“Reshuffling cat shit on a litter tray.” “A Shakespearian tragedy: written by monkeys on typewriters” ‘Leave it to a comedian to give a far more honest commentary on the situation than any of the actual media’ Bye Bye Boris : Jonathan Pie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKrLBPmRsrM Boris Johnson: any democracy should look to his case and ask if… Read More Bye Bye Boris
Blaming the failings of an entire political culture on the moral deficiencies of one leader might make us feel righteous, but most of us know that the rot goes rather deeper than one flamboyant character. The fall of Johnson could be taken as a historical juncture to be built upon and not just in the UK.… Read More Boris Johnson: any democracy should look to his case and ask if it is enabling machiavellian leaders
Sajid Javid, the health secretary, followed shortly by Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, posted their letters of resignation on Twitter, criticising the competence of the government. Neither explicitly mentioned the sexual misconduct and Partygate scandals that have dogged the government for months. Sunak in particular claimed the prompt for his resignation was his differing approach on the… Read More England's greased piglet runs out of grease
NB: This is the kind of detailed documentation that we require in India. Those interested in studying the jurisprudence of lawlessness further could read William Scheuerman’s book: The End of Law. DS Chris Hedges: Fascists in our midstSupreme Court rulings, including the overturning of Roe v. Wade, herald the ascendancy of Christian fascism in the United States…… Read More A Christian theologian warns against Christian fascism in the USA, fueled by an ideologically corrupted judiciary
January 6 wasn’t the end of the fascist revolt against democracy. We’re watching democracy be taken away not by Proud Boys waving batons, but by conservative justices who hide their grotesque anti-democratic views behind the trappings of the Supreme Court. The end of Roe v. Wade: American democracy is collapsing Judges appointed by popular vote-losing… Read More The American Judiciary is 'pro-life' and loves guns. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
In 2001, the Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah published By the Sea, the story of Saleh Omar, a man who arrives at Gatwick airport as a refugee. The border official he speaks to says his parents also came to Britain as refugees, “But my parents are European, they have a right, they’re part of the family.”… Read More From Theresa May to Priti Patel – a decade of cruelty. By Kamila Shamsie
Trump’s attempted coup continues…. The Republican party’s biggest backers – such as billionaire Peter Thiel, who has donated tens of millions of dollars to the campaigns of big lie candidates JD Vance and Blake Masters – show no sign of reducing their backing in light of the committee’s findings. Big corporations continue to write fat… Read More Capitalism + lies = mass death / America’s Second Civil War is Underway
Factoring in the value of human life and ethical considerations in economic and social policy making could bring about change. “To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment… would result in the demolition of society,” warned political economist Karl Polanyi in his book The Great… Read More Deepanshu Mohan: American gun violence is the result of an economy aimed at maximising self-interest
The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol presented evidence on Thursday that Donald Trump was told his last-gasp attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election was unlawful but forged ahead anyway. Trump then pressured his vice-president, Mike Pence, to reject a tally of state electors as part of a plot that… Read More Trump brought US ‘dangerously close to catastrophe’, January 6 panel says
Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and the Socialist Alternative (SA) party have, for nearly a decade, waged one of the most effective battles against the city’s moneyed elites. She and the SA have adopted a series of unorthodox methods to fight the ruling oligarchs and, in that confrontation, exposed the Democratic Party leadership as craven… Read More Chris Hedges: How to Defeat the Billionaire Class
