[ezcol_2third][/ezcol_2third] [ezcol_1third_end]Caitlin Johnstone just read my mind again. Or is it just that anyone who thinks about the state we’re in with any seriousness and sincerity will find themselves arriving – this is the nature of truth – at strikingly … Read More »
Instead of a real military threat from Russia and China, the problem for US strategists is the absence of such a threat … What worries them is NATO nations and countries along the Belt & Road seeing the benefits of … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone today: It would be more efficient and straightforward if all English-language news media were run directly out of CIA HQ in Langley, Virginia. Reporters could cut out the middleman and drop the charade of presenting unproven assertions by … Read More »
Here’s another Facebook exchange. This one’s about the publication on February 1st of the Amnesty International Report, Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel system of domination and crime against humanity. Download the report here. Though 280 pages long, a lot can … Read More »
… this leader of the opposition, a former director of public prosecution … used his time prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile – Boris Johnson This was not the usual cut and thrust of politics; it was an … Read More »
The mainstream view, sometimes conscious and explicit but usually unconscious and implicit, is that the West has the moral authority to lead the world. Five centuries of exploiting the global south say otherwise. ONE nation is circling the planet with … Read More »
Yet again I’m indebted to Dave Hansell for alerting me, in a comment below my previous post, to a short piece by Paul Craig Roberts on his Institute for Political Economy site. I see the proliferation of gamekeepers turned poacher … Read More »
In case I haven’t made this clear, I take the Ukraine situation very, very seriously. Not that I deem war inevitable or even probable. (There’s too much smoke ‘n mirror stuff here for anyone to call with justifiable confidence. ) … Read More »
As she so often does, Caitlin Johnstone, in her post today, has taken the words from my mouth: It Takes A Touch Of Madness: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix It takes a touch of madness to … Read More »
Yes, this map again … As the Ukraine crisis continues apace, the article below appeared today, January 28, in Defend Democracy Press. Its author, Dimitri Konstantakopoulos, was a Syriza colleague of the better known Yanis Varoufakis. While I have points … Read More »