For International Women’s Day, here’s a plug for a wonderful graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg. Reviewing it in late 2015, I wrote: if we’re talking womanhood celebrated, here’s a rare treat for feminist and socialist alike. Red Rosa by Kate … Read More »
There ought to be a club for Left bloggers like me. Every once in a while we’d get together on Zoom to talk shop. I’m sure one issue, doubt, would come up again and again. Not doubt in the factual … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone today: Democrats cannot wait for the midterms so they can lose and go back to letting the Republicans play the bad cop. This is who the Democrats are. It’s who they always will be. They let you have your Bernies … Read More »
My take on identity politics is explored more fully here …
The more superficial reader of my posts might conclude, given how often I have the USA in my sights as the most dangerous as well as lawless nation on earth, that I am anti-American. Not a bit of it. I’m … Read More »
This month brings that rarest of occurrences. I’m recommending a Guardian piece: a tour of the mind of Jeff Bezos. You wouldn’t want to live there but I promise a rewarding trip. Also, and for your instant erudition, we have … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone today. I haven’t written on Syria for some time but, for background, try my late 2019 post, the Kurds in Syria. As for the implicit and barely conscious default assumption on the part of most Western media consumers … Read More »
Seen just now on FB. Thank you Allan Edward Tierney for skewering the dangerous, barely conscious default assumption – nourished by Western education, news media, entertainment industries and other forms of drip-fed opinion manufacture – that “we” are the good guys. … Read More »
While it’s hard to understand how [Adrian] Zenz has gotten away with so much statistical malpractice, a look at his background helps explain his ideological motivations, and provides important context on his negative focus on the application of birth control. … Read More »