Even if I didn’t enjoy the own-goals of those I despise, especially own-goals vainglorious in the making, I’d be delighted that the phrase Operation Epstein Fury, a play on Operation Epic Fury, has caught on. And just the other night … Read More »
I’m reproducing here an exchange below a post yesterday by Professor Richard Murphy: MMT advocate, tax specialist, Quaker, bird watcher and much else. His clarity on how money works – hence on how the cruelties of decades of UK neoliberal … Read More »
General Smedley Butler, War is a Racket * If our corporate media were even capable of doing their ostensible job … On many matters ‘quality’ media serve us tolerably well but this truth enables a greater lie. They need to … Read More »
I’m packing boxes in a race against time for the house move on Thursday. Why oh why did the empire choose this of all weeks to strike? I listen to podcasts as I work, read stuff when I can. In … Read More »
February 28, 2026: Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, where a US strike killed over 100 children As in June, the USA went through the motions of negotiating while preparing for a criminal war – I use that … Read More »
Here in the UK a plumber by the name of Hannah Spencer confirmed what many already knew; a century of Labour-Conservative duopoly of government is over. Standing as a Green at the Gorton-Denton byelection two days ago, she overturned a … Read More »
When I left Burton-in-Kendal services just before nine last night, showered and dined, I should have been forty-five minutes tops from my destination and frequent home from home; a small triangle of car park by Waterhead Pier on the northern … Read More »
I had definitive proof a quarter century ago that identity politics’ obsession with terminology … … in just 200 years we’ve progressed all the way from expecting our leaders to slaughter brown-skinned peoples while saying racist things, to expecting our … Read More »
Scope creep. I was supposed to end this series at Part 3 … Reporting back for duty this morning after my weekend away from geostrategic chess, I found in my inbox an offer(ing) I couldn’t refuse. From the pen of Simplicius, … Read More »
Judaists and 7th Day Adventists aside, this week’s sabbath came early with the fire & brimstone sermon I featured yesterday by the Reverend Chris Hedges. Read this Sunday post, then, as day two of my weekend break from viewing geostrategically … Read More »