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 »
[ezcol_1half]A few months after the Maidan Coup of 2014, a professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent wrote a book I see as the best single source on the complex history and culture of a country … 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 »
In a recent post I compared a hypothetical with an actual situation: [ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] Washington would never for a moment tolerate – both Monroe Doctrine and Latin America’s bloody history of US backed repression say so loud and clear – … Read More »
This war was engineered in Washington, and could be over this afternoon should Washington make the modest concessions needed to stop it. But that’s the last thing DC desires. Ukrainians and Russians will die needlessly. Plummeting living standards in the … Read More »