I last put Owen Jones and Iran in the same sentence in a post – CIA/Mossad fingerprints are all over this! – of January 18. At the time I was less than pleased with the man, accusing him of “bothsidesism”, … Read More »
Today a Caitlin Johnstone post – The More Murderous Israel Gets, The More We Hear about “AntiSemitism” – reminded me of a promise several posts back in the context of the criminal war on Iran. In closing Why are America’s … Read More »
Elsewhere Norman Finkelstein, who lost most of his family on both sides in the Nazi Holocaust – and wrote of Zionism’s shameless exploitation of the same – diagnoses a case of Judeo dementia. Last one. There’s an old saying, literally … Read More »
Looking north to Higger Tor, and behind it Stanage Edge, but we turn left to drop down Padley Gorge I deal so much with the world’s ugliness that reconnection with life’s ineffable beauty is not an option. It’s an imperative. … Read More »
Over time I tend to accrue miscellaneous half-writes: drafts awaiting a suitable moment, works in progress eclipsed by more urgent matters, else forays I abandon as not taking me any place I want to go. Often they wind up in … Read More »
In my previous post – Why are America’s rulers allowing this? – I sketched out four possible reasons why the Trump administration is being permitted to prosecute a dangerous war which “many say is unwinnable”, and is already proving catastrophic for … Read More »
Two things long axiomatic to me have been shaken by the criminally insane war on Iran. One is that US presidents preside on sufferance of their country’s ruling elites; primarily the corporate oligarchies – big oil, finance, big pharma, insurance, … Read More »
Apologies: bad html code in this post, now fixed, made the site inaccessible for several hours today. Thanks to Alain for reporting it, apologies to all for the inconvenience. * I’m struggling to juggle the unpacking of personal effects (main … Read More »
… and why aren’t our lovely corporate media asking the same question? * * *
The cops came at dawn with an arrest warrant. They have you at the precinct where, for want of hard evidence and going on a hunch, they’re piling on the pressure over the bank job you pulled yesterday. Two doors … Read More »