That’s the reply given by former leader of the Australian Labour Party, Paul Keating, when asked on Sky News, “what makes you so sure China isn’t a military threat to Australia?” Paul Keating gold. @SkyNewsAust asks why he doesn't see … Read More »
On his blog yesterday, Richard sets out crisp assessment of the bank’s failure. This he follows with eight take away points. So, what are the lessons? The first, and most obvious is that these bankers clearly had no clue as … Read More »
“This is big”, wrote Moon of Alabama on March 10 in his opener to a piece featured in my post next day. Even corporate media couldn’t ignore it altogether, though they continue to do their level best to downplay its … Read More »
Not even her worst enemies could call Caitlin Johnstone a Pollyanna. She is never other than terrifyingly forthright on a US aggression as easy to ascertain and quantify – by the few willing to set aside meta-narrative in favour of … Read More »
Here’s something I wrote a week ago: While corporate media do actively lie when circumstances and a systemically driven deference to power require it, their preferred MO is to lie by omission. Not only is that safer. It is in the … Read More »
Amid the high drama of the game of chicken playing out between a BBC Director General and a soccer superstar I don’t see blinking – see my other post today, Gary Lineker? Or H.M. Loyal Opposition? – the restoration of … Read More »
Guardian writer and former Independent editor Archie Bland today says: Linekerology is only prominent because, even if you think his comparison of Suella Braverman’s rhetoric to that emanating from Germany in the 1930s is excessive … (Not sure I do, … Read More »
On his blog yesterday, commenting on the Gary Lineker brouhaha, Professor Richard Murphy notes correctly that: We live in a surreal world where calling out fascists is, apparently, much worse than being a fascist. To which my reply, currently awaiting moderation, … Read More »
We are not like this tigress, encountered on Xmas Eve 2011 as I traded the city heat for the leafy paths and avenues of Saigon Zoo. In the wild, once she’d mated, raised cubs and left her former domain on … Read More »
With regard to the reports in the [New York] Times and [Washington] Post, the notion that a massive, highly-sophisticated international undersea terror attack simultaneously destroying four separate pipelines would have been launched by Ukrainians operating from Germany without the knowledge of … Read More »