I’m backing a hero!
30
Jul
Facebook today: If I get answers on when non-Antipodeans can expect to see the film, I’ll post again. Meanwhile, if you want to be a (vicarious) hero, well just follow me – here’s how … *
Say what you like about Tricky Dickie …
29
Jul
I don’t read many right-wing sources: just enough to know that the best of them can make a lot more sense than liberal equivalents. One I return to now and again is American Conservative, and this piece from yesterday (July … Read More »
“I was a US sniper in Iraq”
29
Jul
My last post but one was on whistle-blowers, after the jailing of Daniel Hale. An employee of the US Airforce, Daniel leaked documents to allow more reliable estimates of the thousands of innocents killed since Obama’s 2004 launch of the … Read More »
Another whistle-blower pays the price
28
Jul
Meet Daniel Hale, former keyboard warrior – my use of the term is non metaphoric – on the US Air Force drone warfare programme. This morning I awoke to learn that yesterday, July 27, he was jailed for forty-five months. … Read More »
The level of ‘debate’ on China
27
Jul
FaceBook this week. What Douglas Baker posted was a link to the CovertAction piece I too had linked from the final paragraph of my earlier post, NATO Expansion map Mark II. That piece poses three questions to pierce the myth … Read More »
NATO Expansion map Mark II
27
Jul
This map has featured in many posts on this site. For years it has been my stock response to the widely held view of Russia as a nation so aggressive that “we” – taxpayers in the Western Bloc – must … Read More »
The despot of Damascus
25
Jul
Warning. This post contains heavy irony. Read with caution. That Bashar al-Assad is a brutal thug, loathed and feared by the overwhelming majority of the Syrian people, is beyond dispute. Not just right-wing Western Media but many on the far … Read More »
A glimpse of Norfolk
24
Jul
Taken last week, in and around Wells-next-the-Sea.
But everyone knew her as Nancy
15
Jul
Here’s another tale from the vaults of the world’s most powerful ‘democracy’. Brought to us by Glenn Greenwald, it showcases one example of how conflicts of interest, if they ever did bother senior US politicians, have long ceased to do … Read More »