Call me biased if you will. I was hooked on Pink Floyd at fourteen, with Piper at the Gates of Dawn and the hit single, See Emily Play. That was May ’67 and I’ve been listening ever since. I’m not … Read More »
Craig Murray was UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan until Tony Blair sacked him for revealing that Uzbeki leader Islam Karimov was not only robbing his impoverished country blind but had the habit of boiling political prisoners alive. This was embarrassing. Karimov … Read More »
this post also features on offguardian This video may cause distress. Taken by their Isis captors in May 2016, it shows the humiliation of two Syrian soldiers prior to their roadside execution. Now read on … * Michael Hudson, described … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone in top satiric form today. Dems Should Do The Sensible Thing And Nominate A Moderate Rapacious Psychopath Editor’s note: In order to circumvent internet censorship, today’s Caitlin Johnstone essay has been replaced with an op-ed by Snooty McCentrist … Read More »
The Roaring Twenties began with a bang. Whatever else the decade may bring, chronologers will look back on its opening fortnight as momentous. The tone was set by the January 3 hit on General Quassem Suleimani, followed five days later … Read More »
For me the scariest thing is not that the world is ruled by gangsters – a criminal elite with the US ruling class its top mafia family. It is that this particular family, and the lesser criminals who ride its … Read More »
I’ve been guilty of this myself so know what I’m talking about here. *
Caitlin Johnstone today on the Rogue State’s refusal to leave: If the initial invasion of Iraq was a violent sexual assault by a stranger in a dark alley, this one is more like an abusive husband raping his wife then … Read More »