This really can’t be said too often …
16
Dec
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Category Archives: politics
Genocide apologist takes to the Guardian to exploit Bondi Beach atrocity
16
Dec
Guardian, December 15 2025 * David Rich is director of policy at a Community Security Trust described three days ago by the Guardian, apropos the Primal Scream brouhaha, as “offer[ing] security, advice and training to protect British Jews”. In an opinion … Read More »
Owen Jones on Bondi Beach weaponised
15
Dec
Before I get to Owen’s magisterial twenty-five minute take, let me summarise the five point response I gave yesterday, just minutes after learning of the Hanukkah murders. One, it’s a terrorist atrocity. Two, so is the Gaza genocide whose daily … Read More »
The Bondi Beach attack
14
Dec
Guardian, December 14 2025 * I only learned of this minutes ago. Initial thoughts: It’s a terrorist atrocity. So, on a vastly more industrial scale, is the Gaza genocide whose daily war crimes must massively exceed a dozen slain to … Read More »
Reith lecturer calls for ‘moral revolution’
14
Dec
Those who wrote trade deals to profit from underemployment of U.S. workers and sweatshop labor overseas are omnipotent. The insurance and pharmaceutical industries that run healthcare for profit are omnipotent. The intelligence agencies that spy on the public are omnipotent. … Read More »
Don’t worry, be happy …
13
Dec
The needless darkness of this world can get to the best of us – even Jonathan Cook, a writer I hold in the highest esteem and who has always eschewed showy prose in favour of quiet but forceful reason. I … Read More »
Primal Scream gig antisemitic? WTF?!?
13
Dec
Guardian, December 11, 2025 * Sometimes linguistic nuances matter. (Ask the ghost of Derek Bentley.) What did the Guardian mean by London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig ? That the image is unquestionably antisemitic … Read More »
US “madness disguised as strategy”
12
Dec
Another AI generated synthesis – I shudder at the implications – in this return, in the context of US thuggery in the Caribbean, to Yanis Varoufakis. This crisp and powerful analysis of the stakes and implications, delivered in a shade … Read More »
US seizes Venezuelan oil tanker
11
Dec
Guardian, December 11 2025 Hear John Mearsheimer’s ten minute response to the news of yesterday’s seizure. It’s repetitive, which is not the professor’s style, while occasional strange pauses suggest an AI stitch together. Worth watching all the same, but you … Read More »
Why China beat the USA on rare earths
10
Dec
China decisively played the rare-earth card. America is too dependent, too vulnerable. Ultimately, it had to compromise. But this raises the deeper question: why did the U.S. walk willingly into a self-made trap? The answer lies in its deep-rooted addiction … Read More »