I’ve referred a good few times to this former Sunday School teacher and CIA Director. See for instance my post on America’s Christian Right, where I deem his likely challenge in 2024 and 2028 a far greater threat than any … Read More »
Image from a BBC story – Iraq: ‘We are systematically programmed to kill’ Caitlin Johnstone – yes, her again – says today that: The Capitol riot wasn’t the worst thing a US president has done. It’s not even the worst thing … Read More »
I ought to credit Ozzie blogger Caitlin Johnstone as an honorary steel city scribbler given how often I replicate her posts on this site, in full and with her blanket permission for “everyone but racists and fascists”. Today’s is a … Read More »
See also yesterday’s post, Stop trivialising the term, coup! Below are my shamelessly cherry-picked highlights from a predictably flawed but highly entertaining piece today in the liberal centrist Middle East outlet, Al-Monitor. Turkey awash with schadenfreude over Capitol takeover A large … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone opens her post today: Stop trivializing the term “coup”. It’s a real thing the US government really inflicts on other countries in a way that actually does topple governments and cause immense destruction. You cannot take over the … Read More »
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 »