There can be a temptation to sit back and cheerlead for this or that state or militant group and say they’re going to bring the empire to its knees, but really it isn’t their responsibility to end the western empire. … Read More »
* Since my post tomorrow begs to differ with Caitlin Johnstone on a far from trivial matter, I was glad to read her post this morning and in it find – as usual – nothing I could take issue with. … Read More »
Today Mark Taliano posted this. I concur without reservation and invite those with a different view to argue it in the comments section or, by arrangement, in a guest post. What am I thinking? What am I thinking. I am … Read More »
I’m kicking myself. It’s months now since I was at a Palestine demonstration, either in London or the steel city. Why wasn’t I at this one? Fortunately, the always reliable Jonathan Cook was. The former Guardian journalist and blogger from … Read More »
Why did Donald Trump post, on the X/Twitter platform owned by the world’s richest man and now a member of Trump’s team, a clip of Jeffrey Sachs – old school liberal and scourge of the Neocons – lambasting US policy … Read More »
Accountant and tax specialist Richard Murphy, writing today: Rachel Reeves did an interview with Nick Robinson of the BBC this week as part of a new series entitled Political Thinking. The audio is available here. As Nick Robinson made clear, that … Read More »
Britain’s Independent newspaper yesterday, January 15 The [ceasefire] announcement was met with rousing cheers throughout northern Gaza where Hamas fighters reportedly came out of their tunnels to openly celebrate in the streets – make no mistake, this is being viewed … Read More »
Praise be to God for the downfall of that wicked man, Bashar al-Assad! Those receding parts of Syria not swallowed by Israel, Turkiye and the US are now under the control of Al Qaeda/ISIS cut-out, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. Now rebranded … Read More »
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 »