Every once in a while a discussion below the line on this site prompts an above the line post. This one came easy since it required no further work. The exchange is between Chet and me, apropos my post, Where’s … Read More »
Yet again Louis Proyect has penned an article for CounterPunch I can recommend. This despite the man being widely known for a ‘debating’ style as bizarre as it is hateful. (I give examples in the introduction to the first of … Read More »
In a September 24 piece in CounterPunch, one of my three September reads, Jonathan Cook wrote this of the nature of the temporary alliance between the Guardian and Wikileaks: On the one hand, Assange needed the manpower and expertise provided … Read More »
I’ve said and will continue to say that behind a mask of democracy informed by independent media, we are ruled by sociopaths, by the criminally insane. Craig Murray, yesterday … Where Is My Final Assange Report? Numerous people have contacted … Read More »
My recent post on home insurance auto-renewal drew a few emails. Here’s one of them: Car insurance is another scam. Mine goes up and if I don’t complain – or don’t realise – I pay over the top, despite not … Read More »
George Lewis told the Englishman, the Italian and the Jew, you just can’t hold on, boys, to every conceivable point of view. Bob Dylan Not long ago I ended an email on a separate matter to Kit Knightly, one of … Read More »
This sneaked into my inbox the other day from my home contents insurers. Can I go to the website and deselect auto renewal? Can I buggery! I have to slalom through the maze of phone flow-chartitude we’ve all come to … Read More »
A Steel City Long Read … I’ve been saying for a very long time now – sometimes I bore myself – that we are sleepwalking into WW3; its likeliest flashpoints the Middle East, South China Sea and Russia’s southern and … Read More »
Michaelmas Day is when the Archangel Michael ejected his colleague Lucifer – a shady type known to use aliases and adept at blending in with the crowd – from Heaven. It’s also my birthday. A gorgeous day as it happens. … Read More »
Replicated verbatim from today’s CaitlinJohnston.com piece. Russia Could Never Discredit The US Empire The Way These Guys Just Did Well. Wow. I mean, wow. So in case you missed it, the first US presidential debate was everything the US empire deserves and a … Read More »