Category Archives: usa

We need to talk about Kim

26 Sep

I just did a Google search on genocide north korea. Here are the first six returns. [ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] Five refer to acts by the Pyongyang ‘regime’. One (the penultimate) talks of a massacre by the Seoul government, green-lighted by US … Read More »

Ruled by crooks, governed by liars

1 Sep

When Glenn Greenwald has something to say, I sit up and listen. Remember him? Litigation lawyer and journalist, he left the Guardian to co-found The Intercept but, unlike his colleague Naomi Klein, quit when the latter began subordinating truth to … Read More »

Blowback: Taliban target US shadow army

31 Aug

The Taliban aren’t searching and targeting civilians. They’re hunting down a CIA-created shadow army, two decades in the making, still underground in Afghanistan … Thousands of mercenaries with the potential to become an ersatz ISIS-K, and threaten Afghan entry into … Read More »

Until you realise …

22 Aug

Until you realise the Western world is ruled by criminals, and that corporate media’s first loyalty is not to truth but – via market discipline and beneath a show of fiery independence on lesser issues – to those criminals, you … Read More »

Afghanistan: who bears the costs?

17 Aug

I have at times spoken, here for instance, of America’s military-industrial complex as – inter alia – a way of transferring wealth within the USA from the many to the few. In the context of US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Caitlin … Read More »

Two new reads on Afghanistan

15 Aug

If western mass media were anything remotely resembling what they purport to be, they would be making sure the public understands how badly their government just fucked them. Instead it’s “Oh no, those poor Afghan women.”  Caitlin Johnstone It works … Read More »

Julian: yesterday’s High Court ruling

12 Aug

[ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end]London yesterday. Britain’s High Court has granted the US leave to expand its grounds for appealing an earlier UK court decision to block the extradition of Julian Assange to the USA. His slow journey toward a US jail for … Read More »