This from Alison Banville of BSNEWS, a British journalist just back from Damascus: I just watched Ben Griffin’s speech at the Don’t Bomb Syria demo. Last Monday, when I was told there was another demonstration to protest the air strikes, … Read More »
In an international survey by WIN/Gallup the USA came out tops. And it can’t be laid at Trump’s door. The poll was in 2013, and worth checking out for other of its findings.
this post also appears in offguardian A Pink Floyd fan for half a century, and neutral on the band’s acrimonious eighties divorce, I was thrilled by Roger Waters’ denunciations – an unequivocal exception to the rule that celebs are intimidated … Read More »
[ezcol_1half]Part 1 ended by attributing widespread and unduly credulous acceptance of mainstream narratives on Russia, middle east and much else to a ‘painfully narrow’ perspective and idealist worldview. Part 2, more abstract and general, sets out what is meant by … Read More »
[ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end]Señor, señor Can you tell me where we’re headin’? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon? Seems like I been down this way before Is there any truth in that, señor?[/ezcol_1half_end] The West is divided, most of its citizens still willing, … Read More »
For nigh on a year my extremely close friend and below-the-line commenter zerohoursuni has been on “pre-moderation” at the Guardian. That means all his comments are subject to delay before they appear, if they appear at all, below any opinion … Read More »
Writing on Sunday, April 8 in What’s Left, Stephen Gowans offers eight reasons for extreme scepticism about yet another allegation of Damascus having used, for reasons inexplicable, chemical weapons on its own citizens late on April 7. See his full … Read More »
Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz is the only Arab to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Even in translation his was a wonderful voice, as distinctive as that of all great writers from Chaucer to Twain and Wodehouse. It was … Read More »
I’ve been saying for a long time that the USA (its rulers, not its people) is the most reckless and aggressive nation on earth. And I’ve been saying for a long time we’ve been lied to on an epic scale … Read More »
I’ve had a couple of exchanges of late with a supporter of what the mainstream calls the far left – the vanguard or Leninist model. Having read pieces from Socialist Workers Party (US), cited to straighten out my wayward thinking, … Read More »