and interwoven differences separate the outlook of sites like this from the mainstream. One is the latter’s blindness to class rule, a second its blindness to the US empire, the third its belief in news media capacity to … Read More »