Three fundamental and interwoven differences separate the outlook of sites like this from the mainstream. One is the latter’s blindness to class rule, a second its blindness to the US empire, the third its belief in news media capacity to … Read More »
* On Drop Site News, yesterday, November 14. Tents in Gaza Collapse From Rain as Palestinians Struggle With Massive Flooding Heavy winter storms in Gaza put hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in tents at risk as Israel continues to restrict … Read More »
Guardian, November 12 2025 My previous post was a whistlestop, first call Venezuela. On empire’s need, always easily met, for a comprador elite inside a targeted country – “ideally with one of its own as head of state” – I made … Read More »
The sun never set on it – at once both literal truth and vainglorious boast Caitlin’s post today took stock of differences between the British and US empires – direct rule colonialism versus indirect rule by an imperialism I define … Read More »
I refer often to corporate media as systemically corrupt. This from Britain decides! in May 2021: Media barons like Murdoch, Rothermere and Barclay Brothers are the visible tip of an iceberg. More insidious – less obvious hence more toxic – … Read More »
When I ponder on liberalism at its best (not that I spend a heap of time doing any such thing) I can think of no finer example than Jeffrey Sachs. Like his friend John Mearsheimer – featured in my last … Read More »
Remember that Castlemaine XXXX ad from the eighties? The one where blame for a collapsed pick-up in the Ozzie outback is attributed not to crate after crate of lager bearing down on its creaking suspension, but to two bottles of … Read More »
When Caitlin Johnstone invited us – see my post of two days ago, On the nature and origins of Islamism – to “think about the hatred and savagery you’d need to summon up within yourself to gouge the eyes out of … Read More »
As America’s aristocracy rushes to heap nauseating eulogy on the late Dick Cheney, here’s how I’ll remember the man. Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words … This last twenty-four hours I’ve watched three interviews by Judge Napolitano. Though … Read More »
Seen today in BTL commentary on a Naked Capitalism piece: Gestopholies, November 3, 2025 at 7:36 pm LOL. Stalin certainly did revive industrial policy in Russia, but he did it in a very flawed way. In order for no one … Read More »