“I didn’t set up this site to endorse the hypocrisies our corrupt media and politicians spew out” – steel city scribe “Pro-Israel sentiment is baked in, articulated constantly by our politicians and media. Anyone who condemns Hamas has no control … Read More »
As noted seven years ago in the fab four: a personal view, my childhood was milestoned and made bearable by the Beatles. Not far behind, however, was the arrival in early adolescence of a Cambridge outfit which first caught my … Read More »
No coherent alternative to the economically and morally catastrophic consequences of the ‘austerity’ embraced in all but name by Starmer and his incompetent Chancellor is possible without decisively defeating the notion that “balancing the books” – i.e. repaying a creditor … Read More »
“In just 200 years we’ve progressed all the way from expecting our leaders to slaughter brown skinned people while saying racist things, to expecting our leaders to slaughter brown skinned people while condemning racism” – Caitlin Johnstone I opened a … Read More »
Palestine flag outside the Royal Courts of Justice yesterday – Reuters The Reuters piece reads: The co-founder of a pro-Palestinian campaign group on Wednesday won her bid to bring a legal challenge against the British government’s decision to ban the … Read More »
So: Palestinian statehood is not a right in this execrable man’s view. It is a bargaining chip for a deal with Bibi. He presumes to dictate to the victims of a genocide, one his regime has so richly enabled, … Read More »
Britain’s right-wing Telegraph has its own reasons to crow over VDL/Brussels humiliation, but humiliation it assuredly was Four days ago I posted Part 3 of my ongoing series, Road to WW3. It outlined the case, not hard to make, that … Read More »
Highly intelligent analyses, coupled with an easy familiarity with English vernacular – the better to convey matters of political-economy with vivid accuracy – have propelled Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister, to celebrity status on the international Left. A touch … Read More »
Tweeted two days ago by a British GP in the National Health Service. I was alerted to it by Richard Murphy on his Funding the Future blog. But as a comment below the line points out, such sums are pocket … Read More »
Note to self: use video shorts more often. They’d help balance my own output, described by a very bright step daughter I love dearly, despite the IdPol conditioning she shares with my birth daughters, as “hard to understand”. Huckleberry Finn: … Read More »