This morning I read two short pieces before I’d even had coffee. The first, in the Daily Express – Londoner speaks out after stunning Just Stop Oil zealot into silence with ingenious offer – opened with this: A London commuter … Read More »
This may surprise some but on many matters I find corporate media reliable. I trust The BBC’s weather forecasts, the Guardian’s round ups of Saturday’s soccer results. And if the Mail says Netflix is doing reruns of The Thick Of … Read More »
Thanks to: Caitlin Johnstone for the seven step program … … a well known series of published titles for the concept … … Adobe Photoshop … … and in the face of a shamelessly fact-defiant propaganda blitz by EVERY SECTION … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone’s post today – Aging Iraq Invaders Keep Accidentally Saying ‘Iraq’ Instead Of ‘Ukraine’– includes this Asked on Wednesday whether the short-lived Prigozhin rebellion was a sign that Putin was weakening, Biden replied, “It’s hard to tell really. But … Read More »
In his post yesterday, blogger, tax specialist and MMT pundit Richard Murphy cites a tweet by a Dr James Davies: ‘Resilience’ is a sneaky neoliberal trope. It frames, as a psychological virtue, painful endurance of circumstances from which others benefit … Read More »
For the second time this week I’m replicating a column by tax specialist and modern monetary theorist Richard Murphy. Here (lightly edited) is what he wrote yesterday. Why interest rate rises are fuelling inflation I have been suggesting interest rate … Read More »
Few alive today in the West have experienced destitution. Yes, baby boomers raised on working class streets knew the haunted look of mothers with too much week and too little money. I recall – I’d be seven or eight – … Read More »
I’d been an hour on the island when Britain’s largest bird of prey flew over my head. Despite the gravity of my situation, I just had to share with the only person I could. Excuse me! I’ve just seen a … Read More »
A good friend emailed apropos my most recent post, two reads on media propaganda. The reads in question were by Caitlin Johnstone and Media Lens, and my friend wrote that: [Caitlin’s] explanation of how we become indoctrinated makes me feel … Read More »
Rubber tramping again – here’s the van on the east bank of Loch Eck, Cowal Peninsula, yesterday evening – so will keep this brief. In 2016, with the West’s media propaganda blitz on Assad at its height, one of several … Read More »