Times of Israel, June 17 2025 * Yesterday Dimitris Konstantakopoulos, former colleague of Yanis Varoufakis in the government of a people royally shafted by EU/EC/IMF in 2015, wrote in Defend Democracy Press under the self explanatory title I have adopted … Read More »
There are decades, said Lenin, when little happens. And weeks (though he might with no loss of accuracy have said days or even hours) when decades happen. Not a hundred hours ago I wrote of the big question being: how … Read More »
Yesterday Israel and the US Neocons finally got what they’ve sought for at least a quarter of a century: hot war on Iran. The big question now being, how will Iran respond? In my previous post – It’s regime change, … Read More »
* In the early hours of today, Israel, with every sign not just of US approval but its involvement at all stages of the planning … I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them, in … Read More »
Then there’s 9/11. Whatever the truth of that – and I ate my share of humble pie – it greenlit the War on Terror within the West to fast track a Patriot Act (and non US equivalents) while making free with such rule-of-law fundamentals … Read More »
Social programs do not die in committee rooms; they die in the realm of justification. Through the threat of looming abandonment by Uncle Sam, German voters will accept that their €49 rail ticket cannot be renewed because the Bundeswehr needs … Read More »
In a preamble to yesterday’s post on the world’s first livestreamed genocide – Gaza: lies and ‘spiritual’ cant – I promised a return, later in the week, to the ultimately related matter of: … America’s proxy war on Russia in … Read More »
This from Ken Klippenstein – US journalist, former colleague of Naomi Klein, Mehdi Hasan and Glenn Greenwald at the Intercept, and prolific issuer of Freedom of Information Requests to US federal and state governments – following yesterday’s fatal shootings at … Read More »
See also, Those Houthi Missiles Part 1 The situation as I see it: Israel commits brazen genocide on a civilian population coralled in what many sources, some of them Israeli, have called a giant concentration camp. Disregarding the clearest signals, … Read More »
* Part 1 set the context for Trump’s tariff mayhem in US elites having for decades found it more profitable to shift manufacturing to the global south, while transforming the domestic economy into one led by interest yielding FIRE – … Read More »