Some of us have been aware for a long time of creeping inroads, on freedom and such open society fundamentals as presumption of innocence, made in the name of progressive values. Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and Woody Allen stand convicted … Read More »
Yesterday in CounterPunch, under the header, Trump’s Big Pullout, Chandra Muzaffar wrote: If we … turn to the situation in Syria, we would realise that the US role in combating terrorism was limited. The Syrian Army, with the backing of … Read More »
A good friend wrote the other day, apropos my recent piece on a Texas speech therapist fired for refusing to sign an employment contract debarring her from supporting the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) Movement. My friend welcomed the piece, … Read More »
Bobby said he’d pull out, Bobby stayed in … Bruce Springsteen Western liberals despair at Trump’s avowed intent to pull troops out of Syria, a country the USA has illegally occupied since 2014 for reasons said liberals blithely and against … Read More »
This post also features in OffGuardian The map below shows the spread across the USA of laws against support for the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) Movement. It was compiled by Palestine Legal, an organisation dedicated to protecting the civil … Read More »
The OffGuardian version of my recent post, First they came for the socialists, elicited this below the line exchange: How do you respond to a comment like that? You don’t want to grace it with too considered a response. That … Read More »
No, not Katie but C J, the Hopkins who writes wickedly satiric pieces in CounterPunch. Try his t-in-c denunciation of the League of Assad loving conspiracists … of those crypto-fascists who fail to see verbal attacks on global elites and … Read More »
“Them smokestacks reaching like the arms of God, to fill a beautiful sky with soot and clay …” Bruce Springsteen, Youngstown. Scruffily coal fired, German owned Ratcliffe on Soar Power Station is not visible in all these pictures. Just in … Read More »
this post also features in offguardian It’s ten to one you read in my title the opener to a much cited quote about Nazi Germany. And two to one that even if you couldn’t identify the author, Pastor Martin Niemöller, … Read More »