Partisangirl (and HRC) on Jeffrey Epstein
30
Aug
Tweeted after Epsteins arrest, but three weeks before he was suicided. …
Category Archives: politics
Limits to Western “regime change”
28
Aug
Good post in OffGuardian two days ago from the always highly readable Andre Vitchek. Suddenly, Western “Regime” Changes Keep Failing It used to be done regularly and it worked: The West identified a country as its enemy, unleashed its professional … Read More »
Trump isn’t helping but …
25
Aug
Three new reads
23
Aug
this post also features in offguardian Today’s selection is on the face of it an eclectic mix, taking in the non-dualism of Indian sage Ramana Maharshi, the vast storehouse of treasure – and potential for WW3 – below Greenland’s melting … Read More »
Sarin in Syria: chemistry, and cui bono?
17
Aug
This post also features in OffGuardian The exchange below took place a few days ago, below the line of an OffGuardian piece on the corruption of the UN’s Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) as shown in its … Read More »
Epstein suicided? Come on, grow up!
15
Aug
The Guardian yesterday. But how does Filipovic show that Epstein conspiracy theories are far-fetched? By offering it as given fact: Online, conspiracy theories now abound. Observers suggest Epstein was killed by one of the men who may have been implicated … Read More »
If
14
Aug
If Notre Dame deserves a minute of silence, Syria deserves the world to shut up forever
Jeffrey Epstein: 3 things we know
10
Aug
Four hours ago, according to the New York Times, Epstein hanged himself at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. Maybe he did at that. Who really knows? All I know are these three things: He faced forty-five years in jail … Read More »
Capital punishment? It’s simple really
9
Aug
In my nineteen sixties mid teens, when normal lads were out on the street playing togger and beginning to get interested in girls, I was reading such uplifting works as The Trial of Steven Truscot, about a Canadian fifteen year … Read More »
Bad arguments for good causes
8
Aug
I should make the above the recurring header for a regular column … Spotted today on FB: George Orwell, of whom I have a few criticisms and not all of them minor, could also be right on the nail. In … Read More »