Donald Trump’s Hitlerian deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller … … has an equally obnoxious wife. On January 3, twelve hours after the world digested news of the US kidnapping of Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro, Katie Miller took to ‘X’ … Read More »
* When criminals show their true face, believe them. Here’s George Bush at a black tie dinner 20 years ago for Radio and TV journalists, joking to sycophantic applause about the elusive WMD in Iraq. Those WMD being the casus … Read More »
Nicolás Maduro two days ago in DEA released footage How can a man as savvy as Richard Murphy is on economics be so clueless on geopolitics? I’ve been asking myself that for four years while watching the man intone the … Read More »
Above and below, US strikes on Caracas – El Pais, January 3 * It’s a measure of the immaturity of the gadfly Andrew Korybko that his response to today’s news, of the criminal act of a criminal empire, was not to … Read More »
Merry Xmas one and all. Yesterday on Xmas Eve ‘offensive realist‘ Professor John Mearsheimer met up with Judge Andrew Napolitano on his Judging Freedom show for a half-hour discussion of US foreign policy – if that’s not too grand a … Read More »
On December 5 – Venezuela: follow-through or dial-down? – I provided in single paragraph summaries the arguments for and against the likelihood of American piracy in the Caribbean escalating into full-on war to effect regime change in Caracas. I concluded … Read More »
An opinion piece in the Jerusalem Post yesterday: December 21, 2025. Bondi massacre was not about free speech – it’s the cost of normalizing antisemitism It’s written by one Sharon Pardo, who begins: The Hanukkah attack in Sydney was a terrorist … Read More »
Unless you’re one of them there coincidence theorists, you might suspect co-ordinated effort to capitalise on Bondi Beach to delegitimise protest at Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. Several of my posts – here and here and here and here – since Sunday have in different ways warned of precisely that. … Read More »
Another AI generated synthesis – I shudder at the implications – in this return, in the context of US thuggery in the Caribbean, to Yanis Varoufakis. This crisp and powerful analysis of the stakes and implications, delivered in a shade … Read More »
Guardian, December 11 2025 Hear John Mearsheimer’s ten minute response to the news of yesterday’s seizure. It’s repetitive, which is not the professor’s style, while occasional strange pauses suggest an AI stitch together. Worth watching all the same, but you … Read More »