A blistering piece appeared yesterday on the World Socialist Website. For once it eschews the “China is no better” trope so often marring WSWS analyses. And for once it doesn’t do that rabbit-from-a-hat trick, in the final or penultimate paragraph, … Read More »
Thanks to my Facebook friend Hoi Yat Tsoi for alerting me to this. Guyana born Hong Kong resident and blogger Daniel Dumbrill debates with US based journalist and former Vietnam veteran Paul Mooney on what is – and what is … Read More »
The River Soar yesterday. What follows is less pretty. I’m promoting three reads here, starting with Caitlin Johnstone’s post today: Humanity Is Still Trying To Be Born Things are fucked. That’s our current situation in a nutshell. In a slightly … Read More »
The Rittenhouse case is about emotion. It is about history, identity and a widening tribal divide … Intensifying tribalism in the US is not accidental but deeply tied to a turbo-charged capitalism that seeks profit from every last seam of … Read More »
Above is the illustration for the cover story of next month’s issue of The Atlantic, mouthpiece for US liberalism. Before I get to that story, here’s former Guardian writer Jonathan Cook, as cited in my recent post on FB ‘whistleblower’ … Read More »
Well intentioned but not so well informed people often assert the universality of human rights in ways that unwittingly serve the agendas of power. How could they not? Our awareness of (a) where human rights violations are said to take … Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »