The needless darkness of this world can get to the best of us – even Jonathan Cook, a writer I hold in the highest esteem and who has always eschewed showy prose in favour of quiet but forceful reason. I … Read More »
Guardian, December 11, 2025 * Sometimes linguistic nuances matter. (Ask the ghost of Derek Bentley.) What did the Guardian mean by London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig ? That the image is unquestionably antisemitic … 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 »
China decisively played the rare-earth card. America is too dependent, too vulnerable. Ultimately, it had to compromise. But this raises the deeper question: why did the U.S. walk willingly into a self-made trap? The answer lies in its deep-rooted addiction … Read More »
Could not the key be that mysterious human attribute – love – that like despair cannot be measured, that finds in every other living creature a part of oneself, just the inkling in our hearts that everyone is us and … 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 »
Commenting on my post of November 7, Let’s talk about Venezuela, reader Jams O’Donnell cited Military Watch on the possibility that Russia: … will introduce the US to their own Ukraine on their own doorstep. As well as recently signing … 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 »