The Guardian yesterday, February 17 2023: A group of amateur balloon enthusiasts in Illinois might have solved the mystery of one of the unknown flying objects shot down by the US military last week, a saga that had captivated the nation. … Read More »
We socialists, Marxists especially, speak often of “the ruling class”. And much of what we say, not least that it is defined by monopoly ownership of the means of wealth production, has great explanatory power. The trouble is that, for … Read More »
I have my differences with those who, while sharing my view that blame for the Ukraine War lies with Washington, say the Kremlin is also culpable. For reasons given many times before and after February 24, 2022 – here for … Read More »
“… just a giant US military base with kangaroos …” As a compatriot of Caitlin Johnstone rots in a British jail for telling us the truth about the war crimes and mass surveillance of its supposed allies by the US … Read More »
Apropos UK data released today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), modern monetary theorist and tax specialist Richard Murphy comments that: The deliberate choice by the government to prevent market-matching pay settlements in the public sector is only rational … Read More »
The West having de-industrialised, its ruling classes are dependent on super profits from the exploitation of cheap labour in the global south and from their highly financialised domestic economies. Both are threatened by a renascent China and Russia; respectively, Wall … Read More »
In the bleak mid-winter, frosty wind made moan/Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone – Christina Rossetti Friday, 07:30. Snug in down bag under heavy duvet, I peel back a corner of the nearest blind to take in the … Read More »
Anyone following these scribblings, including the previous four “Ukraine takes”, knows my views on: what trigged the Ukraine War Decades of NATO provocation, from the betrayals of pledges to Gorbachev, through the stepping up of hostilities when the drunken pliancy … Read More »
This important post from the onthebrynk site of Bryan Gocke, a pal since college days in the late seventies, sheds valuable light on that question. Is the US running out of Luncheon Vouchers ? I recently came across a Talking … Read More »
Hartlepool, north of the Tees, is my kind of town. Time ravaged and forlorn, the striking and the truly banal rub shoulders as both stagger under the weight of histories ancient and modern. It’s a place of friendly folk whose … Read More »