That I write so little about the domestic affairs of my own country is down to lack of time, not of interest or concern. Sometimes I yearn to shed political writing altogether. And do what? Why, augment my pictorial essays … Read More »
This war was engineered in Washington, and could be over this afternoon should Washington make the modest concessions needed to stop it. But that’s the last thing DC desires. Ukrainians and Russians will die needlessly. Plummeting living standards in the … Read More »
We know from both the Monroe Doctrine and innumerable US interventions – some covert like Honduras 2009, some by proxy like Chile 1973 and Nicaragua in the eighties, some fully overt like Grenada 1983 – that regardless of the will … Read More »
They are lying to you. They are lying when they say they tried to prevent this war. They are lying when they say de-escalation is impossible … Peace and detente are very possible. All that would need to happen is … Read More »
Right now we’re seeing saturation condemnations of Russia across all corporate media. That these media are incapable of prioritising truth, over the agendas of the tiny elites who beneath a chimera of democracy rule us, is a given for reasons … Read More »
Here in slightly abridged form is how Caitlin Johnstone begins her post today: I am in awe at the US propaganda machine. The global north has been perfectly aligned with cold war agendas of securing US unipolar dominance by an … Read More »
Let me pick out five happenings. “Partygate” be damned. The Economist beats a path to 10 Downing Street for the sagacities of that great statesman, Boris – more-lives-than-a-cat – Johnson, on a European response to the Russian bear. With Britain … Read More »
Caitlin in fine form this morning. She covers pretty much all the bases – empire, social media censorship, false equivalence and more besides. She even makes house room for that vital concept of theoretical physics, Schroedinger’s Putin. (For images, and … Read More »
Shock and Awe comes to Baghdad, March 2003 Fourteen months ago I opened a post on the tragedy of Corbynism with this: On a few issues – Russia, the 2016 US Election, Brexit, Syria, Venezuela – my positions, and reactions … Read More »
I’m saddened that musicians whose work I’ve loved since See Emily Play now condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Roger Waters – who has done such sterling work on Palestine and Julian Assange, while refusing to go with the propaganda blitz … Read More »