See also yesterday’s post, Stop trivialising the term, coup! Below are my shamelessly cherry-picked highlights from a predictably flawed but highly entertaining piece today in the liberal centrist Middle East outlet, Al-Monitor. Turkey awash with schadenfreude over Capitol takeover A large … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone opens her post today: Stop trivializing the term “coup”. It’s a real thing the US government really inflicts on other countries in a way that actually does topple governments and cause immense destruction. You cannot take over the … Read More »
Jonathan Cook, today in CounterPunch: Assange Wins. The Cost: The Crushing of Press Freedom The unexpected decision by Judge Vanessa Baraitser to deny a US demand to extradite Julian Assange, foiling efforts to send him to a US super-max jail … Read More »
What would you do if stuck in a lift with John Pilger? Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, in a new book reviewed here by Media Lens, quotes with approval a fellow journalist saying he’d stick pins in his eyes to … Read More »
Avril Haines Writing in CounterPunch on Xmas Eve, Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd urge President-elect Biden: No Joe, Don’t Roll Out the Red Carpet for Torture Enablers It was painful enough to live through the U.S. invasion of Iraq that … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone today. NB, Caitlin backs up her assertions meticulously. This is commendable but does leave her posts looking like oceans of URLs. I’ve removed them here. Anyone wishing to check the basis on which she is making any claim … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone today. The mass media are reporting that the Biden camp has selected former general Lloyd J. Austin III to be the next secretary of defense, assuaging fears among antiwar activists that the position would go to bloodthirsty psychopath Michele Flournoy as commonly predicted. As has … Read More »
I hate to put it so rudely, but if you’re not disgusted, terrified and incandescent in broadly equal measure then you’re either in need of a brain transplant or – more likely – one of the millions of sleep walkers … Read More »
At the beginning of this month the most dangerous nation on earth held the four yearly circus by which presidents and other occupants of high office are chosen. Four weeks on, so much has been written, some of it by … Read More »
Extract from an interview with Christopher Black, described by Finian Cunnigham, on the Information Clearing House site, as: a renowned international defense lawyer based in Canada, specializing in war crimes. He served as a legal advisor to Serbian President Slobodan … Read More »