See my post of six years ago on this Chris Hedges, yesterday: Trump, Epstein and the Deep State The Trump administration’s refusal to release the Epstein files and videos is done not only to protect Trump, but the ruling class. … Read More »
In this warped and twisted madhouse, we are trained to believe that “success” is making a lot of money, earning large amounts of esteem and adoration, having a certain body type, living in the right neighborhood in the right kind … Read More »
A drawing room in the west wing at Steel City House Concluding my review last year of a movie based on a Martin Amis novel about the Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, who live with their family … Read More »
I’ve been using the word a lot these past five hundred and ninety-six days. Maybe you have too. But what does it mean? Here’s the UN General Assembly definition, coming into force on January 12 1951. Convention on the Prevention … Read More »
Commenting on the May 1st byelections in England – Could the two party Labour and Tory dominated political system be over? – Richard Murphy had this to say of rising support for Nigel Farage’s far right Reform Party: [Labour and … Read More »
A near constant of this site is that a once progressive capitalism – the predominant system for organising social relations to produce and daily reproduce the material conditions of human existence – now threatens us and most other life forms … Read More »
The Independent yesterday: Sharon Osbourne has called for the Irish rap group Kneecap to have their US work visas revoked after their politicised Coachella performance. The trio – who starred in their own self-titled Bafta-winning film in 2024 – displayed a … Read More »
As more and more westerners grow disgusted with Israel and their governments’ support for its depravity, the far left is going to talk to the public about the difference between Zionism and Judaism, about the western empire and its interests … Read More »
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 »