Americans like to think they live in the perfect democracy - exactly following the pattern democracies were always meant to be. That is patently not the case. I have always known that. Always known the brokenness of the American model. And yet, having no direct experience of the place, never having been or even felt... Continue Reading →
I Waited A While To Show This… Now Is The Time
I admit to having been remiss to disclose something on this blog that I have held in reserve for a couple of weeks now, waiting to see what effect there may have arisen from it in the global, actually not global, in the Western narrative on COVID - since I have always held that COVID... Continue Reading →
The COVID Story Now Coming Unravelled
After several months of personally boycotting Jim Kunstler's blog over his illogical stance on China, I can once again share at least the current Kunstler post. He appears, at long last, to have got the China story exactly right - in my opinion. Hint: that may be something to do with his podcast meeting with... Continue Reading →
COVID, as the Tip of the Iceberg in the Battle for Who Controls Humanity
I have previously heard of investigative reporter Whitney Webb, perhaps even read some of the work she did during her time at MintPress News, but I have never met her face-to-face, so to speak, until this video which came my way this morning. Two things: I have not been able to separate the video from... Continue Reading →
We Still Have A Choice …for Now
It has been on my mind for a while now. What am I doing? Where are we going? Is anything still worthwhile? Is it all too late? Is our world on a one way track, to nowhere? ...or even to somewhere we would rather not be? ...some place not of our choosing? ...somewhere we were... Continue Reading →
Knowing Your World Leaders
'GLOBALink | Xi Jinping as an avid reader of world masterpieces: Russian literature' - Xinhuanet The more I learn of China's national leader, President Xi Jinping, the more my respect and admiration for him grows. In this short, narrated video, President Xi's deep interest in world classic literature, in particular that of Russia, provides more... Continue Reading →
How Embarrassing For The US?
In an era of "The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs" - see Andrei Martyanov's book of that title, the US and its NATO allies (a motley crew) falls well short of the sort of capability necessary to maintain any relevant security through their own military forces. And that's no lie. In the Wikipedia entry for... Continue Reading →
The US, a Mixture of Insanity and Inhumanity
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Villa Hermosa City, Mexico, July 12, 2021. | Photo: EFE As another nail is driven into the US coffin (it must be near time to inter the thing now, it is beginning to reek), the President of Mexico calls for no foreign intervention in Cuba, thanks Cuban doctors for their... Continue Reading →
A Better Vision…
OK, so my previous post may have been a little off-track. Circumstances move very quickly these days and new evidence is revealed moment by moment. To keep up, a certain flexibility is required, so let's back-track a little. 'Taliban has no plans to take over Afghanistan by force, says spokesman' - TASS It is my... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 