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 »
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 »
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 »
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 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 »
this post also features on offguardian This video may cause distress. Taken by their Isis captors in May 2016, it shows the humiliation of two Syrian soldiers prior to their roadside execution. Now read on … * Michael Hudson, described … Read More »
In other circumstances John Smith’s unwavering class analysis of the linked themes of Brexit and Labour’s December defeat would have been in my January reads post. In the event, by the time it came to my attention I’d already decided … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone in top satiric form today. Dems Should Do The Sensible Thing And Nominate A Moderate Rapacious Psychopath Editor’s note: In order to circumvent internet censorship, today’s Caitlin Johnstone essay has been replaced with an op-ed by Snooty McCentrist … Read More »