Thanks again to Dave Hansell for this. Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton named the effect after his friend, the Nobel Prize winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann. Crichton describes it thus: You open a newspaper to an article on a subject you … Read More »
Four days ago on FB, The Economist was plugging its latest attack on Beijing. Click on the image to go to the Facebook post and ensuing comment I responded: That capitalists are subordinate to state policy is horrifying to the … Read More »
Posted two days ago on Facebook by the Free Assange Committee (Germany). Das Schicksal meines Sohnes wird die ZUKUNFT aller FREIEN Menschen sein, die ihre Stimme gegen die Tyrannei und Korruption der REGIERUNGEN erheben A day later, yesterday, Christine’s words … Read More »
Above is the illustration for the cover story of next month’s issue of The Atlantic, mouthpiece for US liberalism. Before I get to that story, here’s former Guardian writer Jonathan Cook, as cited in my recent post on FB ‘whistleblower’ … Read More »
This is what’s at stake in the Assange case. Our right to know what the most deadly elements of the most powerful governments on our planet are doing. That they think it legitimate to imprison anyone who tries to show … Read More »
Is there no shabby trick too low in the sinophobic outpourings of every segment – ‘quality’ as much as tabloid, financial as much as generalist – of the West’s corporate media? Hong Kong based Nuri Vitachi, cited in my post … Read More »
Is Facebook’s Frances Haugen a whistleblower? Clearly not in the sense that Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning, Daniel Halesworth and Katharine Gun are. But is there any sense in which she can be said to be one? A month … Read More »
Remembrance Sunday in Moffat, Scotland, 2016 And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day. Shakespeare – Henry V, … Read More »
My integrity, which I hold very dear, has been repeatedly and publicly questioned. I am totally innocent of what I have been accused of and I acted at all times in the interests of public health and safety. Owen Paterson … Read More »