I have my differences with those who, while sharing my view that blame for the Ukraine War lies with Washington, say the Kremlin is also culpable. For reasons given many times before and after February 24, 2022 – here for … Read More »
“… just a giant US military base with kangaroos …” As a compatriot of Caitlin Johnstone rots in a British jail for telling us the truth about the war crimes and mass surveillance of its supposed allies by the US … Read More »
Apropos UK data released today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), modern monetary theorist and tax specialist Richard Murphy comments that: The deliberate choice by the government to prevent market-matching pay settlements in the public sector is only rational … Read More »
The West having de-industrialised, its ruling classes are dependent on super profits from the exploitation of cheap labour in the global south and from their highly financialised domestic economies. Both are threatened by a renascent China and Russia; respectively, Wall … Read More »
Anyone following these scribblings, including the previous four “Ukraine takes”, knows my views on: what trigged the Ukraine War Decades of NATO provocation, from the betrayals of pledges to Gorbachev, through the stepping up of hostilities when the drunken pliancy … Read More »
This important post from the onthebrynk site of Bryan Gocke, a pal since college days in the late seventies, sheds valuable light on that question. Is the US running out of Luncheon Vouchers ? I recently came across a Talking … Read More »
A rich celebrity who makes millions of dollars a year in a fun, easy and egoically gratifying job is not going to be spotlighting all the lives who are being destroyed by the status quo systems which elevated them … … Read More »
I’m convinced that many of my friends and peers believe – though the more media savvy know better than to come right out and say so, even to themselves – that the Guardian and Observer are a cut above the … Read More »
Whether we associate the song with Carole King or Aretha Franklin, the catchily named Trans Cultural Mindfulness Alliance is offended by it. This Norwegian outfit demands that it be taken down from Spotify and Apple Music. Alerted by a BTL … Read More »
“In some quarters it is considered ‘transphobic’ to even note that Isla Bryson was once Adam Graham.” – Alex Massie in The Spectator The Guardian today, January 25th 2023: Politicians, campaigners and a UN special rapporteur have all expressed grave concerns … Read More »