An admirer of Pepe Escobar’s well informed writings, I was keen to read his Information Clearing House (ICH) piece yesterday. He begins. Cold War 2.0 has hit South America with a bang – pitting the US and expected minions against … Read More »
Tomorrow at crack of d I head for New Orleans so this is my last post for a while on Venezuela. Or anything else cept alligator shots from the bayou, live jazz from Frenchmen Street and dead footage from St … Read More »
In a footnote to my post of January 27 I wrote: Fence-sitting and having it both ways cascade through liberal media. As Guardian and Observer are vital to Chomsky’s “sophisticated system of propaganda”, so too are house leftists like Owen … Read More »
My writing cost me a friend this week. It happens. Not often, but it always hurts. Then I remind myself that the world does not throw itself at the feet of those who write as I do. I pick myself … Read More »
This post also features in OffGuardian My previous post on Venezuela claimed media on both sides of the Atlantic to have a long and unbroken record of backing US aggression on the global south. Of scores of examples I might … Read More »
This also features in OffGuardian, antidote to corporate media disinfo With Washington talking up a military coup (Democrats for once in no hurry to berate Trump on the issue) and Russia a sufficiently interested party to have flown nuclear capable … Read More »