by Laurence Peterson It’s a pity that both of them can’t lose. —Henry Kissinger Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. —J.K. Galbraith I feel as dirty and disgusted as a chance visitor to Jeffrey Epstein’s island. In less than a fortnight I will…
by Laurence Peterson I am writing this on Sunday afternoon, the 29th of September, 2024. The Guardian (UK version) informs me that the Israel Defense Force (IDF) have confirmed that dozens of Israeli aircraft are attacking what they say to be “military targets belonging to the Houthi terrorist regime” in Yemen, and may be preparing for…
by Laurence Peterson It is said that money talks, but recent signals from markets, economic indicators, and utterances from monetary policy makers all over the world now display all the comprehensibility of an overly enthusiastic believer speaking in tongues. Things had been hyper-sensitive since the Federal Reserve started raising the key interest rate (Federal Funds…
by Laurence Peterson I do not specifically remember when I lost my you-know-what about the way the word “humanitarian” is being tossed around these days. Possibly it was when a State Department spokesperson referred to what he called “humanitarian circumstances”, implying thereby that the designation could be sensibly applied to purely chance events. Or maybe…
by Laurence Peterson Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with. —Richard Rorty Truth is nothing but a bad excuse for a poor imagination. —Unknown Some things in life are very hard to give up. For me, I hope in a most singular manner, it is bullshit. I have spent nearly twenty years…