Date: 20th August, 2020Author: Rob Gowland Or perhaps the heading should more correctly be “The Renewed Cold War”, for the original Cold War against the USSR never really ended. How could it? After all, it was simply a manifestation of the class war between capital and labour, between bosses and workers. And that won’t end […]
Did you see that bitter warning by Hilary Clinton to the American people to make sure that they reject Donald Trump by a very substantial margin because “otherwise you can get three million more votes than him and still lose the election”? She speaks from experience of course, but hers was not the first US
Date: 29th August, 2020Author: Rob Gowland In Orson Welles’ cinema classic Citizen Kane, newspaper magnate Kane runs for Governor. He has two headlines prepared: one optimistically trumpets, “KANE WINS”. In the event, he loses and has to use the other: “FRAUD AT POLLS” I was reminded of this by the recent goings on in the
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Julian Assange is clearly fearful of what might happen to him if British authorities yield to pressure form Washington and extradite him to the USA. And he has good reason to be fearful. He faces a very long stretch in the hideous horror of an American maximum security prison if he is convicted there. Assange,
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