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 »
Only connect, said Edward Morgan Forster. Sound advice, but to apply it with accuracy we need detailed facts, and axiomatic principles to organise them in evidence based narratives. I know intelligent men and women, whom I like and love and … Read More »
So Bruce Springsteen – a man I’ve admired since 1978 and The Wild, The Innocent and The E-Street Shuffle – is supporting Kamala Harris. Those who follow this site will know my dismay does not arise from an equally deluded … Read More »
I ended the previous post, on the Children who rule the West, with this promise: Coming soon: the zero sum addiction of the West’s rulers, versus China’s we win-you win. Before I move on to fulfilling it, I want to show a video … Read More »
Commenting yesterday, September 16, on the second attempt in under two months on the life of Donald Trump, Caitlin Johnstone opined: Trump supporters are again touting it as evidence the Deep State is after their man, but I’m not buying … Read More »
A placard I saw on an 800,000 strong London protest rally, thirty-four days after the onset on October 8th of genocide in Gaza, supplied the title for my photographs of that rally: Even now, after ten further months of mass … Read More »