Five days ago, on June 26, the Icelandic newspaper Stundin broke a story that should have been explosive. In an interview lasting several hours, Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson – a key FBI witness in the US case against Julian Assange – … Read More »
See also, Reading the middle east: part 1 * Topping the returns for a search on “full spectrum dominance” is a wiki page citing Harold Pinter’s 2005 Nobel Prize acceptance speech: … the United States is now totally frank about putting its cards on … Read More »
“Those who looked the other way, because they disliked Julian Assange, when the Department of Justice indicted him on a legal theory – that publishing clear public interest journalism could constitute multiple Espionage Act violations – should reconsider where that … Read More »
So I didn’t lose you with my unforgivable use of the d-word in the title? Excellent. I’ve several times on this site found cause to roll out one of my favourite Caitlin Johnstone quotes: In 200 years we’ve progressed from … Read More »
Capitol Hill, Wednesday June 23. At a Senate Armed Services budget hearing, General Mark Milley – Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and by that fact the highest ranking officer in the US Military – gave what Washington Post … Read More »
The Royal Naval destroyer, HMS Defender Having a jail sentence hanging over him is doing nothing to stop courageous whistle-blower Craig Murray from calling out an increasingly criminal empire, and the willingness of its John Bull junior partner to do … Read More »
A thousand years of English law whooshed out the window with what this courtroom travesty inflicted on Assange, and scarcely a peep in our cowardly corporate media. Writing yesterday in CounterPunch on how Washington’s deeds show its true regard for … Read More »
On June 15, a day before the Biden-Putin summit two days ago, Moon of Alabama considered two corporate media explanations for there being no joint news conference afterwards … the US did not want to elevate Putin, and/or Putin might … Read More »
I’m both delighted and embarrassed – more the former – to discover that my news earlier today of economist Michael Hudson’s death was greatly exaggerated. A comment by bevin, below, showed me that I had the wrong Michael Hudson; a political scientist … Read More »
Guardian yesterday. The above is a still from this footage … … which is billed as showing “debris from China’s largest rocket falling to Earth”. Not only is there no comparable footage for a US rocket launch, but even the … Read More »