Roll over Sun Tsu, and tell von Clausewitz the news! Jeffrey Sachs yesterday, in a twenty-two minute dialogue with Danny Haiphong, excoriates Team Trump and Europe’s quislings in equal measure. Starting with this week’s flip-flop on Ukraine – “not tactics … Read More »
Three peak events last week were the murder of Charlie Kirk … more US-Israeli criminality in the Middle East, this time not against Iran but, after the genocidal ethno-state itself, Washington’s closest regional ‘ally’ … and the handful of Russian … Read More »
Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz in London last month A state whose economy is tanking while its leader prefers to strut the world stage, eyes fixed on (and $billions poured into) Project Ukraine as living standards plummet for his own citizens? … Read More »
* I urge a read of yesterday’s post, on Israel’s indefatigable capacity for bare-faced mendacity, by Caitlin Johnstone. Always delivering punchy but cogent reads, she has the literary adroitness of a Julie Burchill but without the moral insanity. I was … Read More »
Yesterday in the first twenty-five of seventy minutes with an interviewer unnamed and unknown to me, John Mearsheimer demonstrated both the astuteness and gravitas which keep me tuning in, and the limits to the “Offensive Realism” school of which the … Read More »
Like a stopped clock right twice a day, even a Guardian much criticised on this site – here and here for instance – managed a decent cartoon by Ella Barton on the mass arrests at London’s Parliament Square on Saturday … Read More »
Above, UK Telegraph gets it spectacularly wrong, November 8, 2024. Below, Kit Klarenberg yesterday. Amsterdam’s National Coordinator for Security and Counter-Terrorism (NCTV) has designated Israel a “state threat”. The agency’s annual assessment of “threat actors” for 2025 takes damning aim at … Read More »
At what point does simple spill over into simplistic? It’s not always an easy call, least of all amid the fog of war – any war, let alone the shifting currents and swirls of one linked in diverse ways to … Read More »
Britain’s right-wing Telegraph has its own reasons to crow over VDL/Brussels humiliation, but humiliation it assuredly was Four days ago I posted Part 3 of my ongoing series, Road to WW3. It outlined the case, not hard to make, that … Read More »
Long before I set up this site in 2015, it had become clear to me that the greatest threat to world peace is the US empire. The White House aide [thought to be Karl Rove] said guys like me were … Read More »