Yesterday to be precise. Bowed down under the yoke of Bashar the Brutal, a subdued people – Alawite, Catholic, Druze, Maronite, Orthodox, Shia and Sunni – lament the departure of the Moderate Islamists of David Cameron’s imagination, and Isis reality.
Just another tale from the archives of US democracy in action. Craig Brittain, who last year ran for Arizona Senator as a Republican, was former owner of a website – IsAnyoneDown dot com – which posted nude pictures of women … Read More »
Let me start by fixing one or two small errors and omissions on Abe Lincoln’s part: You can fool some most of the people all of the time, and all of the people some most of the time, but you … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone yesterday on growing up. Apart from two sentences of modern monetary theory, she has my full agreement. And as ever, Caitlin has a way of putting things that keeps me going back for more. Part of growing up, … Read More »
Guardian, April 19 2021 Posted on Facebook an hour ago by Pierre Jamain … The outrage over Navalny’s imprisonment and resulting health crisis is an object lesson in imperialist cynicism and intrigue. Those most passionately invoking his democratic rights are … Read More »
Uighur brouhaha? A simple map can be worth a thousand words … To say I’m alarmed by the sinophobic bellicosity of Washington and its thermonuclear satellites, my country very much included, would be a gross understatement. In the world’s three … Read More »
Spotted on Facebook and reproduced here in abridged form, these seem existential insights but I have to ask: which form of society has taken one side of our dual nature, as individuated yet social animals, further than any other? Inability … Read More »
My previous post, on Roderic Day’s 7,000 word response to allegations of China’s persecution of its Muslim Uighur population, contains the following: Polling of Chinese citizenry by Dalia Research reveals that “73% of Chinese consider China to be democratic whereas … Read More »
Silence? What silence? Few things are more predictable than the demonising by corporate media of ‘regimes’ which obstruct, directly or indirectly, the will of Wall Street. But while the general truth of this may be acknowledged within intellectual circles, its applicability to … Read More »
Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Oops – did I say Russia? My bad. I meant of course the USA. * And before Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Here’s Major-General Smedley-Butler in 1933. * * *