A few days and two years ago a communist with comrades in Western Ukraine berated me for defending Russia’s SMO. In doing so, he fumed – I’ll omit the more colourful of his epithets – I was “abandoning revolutionary principles … Read More »
In my previous post I spoke of the canary-in-the-coalmine phenomenon of: … gamekeepers turned poacher; their proliferation but one marker among many of the West’s moral and hegemonic decline. Sour grapes propagandists? Well our rulers and hired hacks would say … Read More »
Yesterday I wrote of Ecuador’s bananas. The same day, the Daily Mail was warning Britons of further fallout from Putin’s totally unprovoked war on plucky Ukraine. A war which, as the above photographic proof clearly shows, Zelensky is winning hands … Read More »
Tuesday, February 20. I’m in London for the Julian Assange extradition hearing, and will post later on that. Meanwhile I sit in the Ice Wharf at Camden Lock, spinning out a half of Abbott as I’m driving today, and making … Read More »
Disclaimer: I am neither a military expert nor indifferent to the appalling losses in this needless war, most of them Ukrainian. If my tone appears detached it’s because I’ve had to acquaint myself with some of the realities of war. … Read More »
I’ve seen it start to end. Here again is the link. Many on this site would have tuned in anyway, but if a single person watched as a result of its promotion here, then I’m a happy man. Do let … Read More »
As Ukraine’s desperate situation sees tensions boiling over between a deluded president and his Nazi-sympathising Commander in Chief, World Socialist Website writers Jason Melanovski and Clara Weiss were offering useful context today, February 2nd. Ukrainian president Zelensky attempts to remove … Read More »
I confess I find the tones of this man – the former US Marine Intelligence Officer who, in his reincarnation as UN Weapons Inspector, became a household name through his brave and historically vindicated refusal to endorse the warmongering lie … Read More »
French President Emmanuel Macron with former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. I’ve written little on how France is affected by Europe’s economic suicide over Ukraine to please its leaders’ masters in Washington. Rather, when not speaking of that self-inflicted head shot … Read More »
In Ukraine the fog of war is lifting, and Russian victory assured. That doesn’t mean the endgame will not be long and blood soaked. Allied victory in WW2 had been a given – Bretton Woods in July 1944 was premised … Read More »