Guardian headline, March 10 2022 Why indeed bomb a hospital? Humanitarian considerations aside, the military ineptitude and lousy PR should cause sensible folk – their emotions not yet fully at the mercy of propaganda blitz – to exercise caution and … Read More »
I’ve been writing for years on the criminality of the elites which, behind a chimera of democracy, rule the western world. And about the systemic inability of corporate media to tell the truth on matters those elites need us … Read More »
The Azov Battalion marches with Nazi-inspired Wolfsangel flags in Mariupol, August 2020 Five days ago on March 5, Substack’s Alexander Rubenstein and GrayZone’s Max Blumenthal revealed the most comprehensive evidence I’ve seen to date of a fact ‘our’ entire political … Read More »
. Ukraine cannot defeat Russia, and Nato has made clear it will not step in directly. What America and its allies will do, however, is supply arms and training to further Washington’s desire to bog down Russia – with what … Read More »
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Our media are large corporations selling privileged audiences to other large corporations. Now the question is, what pictures of the world would a rational person expect from this arrangement? Noam Chomsky . I often use the term, propaganda blitz, in reference … Read More »
A friend posted on FB her admiration of the “hero” Volodymyr Zelensky. Yeah, the guy referred to by this White House reporter for CNN: No Fly Zones imposed by the US Empire plunged Africa’s richest country into over a decade … Read More »
A good few people for whom I have great respect – and one or two for whom I harbour no such sentiment – are denouncing Russia’s move on Ukraine. I will not, which puts me at odds even with those … Read More »
Writing yesterday, February 27, on the Strategic Culture Foundation website, former UK diplomat and spy Alastair Crooke assesses Russia’s move and the West’s response. First though, a word about Mr Crooke. Says wiki: … Crooke, (born 1949) is a British … Read More »