Four hours ago, according to the New York Times, Epstein hanged himself at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. Maybe he did at that. Who really knows? All I know are these three things: He faced forty-five years in jail … Read More »
Thanks to Piers Robinson for posting a FB link to this admirably lucid piece by Dubliner Oliver Boyd-Barrett. Professor emeritus at Bowling Green State University, Boyd-Barrett is is author of“RussiaGate and Propaganda: Disinformation in the Age of Social Media”. Writing … Read More »
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Every once in a while I try to make sense of otherwise savvy people who refuse to see a reality staring us in the face: that on any number of metrics the USA is the world’s most lawless state. * … Read More »
For a characteristically witty piece on “President Bolton”, see Caitlin Johnstone in fine form with a post four days ago and viewable here. But this Daily Beast offering from thirteen months ago, on the man’s appointment to National Security Advisor, … Read More »
Sweden’s Deputy Director of Public Prosecution, Eva-Marie Persson, telling a May 13 press conference Sweden is to seek extradition Confused about Assange? You’re meant to be. That’s how dirty tricks work: witness the tobacco lobby’s sowing of doubt on the … Read More »
Video proof here …
I’ve been a fan of this tiny country since my visit in April 2017. Now I’m a bigger fan. Thanks Ian Jenkins for this extract from Portuguese journalist Marta Pacheco’s December 2016 interview with Ögmundur Jónasson, Icelandic Minister for the … Read More »