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Comment: Open mike 12/09/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:58 am, September 12th, 2021
Costs of War Project As of April 2021, more than 71,000 Afghan and Pakistani civilians are estimated to have died as a direct result of the war. The United States military in 2017 relaxed its rules of engagement for airstrikes in Afghanistan, which ...Comment: Dirty Politics does not work any more
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:39 am, September 12th, 2021
Not really Dirty Politics, more a case of stupid politics, turns out that J.Collins isn't quite as smart as we or she thought she was...infact not that smart at all.Comment: Open mike 12/09/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:33 am, September 12th, 2021
Thanks for posting that Gezza, and strangely enough it is the notorious Daily Mail who have given this story the most coverage out of all MSM as far as I can make out...well not strange really, they are are also are the best MSM outlet when it comes to ...Comment: Is this the post Covid world?
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:31 am, September 11th, 2021
Re; Andre, "I view your persistent labelling of people who choose to not get vaccinated as 'anti-social arseholes' as exceedingly dangerous." +1, Andre's hysterical anti-anti vac rhetoric is a prime example of how to fully entrench and harden an already ...Comment: Open mike 11/09/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:29 am, September 11th, 2021
As we all know or at least are lead to believe if you listen or watch any western media, white western lives and most especially white American lives have a lot more value than any other lives around the world....so as we are force feed a serious amount of ...Comment: Open mike 10/09/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:30 am, September 10th, 2021
Tuns out the BBC is just as dodgy as we suspected....imagine that, the same news source that gets on board for every western war and intervention, dishonestly skewing their Syria story in the service of more intervention...I wonder when was the last time ...Comment: Open mike 08/09/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:44 am, September 8th, 2021
No need to be so sharp there pal...will keep an eye on that German election and look at that Prosperity Without Growth report, thanks. Guess I was thinking more about Degrowth in relation to NZ politics and the NZ Green party in particular...no point in ...Comment: Open mike 08/09/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:13 am, September 8th, 2021
For anyone interested in how the Left can offer a vision with solutions to the climate catastrophe, here is an extremely interesting interview from what is without doubt the best source of contemporary Left though available, KPFA's Against the Grain. I was ...Comment: Open mike 07/09/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:08 am, September 7th, 2021
Six Palestinian prisoners escape Israeli jail through tunnel Israeli authorities have launched a manhunt after six Palestinian prisoners escaped from one of the country's most secure jails overnight. The men are believed to have dug a hole in the floor of ...Comment: Open mike 03/09/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:40 pm, September 3rd, 2021
Yes I totally agree, his biggest single mistake was not purging out the third way centrists as soon as he could, but that is because his very nature is to be inclusive. his second was not shutting down that anti-semitic bullshit hard. I guess if he is ...Comment: Open mike 03/09/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 5:43 pm, September 3rd, 2021
@Bearded Git +1 "Bring back Corbyn I say." I agree, he is without doubt the most honest, principled major politician in the UK by a country mile (probably in western political anywhere)..of course the usual suspects will poo poo any suggestion of having ...Comment: Open mike 01/09/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 5:29 pm, September 3rd, 2021
What Corbyn exposed quite clearly in the UK (and to some extent, here) is that half the people we hear who identify as 'Left' of 'Progressive' etc, shit their pants when a actual live Left wing politician comes along and looks like they might actually get ...Comment: Open mike 01/09/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:35 am, September 3rd, 2021
" Hell even Milliband got closer to power than Corbyn."...no he didn't, and he only got as far as he did because he was no threat to the status quo and power.. Critics must accept Jeremy Corbyn has created largest political party in Europe - and work with ...Comment: Open mike 03/09/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:15 am, September 3rd, 2021
Someone brought up the subject of Corbyn a day or two ago, with the usual results, here is a new piece from Consortium News out detailing some of the coordinated MSM attacks on Corbyn and Labour, mainly in regards to The Jewish Cornicle… The Newspaper That ...Comment: Open mike 01/09/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:10 pm, September 1st, 2021
@RedLogix "hope that by engagement they (The USA) could hope to influence these nations away from totalitarianism and toward more open, liberal societies." So even though no actual facts support in any way your white man triumphalist fantasy story, in-fact ...Comment: Open mike 01/09/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:36 pm, September 1st, 2021
One of the most important things Corbyn did while leader of the UK Labour, was to unwittingly expose without question which individuals and institutions who were/are actually Left Progressives and those who are (left leaning?) Liberal Centrists...two quite ...Comment: Open mike 01/09/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:01 am, September 1st, 2021
"If the US decides that it really doesn't care about the expansion of totalitarian regimes outside of the Western Hemisphere " Really, that is a bit childish.... List of authoritarian regimes supported by the United States https://en.everybodywiki.com/List ...Comment: Open mike 01/09/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:50 am, September 1st, 2021
@RedLogix No, what is childish is your unwavering, dear I say it, fundementalist adherence to defending a pernicious regime that has inflicted pain and misery around the world to millions of humans...but because it isn’t in your backyard you tell us it is ...Comment: Open mike 01/09/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:33 am, September 1st, 2021
Thanks Ad.. you have to admire Hedges, immovable on his principles and fearless in his critiques of the powerful...which is why he is no longer New York Times Middle East Bureau Chief I guess.Comment: Open mike 01/09/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:27 am, September 1st, 2021
The Saudi royal family survives only because of their fealty to the USA and western interests, so why would he bother?Comment: Open mike 01/09/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:21 am, September 1st, 2021
@RedLogix "my argument has never been that the US were any good at being 'world policeman', but even their incompetent efforts at the task have on the whole delivered far more benefit than cost"..... I wonder how many times throughout the last 250 years a ...Comment: The Top 20 Biggest U.S. Military Interventions, Best to Worst
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:10 pm, August 31st, 2021
Wrong.Comment: The Top 20 Biggest U.S. Military Interventions, Best to Worst
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:07 pm, August 31st, 2021
At some point we have to somehow get the human project back on track...most importantly that really import part were we are meant to be slowly evolving... hopefully to something a bit more enlightened. Maybe the worldwide nature of the Climate Change ...Comment: The Top 20 Biggest U.S. Military Interventions, Best to Worst
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:57 pm, August 31st, 2021
@Stuart Munro "and yet their intervention is still considered by the survivors to have been worthwhile." Really?...I would like to see a few links from the survivors of the USAF carpet bombing and napalming 1950-52 tell us how worth it it was......links ...Comment: The Top 20 Biggest U.S. Military Interventions, Best to Worst
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:41 pm, August 31st, 2021
@RedLogix “To be really fair we need to compare the US with all the other military interventions of the past 10,000 yrs or so. And on that broad measure the average person living in the 70 yrs since the end of WW2 is far less likely to die in war than at ...Comment: The Top 20 Biggest U.S. Military Interventions, Best to Worst
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 2:19 pm, August 31st, 2021
That is true in many cases, but I would suggest that there can be selective bias on many important entries that if not noted, and a reader just followed the links provided, would end up with quite a distorted understanding of the subject. Persistent Bias ...Comment: The Top 20 Biggest U.S. Military Interventions, Best to Worst
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:14 pm, August 31st, 2021
Aahh Gosman, the man who never fails to spew out western pro war propaganda...at least your are consistent I guess. A recent article by historian Gar Alperovitz, after noting that Eisenhower had strong misgivings about the use of the bomb on Japan1, states ...Comment: The Top 20 Biggest U.S. Military Interventions, Best to Worst
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:46 pm, August 31st, 2021
Here are the observations of one of the most highly decorated US soldiers who took part in the US interventions in Cuba and the Philippines…. “War is a racket. It always has been,” Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler “I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe ...Comment: The Top 20 Biggest U.S. Military Interventions, Best to Worst
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:13 pm, August 31st, 2021
Just when I thought, after reading Red Logic’s surreal attempt at justifying and defending the wholesale destruction of the planet for the sake of 150 progress in his post last week, that The Standard had reached the bottom of the barrel in Neo Liberal ...Comment: Open mike 30/08/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:37 pm, August 30th, 2021
Thanks for that post Morrissey, you are the best and most reliable interpreter around these parts of RNZ's sad decent into it's current role as New Zealand very own guard dog for the neo liberal status quo...much like The Guardian, keep up the good work.
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