Simplicius the Thinker opens his post today with this: Swell of ‘WWIII’ Red Herrings Aims to Drown Out Mounting Russian Success An outrageous deluge of exaggerated WWIII propaganda has hit the networks. Every pundit is tearing their hair out at … Read More »
Moscow Times, November 21st In the sole footnote to my post yesterday, Ukraine and the escalation ladder, I wrote: Today, both Caitlin Johnstone and Simplicius the Thinker – she with her characteristic forthrightness of tone, he more nuanced – point to Trump’s … Read More »
If my post yesterday, Hands up if you think Russia is bluffing – and the Scott Ritter address it housed in the opening minutes of this video – were unnerving (and we should be unnerved) here’s a slightly more reassuring … Read More »
The RF President on Thursday: “It is not Russia but the US that has destroyed the system of international security” There’s no inherent contradiction between materialist understandings of the root drivers of war, and idealist assessments of the role played … Read More »
The snow arrived on Tuesday night. But not until Thursday did a steel city lull release me to walk with steel city canine, in the cold and sparkling, up the Porter Valley. * * *
Europe’s manufacturing powerhouse, Germany, is in crisis. President Biden’s ecocidal sabotage of NordStream 1, with the abject acceptance if not full-on collaboration of Europe’s comprador leaders, robbed it of the cheap energy which kept it competitive. As Europeans pay … Read More »
Much ado about nothing? Yes it is – given that a UK visit by either the genocidal state’s leader or the defence minister he sacked is about as imminent as seeing Joe Biden on Mastermind. We may safely assume that … Read More »
Reactions to Team Biden’s U-turn: Forbes business magazine, November 19, 2024 Caitlin Johnstone, November 20, 2024 British tabloid exclusive reveals that Sir Keir – his permanently puzzled look that of a man unable to know what a genocide looks like … Read More »
Question: what have the following in common? One, the eye surgeon thrust by destiny, Michael Corleone style, into the role of Arab leader falsely vilified by the same dark forces – their true motives hidden, their power to gaslight vast … Read More »
Three video shorts, average duration twelve minutes, hand-picked by The Steel City Elders for your enlightenment and ongoing edification. They begin with the significance of Kazakhstan, western neighbour to Xinjiang, north-eastern neighbour to Afghanistan and scene of the failed US … Read More »