Reactions to Team Biden’s U-turn: Forbes business magazine, November 19, 2024 Caitlin Johnstone, November 20, 2024 British tabloid exclusive reveals that Sir Keir – his permanently puzzled look that of a man unable to know what a genocide looks like … Read More »
The Britain’s Telegraph newspaper, November 8, 2024 Gaslighting for Israel continues apace, regardless of the hit to corporate media credibility, but as Newton helpfully pointed out, “every action has an equal and opposite reaction”. Coverage of Thursday’s events in Amsterdam triggered … Read More »
Though Western media are systemically corrupt, they do not always deceive and distract. On many matters the BBC, Washington Post, Guardian, Economist, CNN and the like bring useful facts and an informed eye to matters not at all trivial; abortion, … Read More »
Some of us have being saying since early 2022 – see Yes, Ukraine IS in the grip of Nazis – that Zelensky has been a captive of far right and viciously antisemitic “nationalists” since the day he took office in … Read More »
We don’t yet know if Hassan Nasrallah – subject of my post two days ago, What is Hezbollah? – was killed by Israel’s terrorist attack on Beirut on Friday evening. Given that Israeli leaders lie the moment their lips move, … Read More »
The Economist today, September 27 2024, highlighting added In this week’s contents round up, Economist Editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes writes: This month I spent a week in Ukraine. Together with my expert colleagues, Oliver Carroll and Arkady Ostrovsky, and our … Read More »
When we pay attention to what John Mearsheimer says in that stellar debate with Jeffrey Sachs, featured in yesterday’s post, two things are clear. One is his insistence that the US-led proxy war – fighting Russia down to the last … Read More »
Mario Draghi, banker and author of the Ursula von der Leyen commissioned report, The future of European competitiveness – A competitiveness strategy for Europe My previous post, The West’s poltroons and Quislings, should have read: Europe’s poltroons and quislings. Other … Read More »
Calling out the Quislings are, left to right, Dimitri Lascaris, Michael Hudson, Radhika Desai It being Sunday I feel empowered – lovely word that, but where was it for most of my 70+ spins round the sun? – to offer … Read More »
My posts have been sporadic of late. Apologies for prioritising summer breaks even as the world grows more horrifying, to the at least partially awake, by the hour. At least partially awake. Ye who drape windows and FB profiles in … Read More »