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A Star Is Always Born
Edward Curtin It is no different now. The yearning still gnaws. The night dark, utterly silent, Sky stretched endlessly...
REVIEW: Creative Destruction – How to start an economic renaissance
Frank Lee CYCLES OF CAPITALIST ACCUMULATION A recession is defined in economics as two or more quarters of negative...
Official Secrets, Lies and the Five Eyes
David Macilwain Is Putin losing his grip? Why did Russian disinformation operations fail so dramatically in the UK election?...
The Dirty War on the NHS
Philip Roddis I saw this film last night at a one-off screening in Derby. It’s all you’d expect of...
Film review: Sorry We Missed You
Philip Roddis “I never thought it would be this hard”, says Rickie Turner to Abby his wife, holding her...
What’s Joker’s Joke?
Edward Curtin Cause how many times can you wake up in this comic book and plant flowers?” Rodriguez, “Cause”...
American Conspiracies & Cover-ups
Douglas Cirignano In today’s world, the phrase “conspiracy theory” is pejorative and has a negative connotation. To many people,...
Class Contempt: A Washington Post Reporter’s Prison Diary
Rostam Pourzal Journalist Jason Rezaian, born in California to Iranian immigrant parents, was arrested with his wife in Tehran...
REVIEW: Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
Hope Kesselring Anybody who’s expecting shocking revelations from Edward Snowden’s new book, Permanent Record, is going to be disappointed....
The Whitewashing of the Nazis
Christopher C. Black I was going to write about Iraq and the American control of that tragic nation that...
REVIEW: Blinded by the Light
Philip Roddis Bottom line: feel-good movie with a dash of musical, transcending its gritty context of racist, recessionist Britain...
The Four Horsemen Cometh
Frank Lee “Aftermath” is the latest addition to three previous publications by Rickards, Currency Wars (2011), The Death of...
Hollywood reboots Russophobia for the New Cold War
It is an age-old question as to the extent art reflects the world we live in. Bertolt Brecht allegedly...
Review: “The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela”
A divided Korea, a decimated Vietnam, endless war in Afghanistan, a barely functional Iraq, a destroyed Libya, ongoing destruction...
When Warriors Become Saints
Edward Curtin As I sit on the small balcony on the top floor of an old house in the...
Labour’s Necrotising Fasciitis
In the long history of party politics, co-ordinated and systematic attacks on one political party are always initiated and...
REVIEW: Pounding the road with America’s elderly workers
Tony Sutton Now here’s something to ponder as you munch your morning cornflakes: If the US economy is booming,...
REVIEW: Israel, a Beachhead…
Philip Roddis This book is a timely response to three groups: Those yet to grasp that Israel in its...
REVIEW: American Exceptionalism and American Innocence
David William Pear Roberto Sirvent and Danny Haiphong have explored the albatross of myths, legends, lies and damn lies...
REVIEW: Revolution in the Red States
Tony Sutton If you’re one of those sophisticated urbanites who still believe Donald Trump was elected to the US...
