I began political blogging ten years ago, with increased intensity in the past five or six. On a few issues – Russia, the 2016 US Election, Brexit, Syria, Venezuela – my positions, and reactions to them, have threatened or actually … Read More »
Jonathan Cook, today in CounterPunch: Assange Wins. The Cost: The Crushing of Press Freedom The unexpected decision by Judge Vanessa Baraitser to deny a US demand to extradite Julian Assange, foiling efforts to send him to a US super-max jail … Read More »
What would you do if stuck in a lift with John Pilger? Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, in a new book reviewed here by Media Lens, quotes with approval a fellow journalist saying he’d stick pins in his eyes to … Read More »
Merry Christmas one and all … … but, well, dash it – bah humbug. There’s a ton of stuff on which I beg to differ with Modern Monetary Theorist Richard Murphy – heading the list being his silence on Britain’s … Read More »
Avril Haines Writing in CounterPunch on Xmas Eve, Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd urge President-elect Biden: No Joe, Don’t Roll Out the Red Carpet for Torture Enablers It was painful enough to live through the U.S. invasion of Iraq that … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone today. NB, Caitlin backs up her assertions meticulously. This is commendable but does leave her posts looking like oceans of URLs. I’ve removed them here. Anyone wishing to check the basis on which she is making any claim … Read More »
See also, Our Beautifully Democratic Wars. Jonny Tickle, writing in RT two days ago. ‘Compared to you, we are squeaky clean’: Putin blames West for betraying promises to Moscow and launching ‘new Cold War’ In particular, Putin chided the US … Read More »
Information Clearing House has today published its transcript of a John Pilger speech in London to a Stop the War fund-raiser, Artists Speak Out. Britain’s Armed Services Memorial is a silent, haunting place. Set in the rural beauty of Staffordshire, … Read More »
Today I came across a piece in The Critic, a rag I hadn’t heard of so I checked it out. Its arrival a year ago was as new entrant to the ‘thinking man’s debunker of left wing twaddle’ market, and … Read More »
An exchange below one of my pieces in OffGuardian a few months ago had me ‘othered’ by a posse of commentariat for “approvingly” quoting writers this armchair clan frowns upon. How did I recognise my BTL detractors as an armchair … Read More »