The West is still in denial. The Guardian – Sep 3, 2025 – says China is grandstanding * Let me offer the distilled wisdom of my fifteen years of hard reflection on where the world is at: The West is … Read More »
Having spoken but rarely and long ago on this part of the world, I can’t with confidence say why US warships are headed for Venezuela now, rather than last week .. month .. year or next week .. month .. … Read More »
“We are all morally obligated to do everything we can to oppose a live-streamed genocide that’s being facilitated, supported and defended by the western power structure under which we live. Nothing besides tooth-and-claw ferocious opposition satisfies that moral obligation.” Mum, … Read More »
UK home secretary Yvette Cooper The Guardian today … Palestine Action lawyers accuse Yvette Cooper of ‘cynical media campaign’ Exclusive: Home secretary ‘breaching duty to court’ by making claims about reason for group’s ban that she has not disclosed in … Read More »
Four days ago, in Georgia on my mind, I referred to the talented but indefatigably absurd Julie Burchill as “morally insane”. A pugnacious Zionist and wannabe Jew, she defends Israel not by the denialism most Western apologists resort to, but … Read More »
The Guardian yesterday, August 26 * If you’re wondering why on earth Iran would want to direct antisemitic attacks on synagogues down under – or whatever term is used for the antipodes in Western Asia – you’re not the only … Read More »
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Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz in London last month A state whose economy is tanking while its leader prefers to strut the world stage, eyes fixed on (and $billions poured into) Project Ukraine as living standards plummet for his own citizens? … Read More »
* I urge a read of yesterday’s post, on Israel’s indefatigable capacity for bare-faced mendacity, by Caitlin Johnstone. Always delivering punchy but cogent reads, she has the literary adroitness of a Julie Burchill but without the moral insanity. I was … Read More »
Yesterday in the first twenty-five of seventy minutes with an interviewer unnamed and unknown to me, John Mearsheimer demonstrated both the astuteness and gravitas which keep me tuning in, and the limits to the “Offensive Realism” school of which the … Read More »