I’m kicking myself. It’s months now since I was at a Palestine demonstration, either in London or the steel city. Why wasn’t I at this one? Fortunately, the always reliable Jonathan Cook was. The former Guardian journalist and blogger from … Read More »
Why did Donald Trump post, on the X/Twitter platform owned by the world’s richest man and now a member of Trump’s team, a clip of Jeffrey Sachs – old school liberal and scourge of the Neocons – lambasting US policy … Read More »
Accountant and tax specialist Richard Murphy, writing today: Rachel Reeves did an interview with Nick Robinson of the BBC this week as part of a new series entitled Political Thinking. The audio is available here. As Nick Robinson made clear, that … Read More »
Britain’s Independent newspaper yesterday, January 15 The [ceasefire] announcement was met with rousing cheers throughout northern Gaza where Hamas fighters reportedly came out of their tunnels to openly celebrate in the streets – make no mistake, this is being viewed … Read More »
Praise be to God for the downfall of that wicked man, Bashar al-Assad! Those receding parts of Syria not swallowed by Israel, Turkiye and the US are now under the control of Al Qaeda/ISIS cut-out, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. Now rebranded … Read More »
A downside of taking up arms against a dying hence triply dangerous empire, even as a mere keyboard warrior, is the bi-weekly visitation in the wee small hours of cognisance, temporarily overwhelming my emotional defences, of the enormity of its … Read More »
In a footnote to the previous post I wrote: More on Sykes-Picot here. For why I doubt that a third way, neither empire nor Ba’athism, was ever on the cards, see Syria – how Trotskyism got it so wrong. As … Read More »
My December 14 post, On Syria, chess, and Nat King Cole, generated this three-way exchange below the line. I’m dressed in a rather fetching red: You really think [Assad] a good man? A kind leader? At least read Syrian Gulag … Read More »
Path from Stanage Edge to Redmires, Sheffield. April 2024 * * *
I ended yesterday’s post, on the West’s economic decline, by speaking of a rapidly growing constituency, obliged by a once progressive capitalism to sell its labour but now increasingly unable – thanks to manufacturing having gone south, and to automations … Read More »