Nuseirat refugee camp after Israel’s bombardment of Gaza on March 18, 2025. (Photo by Moiz Salhi) Philistines call it “mansplaining” but for those who seek to make sense of a world whose most perilous aspect is a dying empire fighting … Read More »
Yesterday morning, in writing my intro to Paul Knaggs’s skewering of one instantiation of the heartless idiocies of Team Starmer, I picked up on Mr Knaggs having quoted Naomi Klein’s splendid work: I can’t recommend Shock Doctrine too highly. It rides the … Read More »
There can be a temptation to sit back and cheerlead for this or that state or militant group and say they’re going to bring the empire to its knees, but really it isn’t their responsibility to end the western empire. … Read More »
Path from Stanage Edge to Redmires, Sheffield. April 2024 * * *
The year now ending saw a record number of elections in the West. In not one of them did the decline of Western supremacy feature. Like the proverbial elephant, it was addressed by neither America’s duopoly nor Britain’s. The same … Read More »
Commenting today on news that New York prosecutors have charged Luigi Mangione with “murder as an act of terrorism” over the shooting of health insurance CEO Brian Thompson, Caitlin Johnstone writes: … the label “terrorist” is a tool of narrative control, … Read More »
A few months ago a reader asked a rhetorical question. Why, she demanded, should we trust those who can’t call a genocide a genocide on anything at all? I’ve since used it a number of times, most recently when someone … Read More »
Should he live long enough – and not receive one of those pardons Latin American leaders are wont to confer on fellow kleptocrats – Alejandro Celestino Toledo will be ninety-nine when he finally leaves his jail cell. Born into the … Read More »
Years ago I ran this as my masthead quote. Though focused on the USA, it applies to the West at large. As I sipped my coffee this morning and gathered my thoughts for part 3 of my nail-biting series, US … Read More »
Most of those who judge historic evils correctly in hindsight are sleepwalking through their present-day reiteration in Palestine … Those who stood against such evil at the time were by definition a minority, else they wouldn’t have happened in the … Read More »