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 →
Don’t Quote Me, Yet…
Don't quote me, yet. I'm reading between the lines here. But I can see a day, perhaps not too far away, after the Taliban movement (outlawed in Russia - as TASS never fails to remind whenever that name is mentioned) has taken complete control of Afghanistan, all remaining foreign Western troops have slunk away back... Continue Reading →
Like ‘Thieves in the Night’
"The Taliban seem to be riding an irresistible momentum – especially when Afghans themselves were stunned to see how the imperial “protector”, after nearly two decades of de facto occupation, left Bagram air base in the middle of the night , scurrying away like rats." Pepe Escobar - 'A Saigon moment in the Hindu Kush' -... Continue Reading →
A Gallery of Reminiscences
I was looking through old images today and thought it would serve as something a bit different to show some of them here. First is the only time I have encountered a Victorian Funnelweb spider. This was around 10 years ago when I lived down a long dirt track at the bottom of a deep... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 