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 »
The year now ending saw a record number of elections in the West. In not one of them did the decline of Western supremacy feature. Like the proverbial elephant, it was addressed by neither America’s duopoly nor Britain’s. The same … Read More »
Nine days ago, in Syria glimpsed through the fog of war, I spoke of: … the well meaningly clueless, and the less well meaningly calculating, [who] celebrate the fall of the region’s last Ba’athist government to Turkish, Israeli and Western … Read More »
I wrote seven days ago, apropos the fall of the Middle East’s last Ba’athist government, that as Palestinian resistance is weakened by the cutting off of arms flows to Hezbollah, so too is Iran – its desired fall the crown … Read More »
Commenting today on news that New York prosecutors have charged Luigi Mangione with “murder as an act of terrorism” over the shooting of health insurance CEO Brian Thompson, Caitlin Johnstone writes: … the label “terrorist” is a tool of narrative control, … Read More »
While the well meaningly clueless, and the less well meaningly calculating, celebrate the fall of the region’s last Ba’athist government to Turkish, Israeli and Western backed terrorists risibly referred to as “rebels”, this post offers the views of three men … Read More »