The Britain’s Telegraph newspaper, November 8, 2024 Gaslighting for Israel continues apace, regardless of the hit to corporate media credibility, but as Newton helpfully pointed out, “every action has an equal and opposite reaction”. Coverage of Thursday’s events in Amsterdam triggered … Read More »
I’m on sabbatical from politics as I rubber-tramp the north east (again) so, as I sit with laptop in a Redcar pub with wi-fi, will confine myself to saying that, as in 2016, I can’t share the despair or despondence … 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 »
When we pay attention to what John Mearsheimer says in that stellar debate with Jeffrey Sachs, featured in yesterday’s post, two things are clear. One is his insistence that the US-led proxy war – fighting Russia down to the last … Read More »
I ended the previous post, on the Children who rule the West, with this promise: Coming soon: the zero sum addiction of the West’s rulers, versus China’s we win-you win. Before I move on to fulfilling it, I want to show a video … Read More »
Mario Draghi, banker and author of the Ursula von der Leyen commissioned report, The future of European competitiveness – A competitiveness strategy for Europe My previous post, The West’s poltroons and Quislings, should have read: Europe’s poltroons and quislings. Other … Read More »
Calling out the Quislings are, left to right, Dimitri Lascaris, Michael Hudson, Radhika Desai It being Sunday I feel empowered – lovely word that, but where was it for most of my 70+ spins round the sun? – to offer … Read More »
Presbyterian Minister Chris Hedges, speaking at a Free Assange Rally in London, February 20, 2024 A few hours after the Harris-Trump debate yesterday – for a wicked assessment of that, see Caitlin Johnstone’s post today – my favourite pastor, the … Read More »
August 20 2024 – “Hotties for Harris” pose at the DNC in Chicago An Orwellian disconnect haunts the 2024 Democratic National Convention. In the isolation of the convention hall, shielded from the outside world behind thousands of armed police, few of … Read More »
“I’m not a foreign agent but a journalist. What the US government did yesterday was a frontal assault on a free press. That the Russian government and I have coinciding views on critical issues of the day might reflect that … Read More »