They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… They are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor…. They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they … Read More »
I had an email from a friend this morning; on the face of it apropos of nothing. What does getting sentimental about the deplorables achieve? Nothing good, I replied. Why do you ask? one of your posts seemed to me … Read More »
Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise Bob Dylan – Hurricane Did you know a key witness in the US case against Julian Assange confessed, in an … Read More »
Five days ago, on June 26, the Icelandic newspaper Stundin broke a story that should have been explosive. In an interview lasting several hours, Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson – a key FBI witness in the US case against Julian Assange – … Read More »
See also, Reading the middle east: part 1 [ezcol_1third][/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third][/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third_end][/ezcol_1third_end] * Topping the returns for a search on “full spectrum dominance” is a wiki page citing Harold Pinter’s 2005 Nobel Prize acceptance speech: … the United States is now totally frank about putting … Read More »
“Those who looked the other way, because they disliked Julian Assange, when the Department of Justice indicted him on a legal theory – that publishing clear public interest journalism could constitute multiple Espionage Act violations – should reconsider where that … Read More »
So I didn’t lose you with my unforgivable use of the d-word in the title? Excellent. I’ve several times on this site found cause to roll out one of my favourite Caitlin Johnstone quotes: In 200 years we’ve progressed from … Read More »
In the opening sentence of a post last month I spoke of Team BoJo as: … a spectacularly inept and – even by tory standards – venal party led by a serial liar … Perhaps that was a tad harsh. … Read More »
A trail of destruction, chaos and terror left by US wars on the middle east (with Britain, the EU, Canada and Antipodes fully onboard) has seen some of us in the predator nations waking up to a core feature of … Read More »
Capitol Hill, Wednesday June 23. At a Senate Armed Services budget hearing, General Mark Milley – Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and by that fact the highest ranking officer in the US Military – gave what Washington Post … Read More »