Three dismal takeaways from the presidential debate
The f-word Fracking. Both candidates fought hard to present themselves as the hostile to the environment. Desperate for the approval of the oil lobby, the SUV drivers, Big Business, and…
Israel and Palestine: Biden’s ethical dilemma
Our hearts go out to Joe Biden and his whole team as they struggle to decide whether there’s an ethical issue to them supplying the weapons that have enabled the…
Witless in Gaza
The US and friends continue in the same witless arse-bound spiral in their support of the current Israeli genocide of the people of Palestine while finding that same genocidal behaviour…
Senseless in Gaza
The US is planning to airdrop humanitarian supplies to the people of Gaza whose destruction the US is enabling and encouraging through feeding munitions and weapons to the military of…
Under reconstruction
Psipook. Under reconstruction. This is the new look for the psite. As you read this I am loading content from the old site into this new one. And there’s a…
Brexit: British comedy at its finest
There’s a new farce in town and it’s hilarious The story so far: as a result of an internal squabble, the government of Britain calls a vote to decide whether…
The horror, the Tepco horror
Fukushima: back in March after the tsunami, it was ‘The power station is OK. There has been no meltdown.’ Then in the summer it was, ‘Well, actually there were four…
False prophet, real death
I’ve been chuckling about the antics of Family Radio’s Harold Camping and his recent prophecies of the end of the world. No longer. It seems that Camping’s delusions have been…
Libya bollocks
Violence never solves anything, that’s what I say, but I am finding it hard to object to the current international attack on Colonel Gaddhafi’s praetorian mob. Gaddhafi is what we…
First capitalisers
Even while the ground continues to shake, reactors are melting down and rescuers count the dead, men in suits seek to make political capital. Kyodo reports: LDP urges Kan to…