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 »
August 20 2024 – “Hotties for Harris” pose at the DNC in Chicago An Orwellian disconnect haunts the 2024 Democratic National Convention. In the isolation of the convention hall, shielded from the outside world behind thousands of armed police, few of … Read More »
Tweet by Radek Sikorski, Polish MEP and husband to US neocon Anne Applebaum, September 27 2022. He then deleted it First they blamed the Russians. The biggest act of economic terrorism – and eco-vandalism – in living history and they … Read More »
I’ve made pretty damn clear, and since it can’t be said too often will continue to do so, that the likelihood of nuclear war has never been higher. Never. For reasons I’ve gone into many times this would be the … Read More »
Two days ago, on August 14, Simplicius the Thinker, clearly a fellow addict of the BBC’s Line of Duty drama series, posted one of his frequent “SitReps” under the header, Zelensky Doubles Down as Front Collapses. In the main it’s … Read More »
Rescue workers remove bagged body parts after Israel’s August 10 mass murder at Al-Taba’een school I don’t as a rule do censorship but one image that came my way yesterday had me reaching for the steel city blue pencil. It showed … Read More »
“I’m not a foreign agent but a journalist. What the US government did yesterday was a frontal assault on a free press. That the Russian government and I have coinciding views on critical issues of the day might reflect that … Read More »
My third in a row on the overreach of the mediocrities managing with breath-taking ineptitude the West’s accelerating decline. Below yesterday’s post – see Europe aside, the world wants Trump – Bryan commented: Mark Sleboda worries that a Trump presidency … Read More »