“Biden did the murder. Trump’s just the guy who showed up to help dispose of the body.” * On January 19 I opened a post on the Gaza ceasefire with this: Why did Donald Trump post, on the X/Twitter platform … Read More »
Image by Mr Fish Genocide and mass extermination are not the exclusive domain of fascist Germany. Adolf Hitler appeared exceptionally cruel only because he presided over “the humiliation of the white man.” But the Nazis simply applied colonialist procedures hitherto … Read More »
Remind me. Which country has waged virtually non stop wars for more than two centuries? Which one devastated the Middle East in the name of – take you pick – a war on terror which massively amplified and weaponised the … Read More »
Reactions in Western media have been predictable. As the innovations of a pint-size Chinese AI outfit – innovations imposed (necessity being the mother of invention) by US sanctions on high end chips to China – wipe $billions off Silicon Valley/Wall … Read More »
WSJ Tuesday January 28 2025 – more here * I sure did take my eye off the ball on this one! I’d thought DeepSeek a sex position, like cowgirl or doggie, till yesterday afternoon. Returning from stroll, sandwich and pint … Read More »
Eyup, I’ll tell thee a story. In 1988 I was doing a Ph.D on computing tools for writers. I was also teaching a few hours a week in the computing department at a Sheffield City Polytechnic soon to gain university … Read More »
Who by his own hand? Who by his Lady’s command? Who shall I say is calling? Leonard Cohen The US and collective West are in decline: in some countries more rapidly than in others; in some self-accelerated. On the latter, … Read More »
Yesterday morning, in writing my intro to Paul Knaggs’s skewering of one instantiation of the heartless idiocies of Team Starmer, I picked up on Mr Knaggs having quoted Naomi Klein’s splendid work: I can’t recommend Shock Doctrine too highly. It rides the … Read More »
The government can’t say who’s committing fraud or how much it really costs – if they could, they’d be catching the actual fraudsters instead of building a surveillance system to monitor everyone’s bank accounts. They’re using a mathematical model based … Read More »
In my last post but one, Donald Trump is the empire unmasked, I quoted Caitlin Johnstone as per the above image caption. In the post which followed it, What is to be done?, I offered Chris Hedges’ slightly more detailed … Read More »