I’ve been seeing some choice Alt-media headlines these past few days. Like Caitlin’s World’s most tyrannical government wants to free Venezuela from tyranny, followed the next day by her Sorry if this is antisemitic but I think it’s wrong to … Read More »
Commenting on my post of November 7, Let’s talk about Venezuela, reader Jams O’Donnell cited Military Watch on the possibility that Russia: … will introduce the US to their own Ukraine on their own doorstep. As well as recently signing … Read More »
Murdoch’s WSJ, November 30 Normally it never would have occurred to the average westerner that a country on the other side of the planet should be invaded and its leader replaced with a puppet regime. That’s not the sort of … Read More »
My posts on America’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine are legion. All make the irrefutable case that a dying US empire, not “Putin’s aggression”, is the conflict’s root and ongoing cause. The most decisive rebuttal of the ‘Putin’s war’ … Read More »
Three fundamental and interwoven differences separate the outlook of sites like this from the mainstream. One is the latter’s blindness to class rule, a second its blindness to the US empire, the third its belief in news media capacity to … Read More »
Guardian, November 12 2025 My previous post was a whistlestop, first call Venezuela. On empire’s need, always easily met, for a comprador elite inside a targeted country – “ideally with one of its own as head of state” – I made … Read More »
The sun never set on it – at once both literal truth and vainglorious boast Caitlin’s post today took stock of differences between the British and US empires – direct rule colonialism versus indirect rule by an imperialism I define … Read More »
When I ponder on liberalism at its best (not that I spend a heap of time doing any such thing) I can think of no finer example than Jeffrey Sachs. Like his friend John Mearsheimer – featured in my last … Read More »
Remember that Castlemaine XXXX ad from the eighties? The one where blame for a collapsed pick-up in the Ozzie outback is attributed not to crate after crate of lager bearing down on its creaking suspension, but to two bottles of … Read More »
When Caitlin Johnstone invited us – see my post of two days ago, On the nature and origins of Islamism – to “think about the hatred and savagery you’d need to summon up within yourself to gouge the eyes out of … Read More »