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 »
In affectionate memory of Martin Jordin, who introduced me to Marxism and YEARS later followed me (I DARE SAY unknowingly) into the practice of meditation. Martin on October 21, 2023, at one of the first Sheffield rallies following Al Aqsa … Read More »
Eyup, I’ll tell thee a story. In 1988 I was doing a Ph.D on computing tools for writers. I was also teaching a few hours a week in the computing department at a Sheffield City Polytechnic soon to gain university … Read More »
The government can’t say who’s committing fraud or how much it really costs – if they could, they’d be catching the actual fraudsters instead of building a surveillance system to monitor everyone’s bank accounts. They’re using a mathematical model based … Read More »