Here’s something I wrote a week ago: While corporate media do actively lie when circumstances and a systemically driven deference to power require it, their preferred MO is to lie by omission. Not only is that safer. It is in the … Read More »
Amid the high drama of the game of chicken playing out between a BBC Director General and a soccer superstar I don’t see blinking – see my other post today, Gary Lineker? Or H.M. Loyal Opposition? – the restoration of … Read More »
Guardian writer and former Independent editor Archie Bland today says: Linekerology is only prominent because, even if you think his comparison of Suella Braverman’s rhetoric to that emanating from Germany in the 1930s is excessive … (Not sure I do, … Read More »
On his blog yesterday, commenting on the Gary Lineker brouhaha, Professor Richard Murphy notes correctly that: We live in a surreal world where calling out fascists is, apparently, much worse than being a fascist. To which my reply, currently awaiting moderation, … Read More »
We are not like this tigress, encountered on Xmas Eve 2011 as I traded the city heat for the leafy paths and avenues of Saigon Zoo. In the wild, once she’d mated, raised cubs and left her former domain on … Read More »
With regard to the reports in the [New York] Times and [Washington] Post, the notion that a massive, highly-sophisticated international undersea terror attack simultaneously destroying four separate pipelines would have been launched by Ukrainians operating from Germany without the knowledge of … Read More »
China’s military budget consistently sits at around 1.5 percent of its GDP, which is less than half of the USA’s. If China were preparing to conquer the world as so many hawks falsely claim, this would not be the case. … Read More »
The USA rings the planet with 800 military bases, outspends on weaponry the next ten spenders put together, has been at war for almost its entire history and has slaughtered millions – by bombs, invasions, murderous ‘sanctions’ and terror unleashed – in this century alone. Mostly in far off … Read More »
Keir Starmer’s belief that the private sector will be the salvation of UK investing is wholly misplaced. Large UK companies are the worst at investing. They look to financialisation for their profits, with innovation very much off their agendas. To … Read More »
All sides pretended that Trump was a radical deviation from the norm, and so did Trump, when all he actually did throughout his entire time in office was protect the status quo just like his predecessors did. As writer and … Read More »