I can envisage no scenario in which things do not get much worse, in the west at least, before they get better. Broken: the implicit contract between ruler and ruled Washington and its criminally complicit allies didn’t have to lose their … Read More »
It’s tempting I know. The horrors are indescribable, yet describe them we must. To face them is sickening, yet face them we must. To bear witness in the full knowledge we can do nothing – so much for the democracy … Read More »
The Daily Mail caption reads: “Footage shared by Israeli media appears to show IDF troops rounding up scores of men and transporting them on the back of trucks” Following my last post but one, here’s a little more on those … Read More »
Newsweek, December 5 2023. Click on the screen grab to access the story Contrary to Western expectations 22 months ago – Marxist no less than mainstream – Russia will not only win the war the collective West had for decades … Read More »
An Israeli police officer and Palestinian women in Hebron, last year In many aspects of life the lesser details can be as telling as the most eye catching. So it is with those smaller manifestations of racialised oppression in Palestine, … Read More »
While staff at my erstwhile employer Sheffield Hallam University urge it – in vain I’m sure, for the reasons given here – to condemn the genocide unfolding before the world’s eyes exactly as promised by the Israeli state, Caitlin Johnstone has … Read More »
Judas kiss? Benjamin Netanyahu greets Joe Biden at Ben Gurion airport, October 18 In a previous post – Hamas attacks: another 9/11? – I voiced my openness to the possibility of said attacks being a false flag. In a subsequent … Read More »
Staff at Sheffield Hallam have sent the following signed letter to university executives. Letter to the University Leadership Team At this moment, Israeli forces are engaged in an explicitly genocidal assault on the whole population of Gaza. The death toll … Read More »
It’s not just Ukraine, Taiwan and Gaza. From tensions in the Horn of Africa to echoes of Baltic sabotage in the Black Sea – and from the Sahel through Bangladesh to bloody repression in Latin America – there is nothing inherently … Read More »
The daily posts of British MMT pundit and tax specialist Richard Murphy fall a long way short – in range, depth and analytic power – of the writings of American political economist and debt specialist, Michael Hudson. Why compare them? … Read More »