Other than all being gamekeepers turned poacher – establishment figures, including but not confined to the military, now sternly critical of their countries’ elites and media narratives – what do the following have in common: Jacques Baud, Karen Kwiotkowski, Douglas … Read More »
Who has the upper hand in a bar room fight? The biggest and strongest? The martial arts ace? Maybe. But more often than not the person who’ll take things to the limit wins the fight before it’s even started. Are … Read More »
My last post but one asked, Does Washington want war with Iran? It noted the many pundits, critical of the USA, who also deem it subservient to Israel through such as the AIPAC. Thanks to that subservience, they further claim, there’s … Read More »
Amid the red mists of war, and swirling uncertainty of times which bear out Lenin’s adage that there are decades when nothing happens – and weeks where decades happen, commentators who’ve earned the right to be taken seriously may differ … Read More »
One of the many virtues of Melbourne blogger Caitlin Johnstone is her knack for skewering the lies which fill the air we breathe and no longer notice … Western civilization is dominated by a power structure that has invested more … Read More »
I don’t much like red lines and am suspicious of the motives of Leftists and Libertarians intent on drawing them all over the place: Wrong take on 9/11? … Syria? … Russia? … Covid-19? Dude, that’s you off my list … Read More »
Today is the holiest of the year for non-Orthodox Christians. Millions will pay tribute to a man they say was the Son of God, sent to earth in human form to preach and work miracles then go as foretold to … Read More »
Touched on in my post of March 2 – Gaza to Rochdale – was a sensational New York Times “scoop” on rape, allegedly weaponised by Hamas on October 7. This image opened the NYT story – “Screams without words”: How Hamas … Read More »
Two posts back I called him the “silver-tongued bruiser o’ Dundee”. Here, on a late night show ten years before being returned as the Right Honourable Member for Rochdale, he responds to the audience member – and political editor – … Read More »
It’s rare for me to have a good word for Piers Morgan, a combative corporate media interviewer in his way reminiscent of Jeremy Paxman, while I often cite approvingly Professor Mearsheimer. A leading exponent of political realism, his prescient warnings … Read More »