If your understanding of world events doesn’t account for the easily quantifiable fact that the US is the most tyrannical regime on earth by a massive margin, nothing else in your understanding of world events will be fact-based. Caitlin Johnstone Eight … Read More »
In a Guardian piece yesterday, on a resurgent far right, Jonathan Freedland referred deridingly to “the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones”. I seldom agree with either man but do have an opinion on the way “conspiracy theorist” has become a stock … Read More »
From the centre-left Politico, December 4, 2022 * Why do the political elites of a nation or bloc of nations pursue courses of action they know will bring great harm to their citizens? Usually for at least two of the … Read More »
Screengrab from the Mariinsky website I’m an admirer of Gilbert Doctorow. Fluent in English and Russian, his profile tells us he is: … an independent political analyst based in Brussels. He chose this third career of ‘public intellectual’ after finishing … Read More »
Journalists who know what’s good for them please editors, while editors who know what’s good for them please proprietors. Proprietors not only crave honours and seats at the high table. They also need advertisers and, in the case of the … Read More »
Market Insider, December 2, 2022 The war in Ukraine will see the most consequential changes since WW2. It will fundamentally alter power relationships in the world. Western dominance will be replaced by a multipolar world. Europe’s prosperity of the past … Read More »
In my last post but one, written just yesterday, I wrote of the USA having two war aims in Ukraine: Regime change in Moscow or, failing that, weakening Russia in a long and costly war of attrition. (While business booms … Read More »
Two days ago the Guardian and four other liberal newspapers published a joint letter which began: Publishing is not a crime: The US government should end its prosecution of Julian Assange for publishing secrets. Twelve years ago, on November 28th 2010, our five international … Read More »
What follows makes grim reading. That being so, I’m yet again rolling out my most heavily-used image: two maps which compare an actual situation with a hypothetical. This comparison, and the genocidal arrogance and hypocrisy it calls out in flashing … Read More »
Either the Russians are extremely dim-witted and gullible or the Americans are the most weak-minded, brainwashed sheeple on earth. Which is it? (Mike Whitney, below) Condemning Vladimir Putin is the safest, most redundant, least courageous thing that any Westerner can … Read More »