Yet again I’m indebted to Dave Hansell for alerting me, in a comment below my previous post, to a short piece by Paul Craig Roberts on his Institute for Political Economy site. I see the proliferation of gamekeepers turned poacher … Read More »
In case I haven’t made this clear, I take the Ukraine situation very, very seriously. Not that I deem war inevitable or even probable. (There’s too much smoke ‘n mirror stuff here for anyone to call with justifiable confidence. ) … Read More »
As she so often does, Caitlin Johnstone, in her post today, has taken the words from my mouth: It Takes A Touch Of Madness: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix It takes a touch of madness to … Read More »
Yes, this map again … As the Ukraine crisis continues apace, the article below appeared today, January 28, in Defend Democracy Press. Its author, Dimitri Konstantakopoulos, was a Syriza colleague of the better known Yanis Varoufakis. While I have points … Read More »
. I take the relentless uniformity of Sinophobic output by every segment, ‘quality’ to tabloid, of mainstream corporate media as evidence not that China is terrible in every possible way … ONE nation is circling the planet with hundreds of … Read More »
A week ago on January 17 at Transcend Media Services, Jan Oberg penned this editorial, best read in the context of my other posts on Eastern Europe and Central Asia, in particular this one from last week: Eurasia’s rise is … Read More »
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When a regime as odious as that headed by the serial liar Boris Johnson declares war on the Venerable Bebe, I get why so many are up in arms to declare – HANDS OFF, BOJO! We can discuss the licence … Read More »
. A threat hanging over Russia – of a first strike taking out most of her nuclear capacity, leaving star wars technologies to down the few remaining missiles she could fire back – has been nullified. The Pentagon has no … Read More »
No apologies for showing this map yet again. If corporate media were doing their ostensible as opposed to their real job – which is to say, if their business models and revenue requirements allowed them to serve truth rather than power … Read More »