After a few days off duty I’d intended to return today with a post on US backed Islamist terror in Syria. It’ll have to wait, two things having distracted me. One being the Dawn French apology for an Instagram video … Read More »
When I entered this world the USA had been a nuclear power for seven years, the Soviet Union for three. Britain would explode its first device the following month off the north west coast of Australia; France and China a … Read More »
Guardian: June 1, 2025 – note the “military Keynesianism” spin Even with the eyewatering costs of Berlin’s slavish desire to please Washington at the expense of its own citizens factored in, the German economy is still in better shape than … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone’s post today is penned with her customary directness under the header, It’s A Complete Lie To Say Gaza Can Have Peace If Hamas Surrenders. After backing this claim with statements from the Netanyahu and Trump administrations to show … Read More »
Rapper Lowkey at a rally for the woke-abandoned Julian Assange, October 2021 This follow up to Gaza – hats off to Gary Lineker features George Galloway’s Mother of All Talk Shows, and the guest he introduces as: a professor of the … Read More »
Though I’d rather he hadn’t apologised … Before I get to the principled sports presenter and former England, Spurs and Barcelona striker axed by the BBC on Sunday, ostensibly for failing to spot an antisemitic emoji; in fact for calling … Read More »
Millions of people … … swarming like flies round Well maybe not millions. Middle East Eye says half a million. All bound for Downing Street … … to say there ain’t no both-cidesing a genoside. With the same kit she’s … Read More »
Me neither, but nineteen months on we’re still protesting Today I awoke on a London street that doesn’t have resident-only parking, having passed the night in the van. I’m about to have breakfast and coffee before taking a bus to … 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 »