The venality, corruption and cruelties of power, when these become our daily focus, can harden the heart. The risk of cynicism is ever present, especially for we who come bearing no solutions other than the non negotiable precursor that we … Read More »
I refer often to corporate media as systemically corrupt. This from Britain decides! in May 2021: Media barons like Murdoch, Rothermere and Barclay Brothers are the visible tip of an iceberg. More insidious – less obvious hence more toxic – … Read More »
When I ponder on liberalism at its best (not that I spend a heap of time doing any such thing) I can think of no finer example than Jeffrey Sachs. Like his friend John Mearsheimer – featured in my last … Read More »
Remember that Castlemaine XXXX ad from the eighties? The one where blame for a collapsed pick-up in the Ozzie outback is attributed not to crate after crate of lager bearing down on its creaking suspension, but to two bottles of … Read More »
When Caitlin Johnstone invited us – see my post of two days ago, On the nature and origins of Islamism – to “think about the hatred and savagery you’d need to summon up within yourself to gouge the eyes out of … Read More »
As America’s aristocracy rushes to heap nauseating eulogy on the late Dick Cheney, here’s how I’ll remember the man. Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words … This last twenty-four hours I’ve watched three interviews by Judge Napolitano. Though … Read More »
Seen today in BTL commentary on a Naked Capitalism piece: Gestopholies, November 3, 2025 at 7:36 pm LOL. Stalin certainly did revive industrial policy in Russia, but he did it in a very flawed way. In order for no one … Read More »
Two items in my inbox caught my eye this morning. One, by Caitlin Johnstone, refers to a piece two days ago in Israel’s liberal Haaretz, under the self explanatory title, Israeli Settlers Filmed Torturing Lambs in a Palestinian-owned Pen in … Read More »
On a tip off from reader Nick Hefferman, a few posts back, I’m reading Aaron Good’s American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. It does what it says on the tin – or, six chapters in, holds out every promise … Read More »
Levers Water is in the English Lake District, at the head of the Coppermines Valley above Coniston village. Originally a natural tarn, it was enlarged by a dam in 1717 to provide water and power to the nearby mines. Today, … Read More »