Pilger on pandemics
13
Mar
Category Archives: politics
Identity Politics
12
Mar
This from a woman who describes herself as ‘exited from prostitution, highly critical of the practice of buying sex and increasingly alienated within feminist circles’: Trans activists [seek] to convince you that because a small minority have ambiguous genitalia or … Read More »
Old Age Pensions
10
Mar
Next year my partner Jackie will turn sixty. For most of her working life that had been the age of eligibility for a state pension the OECD says is the lowest in the developed world. But as you may have … Read More »
Do we jail journalists for exposing crimes?
1
Mar
Caitlin Johnstone today: The propagandists have all gone dead silent on the WikiLeaks founder they previously were smearing with relentless viciousness, because they no longer have an argument. The facts are all in, and yes, it turns out the US … Read More »
Peter Hitchens on Douma
1
Mar
All of the liberal left, and much of the far left, have lined up in a de facto endorsement of the West’s dirty war on Syria. Some – like Workers Power and SWP – ignore those with proof that the … Read More »
My February reads
29
Feb
Reshaping global food production in the image of corporate imperialism … a brief and bloody history of capitalism in its lead nation … the pillorying of the world’s most famous whistle-blower … Welcome to my reads of the month. * … Read More »
Craig Murray: Assange Hearing Day 4
29
Feb
See also: Craig Murray: Assange Hearing Day 1 Craig Murray: Assange Hearing Day 2 craig murray: assange hearing day 3 The former UK Ambassador reports on the fourth day of the Extradition Hearing. Try asking this question out loud, in … Read More »
Craig Murray: Assange Hearing Day 3
27
Feb
See also: Craig Murray: Assange Hearing Day 1 Craig Murray: Assange Hearing Day 2 Note: as Murray himself says at the end of this account, he has had no time to proof read it and what follows does contain errors. … Read More »
Roger Waters on Julian Assange
27
Feb
Call me biased if you will. I was hooked on Pink Floyd at fourteen, with Piper at the Gates of Dawn and the hit single, See Emily Play. That was May ’67 and I’ve been listening ever since. I’m not … Read More »
Craig Murray: Assange Hearing Day 1
26
Feb
Craig Murray was UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan until Tony Blair sacked him for revealing that Uzbeki leader Islam Karimov was not only robbing his impoverished country blind but had the habit of boiling political prisoners alive. This was embarrassing. Karimov … Read More »