No apologies for showing this map yet again. If corporate media were doing their ostensible as opposed to their real job – which is to say, if their business models and revenue requirements allowed them to serve truth rather than power … Read More »
Yesterday in the Metro (also in Daily Mail, Independent, Times, Sun and – ta-da! – Wakefield Express) … Marks and Spencer has become the first high street retailer to relabel Midget Gems over complaints the name is outdated. A disability campaigner … Read More »
China, understandably sensitive about encirclement, will be forced to act when a shift in the domestic policies of neighbouring countries represent an unacceptable risk to its own security. This mirrors how the US treats Latin America under the ‘Monroe Doctrine’. How … Read More »
If you believe situations like Kazakhstan and Myanmar to be popular uprisings against brutal dictators, you are unconnected to reality. Brian Berletica (today, below) I can’t overstate the folly of thinking events in Kazakhstan can be grasped by careful readings … Read More »
The other day I liked – both in the FB and literal sense – the post of a friend who’d offered this image. But isn’t it incompatible with the image I posted a few days ago? Only if we have … Read More »
And then it gets down to the level of farce, as the EU starts calling on Kazakh authorities to “respect the right to peaceful protests.” As in allowing total anarchy, robbery, looting, hundreds of vehicles destroyed, attacks with assault rifles, … Read More »
Two days ago I noted how corporate media in the West give even positive news about China a negative spin by appending the rhetorical question, but at what cost? I should have added that China’s ultra-leftist critics, imperialism’s useful idiots, … Read More »
The Economist laments the fact that in China the state controls its capitalists. In the West the reverse is true. The uniformity of negative reporting on China across all corporate media in the West allows for only two interpretations. EITHER … Read More »