Russia’s record of aggression
Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Oops – did I say Russia? My bad. I meant of course the USA. * And before Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Here’s Major-General Smedley-Butler in 1933. * * *
Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Oops – did I say Russia? My bad. I meant of course the USA. * And before Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Here’s Major-General Smedley-Butler in 1933. * * *
For socialists and internationalists (and how can you be the one without being the other?) the only thing more dismaying than the ability of ‘our’ power-serving media to whip The People into a frenzy of Orwellian loathing for manufactured bêtes … Read More »
It’s a fundamental with me that whomever ‘our’ media, debased for reasons given many times on this site – here for instance – vilify or sanctify, I take a good hard look at them. And when I do, I ask: … Read More »
This from WSWS today. Just a minor chapter in the ongoing story of imperialism in the twenty-first century. Iraq, Libya, Syria? Nothing to do with oil! Smearing a left-leaning Evo Morales as a ‘statutory rapist’? Nothing to do with Bolivia … Read More »
Think me an extremist on what is being done to Syria in our name? Hear the former Republican Senator for Virginia, Dick Black, a fortnight ago at the Schiller Institute. I’m posting in full here (transcript below) because the facts-are-sacred … Read More »
By middle of March a pair of magpies were nest building in a cherry tree at foot of our garden, two metres from a three-storey house whose east facing end wall overlooks the back of ours. That wall shelters the … Read More »
I say, I say: why did the magpie help the hedgehog across the road? No, it’s not a joke. It happened for real, was caught on a dashcam and the footage uploaded to YouTube. So why did the magpie peck … Read More »
If Winston Churchill was right, and the price of freedom is indeed eternal vigilance, then we’re eff-you-sea-kayed. I’d put Kill the Bill attendance yesterday at Nottingham’s Forest Recreation Ground at 400 tops. Still, there was energy aplenty in those who … Read More »
Just two reads this month. (You’ll see why when you clock the word count of the first one.) This past year I’ve been in an uncomfortable place vis-a-vis CV-19. On the one hand I’m impressed by sceptics like Germany’s Professor … Read More »
Steve McCurry’s spellbinding image: eyes of piercing blue, windows on a rich and complex history The services performed for empire narratives by identity politics and political correctness are not to be underestimated. In liberal circles, to defend Julian Assange against … Read More »