Those who wrote trade deals to profit from underemployment of U.S. workers and sweatshop labor overseas are omnipotent. The insurance and pharmaceutical industries that run healthcare for profit are omnipotent. The intelligence agencies that spy on the public are omnipotent. … Read More »
Commenting on my post of November 7, Let’s talk about Venezuela, reader Jams O’Donnell cited Military Watch on the possibility that Russia: … will introduce the US to their own Ukraine on their own doorstep. As well as recently signing … Read More »
My posts on America’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine are legion. All make the irrefutable case that a dying US empire, not “Putin’s aggression”, is the conflict’s root and ongoing cause. The most decisive rebuttal of the ‘Putin’s war’ … Read More »
Three fundamental and interwoven differences separate the outlook of sites like this from the mainstream. One is the latter’s blindness to class rule, a second its blindness to the US empire, the third its belief in news media capacity to … Read More »
On a tip off from reader Nick Hefferman, a few posts back, I’m reading Aaron Good’s American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. It does what it says on the tin – or, six chapters in, holds out every promise … Read More »
I’m on record as saying Andrew Korybko irritates the incredibly rude word beginning with the sixth letter of the alphabet out of me. On many matters I disagree profoundly and viscerally with his take. There’s no denying though that, like … Read More »
Today my inbox alerted me to 2500 cogently penned words on the holy grail of AGI, artificial general intelligence, as pursued by the West. Having posted twice on AI in January, using the example of DeepSeek to contrast the approaches … Read More »
Israeli supporters in London, October 11 2025 The government of Israeli-funded Sir Keir Starmer criminalises Britons holding pieces of paper in support of a non violent direct action group, even as it flouts international law by actively aiding a genocide. … Read More »
I concluded Roads to WW3 Part 4: ‘Only connect’ with an observation applicable to all posts in this series: none of earth’s plethora of flash points and weeping sores should be be viewed in isolation. Not Ukraine, not the cancer … Read More »
Roll over Sun Tsu, and tell von Clausewitz the news! Jeffrey Sachs yesterday, in a twenty-two minute dialogue with Danny Haiphong, excoriates Team Trump and Europe’s quislings in equal measure. Starting with this week’s flip-flop on Ukraine – “not tactics … Read More »