Britain’s Neoliberally Atlanticist, The Economist, February 18 2025 The air is thick with dust far from settled following twin shocks delivered last week to Europe’s Atlanticist leaders by their US masters. Specifically, Defense Secretary Pete Hegsworth told them what all … Read More »
Yesterday – see What can a poor girl do? – I referenced Caitlin Johnstone’s post, written the same day and containing this: According to an Israeli media report, last May IDF troops strapped explosives to the neck of an 80 year-old Palestinian … Read More »
So Israel held a bunch of Palestinians in concentration camps without charge just for being Palestinian, and then they not only starved and tortured them but actually made them wear a Star of David on their prison garments. But remember kids, it’s evil and wrong to … Read More »
On many matters our ‘quality’ media serve us passably well but this enables a greater lie. They must show themselves trustworthy even if it embarrasses high office. (Not only does long term capacity to manufacture consent depend on it. So … Read More »
It’s at best ignorant and at worst dishonest to quote the “then” part of an if-then conditional as a standalone. I’m not one for defending war criminals but a textbook case is the oft repeated claim that President-elect Richard Nixon’s … Read More »
Two things everybody needs to know about Western democracy. One, it ain’t real. A lot of work goes in – not just through news media but an array of ideological apparatus from education to arts and entertainment, and from organised … Read More »
Here’s a tale in three short parts. On November 29, 2023 – fifty-two days into Israel’s Western backed genocide on Gaza – an article on the Human Rights Watch website posed this question: I’ve had my issues with HRW. Along … Read More »
Financial Times, February 3 2025 One thing Ireland learned before and after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement – as did occupied Europe after WW2 – is that not every freedom fighter trained to rob banks, forge documents, do blackmail, strong-arm … Read More »
“Biden did the murder. Trump’s just the guy who showed up to help dispose of the body.” * On January 19 I opened a post on the Gaza ceasefire with this: Why did Donald Trump post, on the X/Twitter platform … Read More »
It’s open season on Keir Starmer these days, and rightly so. If the man has a single redeeming feature it passed me by. He’s stupid, unprincipled, untruthful, arrogant in an odiously patrician way – yet oddly thin of skin – … Read More »