[…] in these columns because I have nothing to offer which others don’t have. It has always seemed obvious to me that the US state would destroy – kill, imprison – Assange, one way or another. Pour encourager les autres.50 Recently the appearance of an excellent big piece by Andrew Cockburn, ‘How the media failed […]
[PDF file]: […] but hopefully expanding, power. The Establishment enjoys the luxury of the ultimate sanctions: the ability to impose its will through brute force. Whereas the Establishment can just kill its opponents or deprive them of the means to work and earn a living, the counter-Establishment can only deprive dissidents of attention, of access to the […]
[…] Union had no aggressive military intent and had developed its nuclear arsenal in response to NATO’s. The Russia of today is an aggressive, violent, kleptocracy, willing to kill tens of thousands of people – including its own citizens – in pursuit of geopolitical ends and the personal wealth of its leaders. Russiagate ‘Russiagate’ centres […]
[PDF file]: […] peace overtures and that this will be listened to by the British government’. What emerged was a plot, presumably instigated some weeks earlier, to kidnap, interrogate and kill Hess. Liddell later records that in July 1941, seventeen Polish and two British officers, from a special forces base at Inverlochy Castle, Fort William, tried to […]
