Monthly Archives: June 2016

Note:  This is an old post I never posted but, due to the recent Brexit vote, I decided to put it up.   It seems to me very probable that Tommy Mair was motivated by hatred of immigrants when he … Continue reading →

Updated below. I’m still trying to figure out how what is called The Left, in the UK and elsewhere, can hold two seemingly contradictory positions in its condemnation of the Brexit.  On the one hand, they laudably criticize the neo-liberal … Continue reading →

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/06/24/after-brexit-european-left-calls-massive-political-opposition Just to take one, admittedly small sample, the above article, like so much of the MSM and their political lackeys, wants us to believe that The Left in the UK (and supposedly in Europe) are shocked!, dumbfounded! that something … Continue reading →

And so the battle rages over the Brexit vote.  The Leavers are racists.  The Remainers are humanitarians.   Jonathan Cook, over at Dissident Voice (with a well-deserved h/t to Joseph Richardson on CounterPunch), provides a guiding light through the labyrinth … Continue reading →

// // // Yes! According to EuroNews and France Inter this morning ( 8 am French time, Friday 24 June), the Brits have voted (roughly 52% – 48%) to leave the EU. Jubilation! While the world of finance tears its … Continue reading →

// // // // // // // // Update below. Despite its manifold flaws and a pervasive sense across much of Europe’s citizen’s that the EU institution is overbearing, unduly bureaucratic, and largely unaccountable; the formation of the European Union … Continue reading →