As one of the forty protesting at the arms fair in Farnborough last night (pictures to follow if any good) I offer a few coffee thoughts as I break my journey north to steel city house … * Around the … Read More »
On Thursday I’ll join protestors in Farnborough, UK, where an arms fair – let that cuddly phrase sink in a moment: an arms fair … – will open to showcase to buyers around the globe the current state of the … Read More »
… or at least, its three largest economies on the Freudian couch … Brought to me by my Gallic friend Alain, here’s light relief in truths recognised, outside the Extreme Centre, by the attentive whether of Left stripe or … Read More »
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 »