Watch out Boris: Priti is after you!
29
Jul
Category Archives: politics
Another whistle-blower pays the price
28
Jul
Meet Daniel Hale, former keyboard warrior – my use of the term is non metaphoric – on the US Air Force drone warfare programme. This morning I awoke to learn that yesterday, July 27, he was jailed for forty-five months. … Read More »
The level of ‘debate’ on China
27
Jul
FaceBook this week. What Douglas Baker posted was a link to the CovertAction piece I too had linked from the final paragraph of my earlier post, NATO Expansion map Mark II. That piece poses three questions to pierce the myth … Read More »
NATO Expansion map Mark II
27
Jul
This map has featured in many posts on this site. For years it has been my stock response to the widely held view of Russia as a nation so aggressive that “we” – taxpayers in the Western Bloc – must … Read More »
The despot of Damascus
25
Jul
Warning. This post contains heavy irony. Read with caution. That Bashar al-Assad is a brutal thug, loathed and feared by the overwhelming majority of the Syrian people, is beyond dispute. Not just right-wing Western Media but many on the far … Read More »
But everyone knew her as Nancy
15
Jul
Here’s another tale from the vaults of the world’s most powerful ‘democracy’. Brought to us by Glenn Greenwald, it showcases one example of how conflicts of interest, if they ever did bother senior US politicians, have long ceased to do … Read More »
Speaking of roads …
13
Jul
As argued in a recent post, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and associated projects like the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank which now gives the global south an alternative to the punitive terms of IMF/World Bank loans, have lifted hundreds of … Read More »
China Rising: humanity’s best hope?
11
Jul
Snow is falling on the wide sidewalks of the historic city of Xi’an, but people don’t seem to be troubled by the bitter cold. One of the oldest cities in China, Xi’an is now vibrant, optimistic and stunningly beautiful. Sidewalks … Read More »
Left-wing communism: infantile disorder
10
Jul
Facebook, yesterday. * Re John-Mark Considine’s claims of frenetic Sinophobia in the West, see the first of my China Reads, a closer look at the allegations, given wall to wall publicity despite evidential paucity, of “Uighur genocide”. Re my own … Read More »
Dark Side of the Media
8
Jul
Roger Waters speaks during a protest against the extradition of Julian Assange at Parliament Square, London, February 2020 RT two days ago: Roger Waters: Assange movement growing, but mainstream media ‘cowed by the ruling class’ Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters, … Read More »