Social programs do not die in committee rooms; they die in the realm of justification. Through the threat of looming abandonment by Uncle Sam, German voters will accept that their €49 rail ticket cannot be renewed because the Bundeswehr needs … Read More »
In a preamble to yesterday’s post on the world’s first livestreamed genocide – Gaza: lies and ‘spiritual’ cant – I promised a return, later in the week, to the ultimately related matter of: … America’s proxy war on Russia in … Read More »
This from Ken Klippenstein – US journalist, former colleague of Naomi Klein, Mehdi Hasan and Glenn Greenwald at the Intercept, and prolific issuer of Freedom of Information Requests to US federal and state governments – following yesterday’s fatal shootings at … Read More »
See also, Those Houthi Missiles Part 1 The situation as I see it: Israel commits brazen genocide on a civilian population coralled in what many sources, some of them Israeli, have called a giant concentration camp. Disregarding the clearest signals, … Read More »
* Part 1 set the context for Trump’s tariff mayhem in US elites having for decades found it more profitable to shift manufacturing to the global south, while transforming the domestic economy into one led by interest yielding FIRE – … Read More »
A week ago Chris Hedges introduced a guest on his YouTube channel with these sombre words: The final stages of capitalism, Karl Marx wrote, will be marked by developments intimately familiar. Unable to expand, and generate profits at past levels, … Read More »
I get physically ill watching liberals complain about Donald Trump, instead of what made people desperate enough to vote for him – Reverend Chris Hedges It’s difficult to get a man to see a truth his salary depends on him not … Read More »
I get physically ill watching liberals complain about Donald Trump, instead of what made people desperate enough to vote for him – Reverend Chris Hedges Trump represents greater continuity of foreign policy than either his detractors or admirers recognise – steel city … Read More »
* Eight days ago ago the European Commission, executive body of the EU, issued a statement by its president, Ursula von der Leyen. This is its opening paragraph: We are living in the most momentous and dangerous of times. I … Read More »
It is impossible for a rational person acquainted with even a fraction of the relevant facts, and acting in good faith, to do other than conclude that Russia was intentionally provoked to the point where her special military operation in the … Read More »