This Saturday’s Guardian ran a Ukraine piece by Patrick Wintour. At over 3,000 words it had a broad enough canvas to set out vital context for a proxy war the US is losing and on that count desperate enough, with … Read More »
Has it occurred to [Economist editor] Simon Long that while [ATACMS aimed at Crimea] will up the death count, they won’t put a dent in the inevitability of Ukraine’s defeat [or] that Russia, besides taking out Ukraine’s entire power supply, … Read More »
I am very concerned that we do not have cooler heads in Washington right now. Either on the Democrat side, in the person of the feeble, demented Joe Biden or his equally feckless, inept Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, or … Read More »
Yesterday evening I wrote an eleventh hour footnote to the post, The military genius of The Economist, I’d written that morning: On the inevitability of Ukraine’s defeat, notwithstanding [The Economist’s] courageous call for Russia to be fought to the last … Read More »
This constant escalation can lead to serious consequences. If these serious consequences occur in Europe, how will the US behave, bearing in mind our parity in the field of strategic weapons? Hard to say. Do they want global conflict? Vladimir … Read More »
Yesterday morning – shortly after posting Talking WW3 Blues. (Somebody has to) – I had an email from my virtual friend and fellow Dylan admirer, writer Edward Curtin. Hi Phil, We are in big trouble now. Pax, Ed Indeed. An oligarchic … Read More »
These people are not only very skilled at constructing these kind of narratives. They live inside them. That’s Alexander Mercouris yesterday, in one of his regular duets with Alex Christoforou. And “these people”? They’d be your Beltway Neocons, since 9/11 … Read More »
Why Celebrities Aren’t Speaking Up About Gaza Caitlin Johnstone, 711 words Fame and fortune come from elevation by film studio, record label and TV oligarchs – people with a vested interest in the status quo on which their wealth is … Read More »
The vast majority of Westerners – our opinions moulded more than we realise by mainstream media incapable, upmarket no less than down, financial no less than general, of being honest on matters vital to the elites who rule behind a … Read More »
It’s hard to overstate my contempt for the spineless technocrats masquerading as the West’s political leaders. What to conclude from the strutting, the breathtaking failures of reason and ‘post-truth’ disdain for facts on display in our Macrons and Camerons, our … Read More »