Category Archives: usa

Thanks to Ian Jenkins, the FB pal who alerted me to a useful profile of the man spearheading the US oil grab – again I use the term as shorthand for a longer list of predatory motives driving the build … Read More »

I may have to start a regular feature with this as the generic title. Caitlin Johnston is too damn quotable not to! Here she is today: Everyone knows on some level the US government has a consistent and indisputable track … Read More »

Even some who oppose America’s blatant oil grab – I use the term as shorthand for a longer list of predatory motives for this latest ‘humanitarian intervention’ – are writing drivel on Maduro’s “failure”. The image below links to a … Read More »

Let’s cut to the chase. Most people, Western intelligentsia very much included, fail to grasp the nature of imperialism (see economics of imperialism and two minute guide to imperialism). This is understandable. We’ve been raised from infancy on the benignity … Read More »

An admirer of Pepe Escobar’s well informed writings, I was keen to read his Information Clearing House (ICH) piece yesterday. He begins. Cold War 2.0 has hit South America with a bang – pitting the US and expected minions against … Read More »

My writing cost me a friend this week. It happens. Not often, but it always hurts. Then I remind myself that the world does not throw itself at the feet of those who write as I do. I pick myself … Read More »