Mist on the water
24
Feb
Attenborough Nature Reserve and River Trent this morning.
Roger Waters’ message to Venezuela
24
Feb
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Three more Venezuela reads
24
Feb
21st Century Wire This week saw both the US government and the EU set a deadline of February 23 for Venezuela’s legitimate and democratically elected president, Nicolas Maduro, to step down from power and hand the country over to the … Read More »
Spring in Britain
23
Feb
It’s worryingly early and, with temperature highs of eighteen centigrade – that’s close to sixty-five fahrenheit for oldsters like me – uncommon warm. But that’s no excuse for not getting out to enjoy the upside. Today around Attenborough and River … Read More »
A Facebook debate on Venezuela
22
Feb
Let’s cut to the chase. Most people, Western intelligentsia very much included, fail to grasp the nature of imperialism (see economics of imperialism and two minute guide to imperialism). This is understandable. We’ve been raised from infancy on the benignity … Read More »
Antisemitism: the new McCarthyism
21
Feb
With Joan Ryan the eighth MP to join the Labour breakaway group, and to cite ‘antisemitism’ as a prime reason, the ever reliable Jonathan Cook says: Corbyn, it should be noted, is the first leader of a major British party … Read More »
Antisemitism? A letter to Luciana
20
Feb
_ A Facebook friend posted a link to this open letter to Luciana Berger, one of the seven (now eight and set to rise) MPs leaving the Labour Party this week. It’s from Shaun Lawson, a Jewish supporter of Jeremy … Read More »
Labour Party: Gang of 7 Gone
18
Feb
Says Momentum today: [Chris] Leslie and Chuka [Umunna] have been undermining the leadership from the very moment Jeremy was elected. They are attacking Labour for “weaken[ing] our national security”, supporting “states hostile to our country” and being “hostile to businesses … Read More »
From a Baptist Church in New Orleans
13
Feb
Deaconess: For all who are victims of trafficking and enforced prostitution … Choir singing: Lord hear our prayer. Deaconess: For all who are victims of violence, racism and murder … Choir singing: Lord hear our prayer. * I’ve had race … Read More »
Escobar: Venezuela and the Petrodollar
6
Feb
An admirer of Pepe Escobar’s well informed writings, I was keen to read his Information Clearing House (ICH) piece yesterday. He begins. Cold War 2.0 has hit South America with a bang – pitting the US and expected minions against … Read More »