Extrapolating conservatively from the 186,000 estimate months ago by The Lancet, one of the world’s most highly regarded medical journals, 200,000 Palestinians have died as a result of Israel’s response to October 7, 2023. Bombed and machine gunned. Struck by … Read More »
Released by Fantagraphics, these images by Joe Sacco – author of “Palestine” and “Footnotes in Gaza,” – form part of a wider set, “The War on Gaza“. See also, stupid arguments for genocide * * *
On July 1, days before 34% of Britain’s electorate handed Keir Starmer’s Labour its ‘landslide’ victory, Channel 4 gave its 9 pm prime-time slot to a 47 minute screening of Skint: The Truth About Britain’s Broken Economy. Presented by Tim … Read More »
August 20 2024 – “Hotties for Harris” pose at the DNC in Chicago An Orwellian disconnect haunts the 2024 Democratic National Convention. In the isolation of the convention hall, shielded from the outside world behind thousands of armed police, few of … Read More »
Tweet by Radek Sikorski, Polish MEP and husband to US neocon Anne Applebaum, September 27 2022. He then deleted it First they blamed the Russians. The biggest act of economic terrorism – and eco-vandalism – in living history and they … Read More »
I’ve made pretty damn clear, and since it can’t be said too often will continue to do so, that the likelihood of nuclear war has never been higher. Never. For reasons I’ve gone into many times this would be the … Read More »
Think I’ll give those “six essential books” a swerve. Like the Guardian, The Economist can come up with good stuff on matters which don’t threaten the core concerns of the oligarchs who rule the West but, on matters which do, … Read More »
As a non-musical lover of music I’m a sucker for those who can show me, at the technical level of their construction, how the songs that move me actually work. And I’ve as big an appetite as the next guy … Read More »
Two days ago, on August 14, Simplicius the Thinker, clearly a fellow addict of the BBC’s Line of Duty drama series, posted one of his frequent “SitReps” under the header, Zelensky Doubles Down as Front Collapses. In the main it’s … Read More »
Many of us ask ourselves, “what would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow south? Or apartheid? what would i do if my country was committing genocide?” Well the answer is, you’re doing it. Right … Read More »