On May 1st, Democrat leaning site, The Hill – said to be “the largest independent political news site in the United States” and “ranked second among all US news sites for political readership” – posted this. Kinzinger introduces AUMF to … Read More »
I’ve set out in many posts my reasons and evidence for saying a proxy war in Ukraine is being driven by US determination to retain control of a dollarised world in the face of Eurasia rising. Yes, I’ve been left … Read More »
Forty years ago Michael Foot was enjoying, if that’s the word, his brief tenure as leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. The Argentinian leader, General Leopoldo Galtieri, had ordered the occupation of the Falkland or, if you prefer, Malvina Islands … Read More »
When will it sink in? While the brainwashed-whose-name-is-legion dance to that Zelenski good, Putin baad number we move closer to the unthinkable than at any time, Cuba ’62 not excepted, since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here’s former UK diplomat Alastair Crooke, … Read More »
The Steel City Household is leaving today, the steelmobile packed with camping, photography and canoeing kit – plus two canines and two humanoids – to head north for the border and Easter it out near Hawick in the Southern Uplands … Read More »
Posted today on her blogsite: A Love Letter To All Draft Dodgers The New York Times is naming and shaming Ukrainian men who’ve fled the country rather than stay and kill Russians for Washington, because it was illegal for men of military … Read More »
One of my many mental foibles is to turn innocuous numbers into historic dates. So when I read this morning at a most ungodly hour that a section of my site had drawn 1,857 visits this week, my brain cried … Read More »
No matter how many Ukrainians I talk to, it will still be an objective fact that the US government and western media have a well-documented history of lying about every war, and that wanting direct hot warfare between nuclear superpowers … Read More »
Ominously, Richard Sakwa’s book is no longer available in e-format. I say ominously because, even if its 2022 audience has not been deliberately narrowed as part of the wider information war waged by the US-led west, the fact it is … Read More »
The U.S. information war arsenal is unmatched because it controls the Internet and its main gatekeepers of content such as Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Wikipedia… It means the U.S. can exercise control over the noosphere, that “globe-spanning realm of … Read More »