In a footnote to yesterday’s post I wrote that: Michael Hudson has likened US-led efforts to shore up Western hegemony to the Sophoclean Tragedy, Oedipus Rex. While thinkers from Freud on have looked to its eponymous hero for insights on the … Read More »
Sometimes I miss steps in my own arguments, making them non-sequiturial. One example was in my last post but one. Speaking of Starmer’s election victory on July 4th I wrote of: … the wider context as set out in many … Read More »
Corporate media may speak truth to power on matters not crucial to the latter. (Indeed, market forces may demand it.) But all corporate media are obliged to speak power to truth on matters which are. Such as demonising Russia for … Read More »
Let me start with today’s UK headlines as sampled from, respectively, tabloid, middlebrow and elite organs. As expected, and as noted the day before yesterday: Britain [has] with little enthusiasm – and in very much lower numbers, proportionally speaking, than … Read More »
I thought the Green Party “Defence” Minister of Germany’s ruling coalition a singularly stupid warmonger till I discovered Smirnoff vodka. It turns out she’s all the while been playing a brilliant 5-D chess game, only now delivering fool’s mate in … Read More »
The rentier nature of British capital is revealed by this IPPR report: “Corporate investment has fallen below the rate of depreciation – meaning that our capital stock is falling – and investment in research and development (R&D) is lower than in our … Read More »
Why is there so yawning a gulf between the ways pundits like me, and most of our fellows, see the world? Are our eyes and ears, brains and beating hearts, differently wired? Hardly. Even our points of difference are few … Read More »
Don’t be fooled by the title, “Russia is DESTROYING Ukraine’s Army”. It’s misleading. And not because Russia isn’t doing precisely that but because this video is about something else. Don’t be fooled either by Scott Ritter’s folksy manner. In just … Read More »
Bolivia’s President Luis Arce with General Juan Jose Zúñiga on the Day of the Army, December 2022. ON TUESDAY Bolivia’s President Luis Arce fired General Zúñiga for threatening to detain former President Evo Morales should he seek another term in … Read More »
Two days ago I wrote of … …. mealymouthed and regally ignorant pomposity from a man of whom, within narrow limits and paired with caveats and disclaimers, I often write approvingly … … while further unflattering descriptions were added by … Read More »