In my last post but one, Donald Trump is the empire unmasked, I quoted Caitlin Johnstone as per the above image caption. In the post which followed it, What is to be done?, I offered Chris Hedges’ slightly more detailed … Read More »
Today Mark Taliano posted this. I concur without reservation and invite those with a different view to argue it in the comments section or, by arrangement, in a guest post. What am I thinking? What am I thinking. I am … Read More »
This week: Seoul riot police confront South Koreans demanding President Yoon Suk-yeol’s impeachment Some features of the ousting of Syria’s government by US backed terrorists are already clear, notably the gains to Washington, Tel Aviv and Ankara. Others, notably the … Read More »
It’s easy to lose touch – amid the cerebral thrill of the chase attendant on applying our powers of reason to uncover the drivers and drift of this sorry planet as a dying hence triply dangerous US empire thrashes out … Read More »
Jihadists about to enter Aleppo, November 29 The above shows Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham – a rebranding of al-Qaeda cut-out, Jabhat al-Nusra – on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria’s second city, five days ago. That’s almost twelve years to the day … Read More »
In US Neocons & Israel’s far Right: Part 2, I wrote: As in Afghanistan, 9/11 legitimated – as did the WMD lie and risible notion of Saddam in bed with Al Qaeda – what Nuremburg called “the supreme crime” of … Read More »
These are disturbing times for the even partially awake. To monitor and as best we can draw attention to the criminality of those who, beneath a thinning veneer of ‘democracy’, rule the Western world may lead us into the realms … Read More »
Simplicius the Thinker opens his post today with this: Swell of ‘WWIII’ Red Herrings Aims to Drown Out Mounting Russian Success An outrageous deluge of exaggerated WWIII propaganda has hit the networks. Every pundit is tearing their hair out at … Read More »
Moscow Times, November 21st In the sole footnote to my post yesterday, Ukraine and the escalation ladder, I wrote: Today, both Caitlin Johnstone and Simplicius the Thinker – she with her characteristic forthrightness of tone, he more nuanced – point to Trump’s … Read More »
If my post yesterday, Hands up if you think Russia is bluffing – and the Scott Ritter address it housed in the opening minutes of this video – were unnerving (and we should be unnerved) here’s a slightly more reassuring … Read More »