Category Archives: politics
Priti Patel’s threat to British journalists
UK government’s little-known proposed reforms to Britain’s Official Secrets Acts pose far-reaching threats to the media and the public’s right to know. They could land journalists and others in jail for fourteen years for publishing information the government claims damages … Read More »
US slaughters its first amendment
A thousand years of English law whooshed out the window with what this courtroom travesty inflicted on Assange, and scarcely a peep in our cowardly corporate media. Writing yesterday in CounterPunch on how Washington’s deeds show its true regard for … Read More »
With Bibi gone, moderation is restored!
Now that Netanyahu has departed, we anticipate a calmer panorama in the Knesset. Should such men, and women like former Justice Minister – now Interior Minister – Ayelet “Little Snakes” Shaked, show any tendency to excess they will answer to … Read More »
Biden-Putin Summit: rhetoric & realpolitik
On June 15, a day before the Biden-Putin summit two days ago, Moon of Alabama considered two corporate media explanations for there being no joint news conference afterwards … the US did not want to elevate Putin, and/or Putin might … Read More »
When exposing a crime …
Maya Forstater wins on appeal!
The institutions that might have been expected to support women’s political organisation have been conspicuous by their absence or active hostility. Amnesty, the Fawcett Society, unions and political parties: all have ignored these women, or been positively hostile … … … Read More »
The late great Michael Hudson!!!
I’m both delighted and embarrassed – more the former – to discover that my news earlier today of economist Michael Hudson’s death was greatly exaggerated. A comment by bevin, below, showed me that I had the wrong Michael Hudson; a political scientist … Read More »
Why I bang on about the trans thing
Since I’m more at home calling out the lies on China, Russia and Syria – else laying bare those mechanisms which ensure we have no independent media, hence no true democracy – you might ask why I’m bothering with this … Read More »
Transphobia? It’s time the woke woke up!
This from the Sunday Times today, June 6. Fundraiser block after cash pours in for feminist charged with hate crime A fundraising appeal to pay the legal bills of a feminist charged with a hate crime over alleged homophobic and … Read More »