On her site today, Caitlin Johnstone writes: Warmongering Republicans Have Throbbing Hard-Ons For Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip Octogenarian House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has decided to spend her final years on this mortal coil trying to start World War Three, pushing the Biden administration to … Read More »
The ferocity of the confrontation in Ukraine shows that we’re talking about much more than the fate of the regime in Kiev. The architecture of the entire world order is at stake.” Sergei Naryshkin, Director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence. The … Read More »
The neocon outlook is based on an overriding false premise: that the US military, financial, technological, and economic superiority enables it to dictate terms in all regions of the world. It is a position of both remarkable hubris and remarkable … Read More »
One measure of the deep sleep in which the vast majority of Westerners are immersed is that the decision on Friday by British Home Secretary Priti Patel – to allow the extradition of Julian Assange to the near certainty of … Read More »
Appearing this morning on WSWS: US squanders $80,000 every minute on nuclear weapons The United States spends over $80,000 every single minute on nuclear weapons, more than every single country in the world combined, according to a new report by the … Read More »
One nation is circling the planet with hundreds of military bases, continually working to destroy any nation who disobeys it, and has spent the 21st century killing people by the millions. It isn’t Russia. It isn’t China. You have to … Read More »
River Brede in East Sussex, close to Battle near Hastings and fifteen miles upstream of Rye Wise words from a friend of several years, though we’ve not met face to face. Commenting on No way out but war, my May … Read More »
G’day world! I’ve been quoting Caitlin Johnstone so often of late that the steel city keyboard’s picked up an Ozzie twang. Fair dinkum though. She’ll be right, mate. I’ve said nothing of Shireeen Abu Akleh, the 51-year-old Palestinian-American of whom, … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone today: The US House of Representatives has voted 368-57 to spend $40 billion on a world-threatening proxy war while ordinary Americans struggle to feed themselves and their children. All 57 “no” votes were Republicans. Every member of the small faction … Read More »
The neo-Nazi Azov Battalion on parade in Ukraine This makes two posts in a row I’ve handed over to Caitlin Johnstone, corporate mass media being incapable of telling the truth on matters vital to power. Not just oligarch ownership – … Read More »