I recommend reading this piece in full – and if you’ve the time, watching Vanessa Beeley’s hour long video – at 21st century Wire. The only thing keeping westerners from seeing through the lies they’ve been told about Syria is … Read More »
Why is this statement of the blindingly obvious such a ‘hugely controversial step’? Because we draw conclusions on the causes of salafist terror without troubling to join the dots on a quarter century of western aggression in the middle east, … Read More »
Like you, I’m appalled by the news from Manchester. My views on its causes are no secret. Now is not the time to restate them. * Why don’t I shut up about Syria? My views aren’t popular and I’m not … Read More »
Last night as I sliced peppers in the kitchen, too slow to switch from BBC Radio 4 to 3 before the seven oclock ‘news’ put a Tomahawk size dent in my mood, I caught the latest Assad evil. On my … Read More »
It’s rare for me to post the writing of another in its entirety. Equally unusual is the fact this piece, from the blog of its author, Stephen Gowans, is 7,000+ words long. It begins as a very specific, esoteric even, … Read More »
Only connect – E. M. Forster, Howards End For his well researched work on the British establishment, you couldn’t slide a cigarette paper between Owen Jones and me. The same goes for George Monbiot’s forensic but neatly penned linking of … Read More »
This from Global Research.org, April 29: Read in full the Global Research post here. It gives the historic context of the west’s disdain for the right to self determination of a Syrian people for whom it has shed such Niagaras … Read More »
“Ba’athism promotes a unified Arab state through the leadership of a vanguard party over a revolutionary government and the creation of one-party states, and rejects political pluralism … it is a secular ideology that supports socialist economics to a varying degree, and … Read More »
Yesterday’s Guardian features claims that French Intelligence have proof of Assad’s guilt at Idlib. Do read the piece. I have four questions: Why would we trust this source, an agency of one of the lead belligerents? If we strike out … Read More »
See also North Korea? The problem is Washington I make a point of checking into centrist media like FP and Al-Monitor from time to time. Though essentially supportive of a rotten global status quo, both have their uses. Al-Monitor frequently … Read More »