Caitlin calls it right on web censorship
* From my January 2021 post, The unacceptable face of crazy * When QAnon accounts were purged from social media platforms I no longer had to share social media spaces with people I despised. If I were an immature person, … Read More »
Sinophobia – but at what cost?
The Economist laments the fact that in China the state controls its capitalists. In the West the reverse is true. The uniformity of negative reporting on China across all corporate media in the West allows for only two interpretations. EITHER … Read More »
The obvious has been made unspeakable
I’ve been saying for a very long time that the costume of democracy serves as an increasingly threadbare cover for the naked truth that we in the West are ruled by criminals. This would be self evident to everyone if … Read More »
CounterPunch on US foreign policy
I don’t really get CounterPunch’s editorial position. I used to, or at least I used to think I did. And I approved of what I thought was its editorial position, to the point of opening up the old wallet when … Read More »
Ukraine and Georgia are Russia’s red lines
Back in the day, Paul Craig Roberts was a Reagan appointee to the US Treasury. Now he’s an outspoken critic of US Empire, one of the many gamekeepers turned poacher so symptomatic of our highly polarised times. Here, in a … Read More »
Assange? China? It’s not rocket science!
In her blog post six days ago, Caitlin Johnstone wrote: The most powerful regime on the planet imprisoning a journalist for journalistic activity is as brazen and obvious an act of tyranny as you could possibly come up with, and … Read More »
My date with Sister Scope
. Stats nerds and propellor-heads aside, humans are crap at probability. It’s not that we can’t do sums. Weaving the lanes of a crowded M1 at 70mph, cutting a zig-zag across a busy junction on foot or leaping for a … Read More »
A third Ukraine read
On December 9, one day before the London High Court delivered its ruling on Julian, and three after my two reads on Ukraine, Scott Ritter wrote a RT piece – Biden has successfully solved the Ukraine crisis he manufactured. I … Read More »