When I say I was wrong about Syria, I don’t mean I’ve at last acknowledged Bashar al-Assad to be the monster depicted by an empire-serving propaganda blitz for which ‘universalists’ Owen Jones and George Monbiot gave left-liberal cover. While I’ve … Read More »
Podcasting a few hours after I’d posted on the fall of Assad, Brian Berletic moved from an incisive thirty-five minute exposition on what happened, to a more general observation: Although the multipolar world grows economically, even militarily; surpassing the US … Read More »
Three video shorts, average duration twelve minutes, hand-picked by The Steel City Elders for your enlightenment and ongoing edification. They begin with the significance of Kazakhstan, western neighbour to Xinjiang, north-eastern neighbour to Afghanistan and scene of the failed US … Read More »
Part 3 opened with the Greater Israel aims of men like Itamar Ben-Gvr and Bezalel Smotrich. While their messianic vision does not directly encroach on Iran’s territorial integrity … … its eastern borders would push it towards the Islamic Republic … Read More »
The territorial aspirations of Israel’s religious Right, by no means confined to West Bank settlers who deem the bible a Deed of Entitlement which trumps international law, look for legitimacy to conflictual texts written between the 7th and 1st centuries … Read More »
Netanyahu is doing just what the US wants. The dream of Netanyahu is the dream of the US neo-cons: war with Iran. If you can conquer Iran, you close up everything between Israel and Iran. You take up Syria, Iraq; … Read More »
My third in a row on the overreach of the mediocrities managing with breath-taking ineptitude the West’s accelerating decline. Below yesterday’s post – see Europe aside, the world wants Trump – Bryan commented: Mark Sleboda worries that a Trump presidency … Read More »
The world is witnessing an irreversible shift to multipolarity. Four days ago I wrote of a duality now playing out between a fading – hence triply dangerous – hegemon, and the restoration of Westphalian principles of the sovereignty of nation states; … Read More »
Corporate media may speak truth to power on matters not crucial to the latter. (Indeed, market forces may demand it.) But all corporate media are obliged to speak power to truth on matters which are. Such as demonising Russia for … Read More »
Don’t be fooled by the title, “Russia is DESTROYING Ukraine’s Army”. It’s misleading. And not because Russia isn’t doing precisely that but because this video is about something else. Don’t be fooled either by Scott Ritter’s folksy manner. In just … Read More »