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 »
Other than all being gamekeepers turned poacher – establishment figures, including but not confined to the military, now sternly critical of their countries’ elites and media narratives – what do the following have in common: Jacques Baud, Karen Kwiotkowski, Douglas … Read More »
It’s difficult to ascertain the level of seriousness of French President Emmanuel Macron’s threat to send 2,000 of his country’s forces into Ukraine. In early March I wrote that: It’s the highest level admission yet that an underequipped, undertrained and … Read More »
Spoiler alert. In Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle, the fictitious Caribbean island of San Lorenzo is ruled by dictator “Papa” Monzano; a fierce opponent of Bokononism. Indeed, Bokononists risk death by impalement if caught engaging in the cult’s most sacred ritual … Read More »
Events are conspiring to keep me in Ukraine. Today being Easter Monday for non-Orthodox Christians – but still a month away for Russians and Ukrainians, Ethiopians, Greeks and Serbs – I’d intended to post on the 1916 Easter Rising against … Read More »
It’s been my consistent assertion since February 2022 that the West, its deeply unimpressive leaders more beholden to equally poor leaders in Washington than to their own citizens, set out to goad Russia into its military operation in Ukraine. No … Read More »
The Economist today, March 25 2024 It gets boring I know. Sometimes I bore myself but I can’t overstate the importance of taking it to heart that on matters crucial to the oligarchs who beneath a chimera of democracy rule … Read More »