I’ve been writing less lately on account of a spate of study-related tasks, and haven’t had time to comment in more depth than a few tweets here and there, but I am dragged back from exile by the desire to make a few short points. I’ve been watching with interest the development of a new… [Read more…]
February 4, 2011
Israel Shamir’s recent article on CounterPunch, Redacting Corruption: The Guardian’s Political Censorship of Wikileaks, follows on from his previous piece, Paradigm in Belarus: The Minsk Election in a Wikileaks Mirror, in levelling some serious allegations against The Guardian newspaper and its journalistic practices. The earlier piece was an odd amalgam of politically questionable apologism for… [Read more…]
February 4, 2011
Who is Israel Shamir? The principal claims about Israel Shamir are drawn from an article by Professor Emeritus of Russian Literature at the University of Gothenburg, Magnus Ljunggren, in the Swedish tabloid newspaper Expressen. From: 2010-12-10: Expressen: “Daddy’s Boy” by Magnus Ljunggren [Shamir] is in fact one of the world’s most notorious anti-Semites. He has… [Read more…]
November 30, 2010
The first wave of Wikileaks’ Cablegate ground ashore Sunday night. (To search, visit rpgp.org’s full text search site.) Coverage has been generally good. I have found Der Spiegel and The Guardian‘s websites invaluable. Gregg Mitchell’s blog at The Nation has cut a lively path through some of the most interesting stories. WLcentral continues to be… [Read more…]
November 27, 2010
I’ve been reading GeorgieBC‘s wonderful post on The Military Mafia. In it, Georgie mentioned J.F.K., and it reminded me of a piece by Borges I read some years ago. That, in turn, got me thinking about the U.S. media figures openly calling for action against Julian Assange, and the countless murderous commenters who seem to… [Read more…]
November 15, 2010
Wanting once to escape from a world where curiosity was no virtue, I made a circuitous approach to philosophy and higher learning. It was only gradually clear to me what universities were for. It seems I come late to most things in life. As late as my early 20s I felt as if my choices… [Read more…]
May 15, 2011
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