Dark side of the state: Waters on Assange
2
Nov
Category Archives: usa
38 years ago today
26
Oct
I’m fond of the motto, improvise and overcome. I use it a lot but maybe it’s time to find a new one. It’s the catch-phrase of Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway, a grizzled veteran who does frequent battle with the US … Read More »
Demo for Julian: my day in pictures
24
Oct
Saturday, October 23. We marched from BBC Broadcasting House on Portland Place to the Royal Courts of Justice by the Aldwych. It’s there, on Wednesday and Thursday, that the US appeal – against the August denial of its request to … Read More »
Talking WW3 Blues – again …
13
Oct
In an opinion piece last month, Hu Xijin, editor of China’s English language daily, Global Times, wrote that: The risk of a China-US military confrontation has increased, and mutual trust dropped to almost zero. If the wind blows the door … Read More »
Mother takes sons to see dad …
11
Oct
Free Julian Assange!
We need to talk about Kim
26
Sep
I just did a Google search on genocide north korea. Here are the first six returns. An axiomatic understanding all sane and well intentioned folk, whatever their political stripe, are fully signed up for. No matter that what the average … Read More »
Ruled by crooks, governed by liars
1
Sep
When Glenn Greenwald has something to say, I sit up and listen. Remember him? Litigation lawyer and journalist, he left the Guardian to co-found The Intercept but, unlike his colleague Naomi Klein, quit when the latter began subordinating truth to … Read More »
Blowback: Taliban target US shadow army
31
Aug
The Taliban aren’t searching and targeting civilians. They’re hunting down a CIA-created shadow army, two decades in the making, still underground in Afghanistan … Thousands of mercenaries with the potential to become an ersatz ISIS-K, and threaten Afghan entry into … Read More »
Flee Kabul for just $6.5k
26
Aug
Wall Street Journal, August 25: Erik Prince is no stranger to monetising human suffering. He founded Blackwater, whose antics in Baghdad in 2007 drew down a search beam on the world of Western ‘security’ firms in post invasion Iraq. These … Read More »