Saturday The below is an extract from an interview done this week by John Pilger with Julian Assange. With a deep sense of foreboding for what it will bring and for the continuance of the corrupt US establishment, I do suspect that he is right. Wishful thinking is not a strategy... ________ He (Assange) said: "Trump would not be permitted to win. Because he has had every … [Read more...]
The Smell of Rot
Saturday The smell of rot is in the air. European bank problems have become so bad that the media are actually covering it. There is usually a law of inverse proportion between the direness of the situation and the triviality of the media news. Maybe that is justified by the reality that the closer that the world approaches Armageddon, the more weirdly trivial the … [Read more...]
Americans, Slavs and Hubris
Tuesday Vladimir Putin, the leader of Russia, is a Slav. The US does not understand Slavs. If they did, they would not have been so belligerent since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Hubris is always self-defeating. The US indulged in tub-thumping the idea that it was the world’s undisputed superpower, when it was already obvious. Their subsequent litany of much … [Read more...]