On February 16, 1989, a chap name of Ashraf Ghani penned a piece for the LA Times on the Soviet withdrawal from his country. I just knowed this dude was gonna go far. Full piece here. Like the man said: … Read More »
Still from Cathy Come Home, 1966 Defend Democracy Press two days ago: Zionism has taken control of the British Labour Party. And it is destroying it! Left erupts in anger after Starmer’s Labour expels iconic film director Ken Loach Aug. … Read More »
If western mass media were anything remotely resembling what they purport to be, they would be making sure the public understands how badly their government just fucked them. Instead it’s “Oh no, those poor Afghan women.” Caitlin Johnstone It works … Read More »
Life is not an easy matter. We cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless we have before us a great idea to raise us above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. … Read More »
We are ruled by criminals. The evidence for saying so is so overwhelming that burden of proof falls on those who disagree. Or it would, if the people paying attention to what our rulers do – as opposed to what … Read More »
[ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end]London yesterday. Britain’s High Court has granted the US leave to expand its grounds for appealing an earlier UK court decision to block the extradition of Julian Assange to the USA. His slow journey toward a US jail for … Read More »
Nagasaki bound: bomb No. 2, “Fat Man” Seventy-six years and three days ago Hiroshima was incinerated. Three days later, on August 9, it was Nagasaki’s turn. Estimates of the immediate consequences – not attempting to reckon those in the months, … Read More »
1970s advert The evolution of the electric kettle is instructive. Invented in the eighteen nineties, its initial forms had drawbacks. Like taking an age to do the biz, heating water by making it live – quite serious, that – and … Read More »
Tax specialist and modern monetary theorist Richard Murphy is no Trotskyist. But as I said in a recent post he has a way of formulating demands which (a) meet the needs of the hour and (b) are not on the … Read More »
In a closely argued piece for CounterPunch on the seventy-fifth anniversary of Hiroshima, Belgian born historian Jacques Pauwels, now a Canadian citizen, explores why it happened. Mythmaking and the Atomic Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Myth: The war in the … Read More »