The strictly bilateral ceasefire Washington has agreed with Ansar Allah – see previous post – cannot but alarm a Tel Aviv whose nuclear status has no value other than as the bargaining chip of a madman with his back to … Read More »
See also, Those Houthi Missiles Part 1 The situation as I see it: Israel commits brazen genocide on a civilian population coralled in what many sources, some of them Israeli, have called a giant concentration camp. Disregarding the clearest signals, … Read More »
If we could spend five minutes in Gaza without the constant, babbling distractions of these so-called journalists, the truth would be clear. It’s a genocide. It was always a genocide. Lies of omission are a stock in trade when corporate … Read More »
See also, Those Houthi Missiles Part 2 Mosque damaged by a suspected Indian missile attack yesterday near Muzaffarabad in Pakistani Kashmir I’m still processing this new and terrifying escalation in seventy-eight years of hostility between the two states born of … Read More »
Commenting on the May 1st byelections in England – Could the two party Labour and Tory dominated political system be over? – Richard Murphy had this to say of rising support for Nigel Farage’s far right Reform Party: [Labour and … Read More »
There’s a macabre irony playing out today at steel city house. This morning I posted on how profit driven consumerism sees the junk food industries using every trick in the book to do as their tobacco counterparts did, and engineer … Read More »
A near constant of this site is that a once progressive capitalism – the predominant system for organising social relations to produce and daily reproduce the material conditions of human existence – now threatens us and most other life forms … Read More »
Middle East Eye, March 31 2025 * Last Friday Jonathan Cook wrote with his customary lucidity on yet another Gaza war crime; the March 31 slaughter in a hail of gunfire of fifteen uniformed Palestinian medics, their ambulances clearly marked … Read More »
The Independent yesterday: Sharon Osbourne has called for the Irish rap group Kneecap to have their US work visas revoked after their politicised Coachella performance. The trio – who starred in their own self-titled Bafta-winning film in 2024 – displayed a … Read More »
* Part 1 set the context for Trump’s tariff mayhem in US elites having for decades found it more profitable to shift manufacturing to the global south, while transforming the domestic economy into one led by interest yielding FIRE – … Read More »