The Post-Partisan Emporium

HOW I LEARNED TO START WORRYING AND HATE THE BOMB and why you should, too. Trish Wood On a chilly Seattle night, sometime in the early 1980s, I was huddled in the front seat of a rented Volvo with  John Kenneth Galbraith,  one of the most important intellectuals of his time. We were parked under a bridge near Ivar’s legendary  Salmon House  — me the eager and ambitious young reporter and Galbraith, an important Harvard economist who had counselled President John F. Kennedy. Patrician, elegant Galbraith was gracious when confronted with the makeshift studio I’d coaxed him into, away from the restaurant itself which was too noisy for a clean recording. At the time of our meeting, Galbraith was travelling to events in support of anti-nukes activism being propelled by doctors around the world. Spearheading the movement was Dr. Howard Hiatt — the storied former head of Harvard’s School of Public health back when PH actually meant something.  Hiatt and Victor S. Weisskopf ,one of  the father

Waiting For The Fall John Michael Greer It’s been a busy couple of weeks, hasn’t it? A Pfizer executive admitted under oath that all those claims that the Covid vaccine would protect you from catching Covid had no data at all backing them.  Inevitably, corporate media flacks are now insisting at the top of their lungs, in the teeth of ample evidence, that nobody ever made the claims in question. Ukrainian agents used a truck bomb to damage the bridge that links Crimea to Russia; Russia, which has supposedly been running out of missiles since about a week since their forces invaded Ukraine, responded by sending a flurry of the missiles they aren’t supposed to have any more to blow up another round of Ukrainian targets, focusing on the energy and transport facilities the Ukrainians are going to need to face the massive winter offensive Russia is all too clearly preparing. The Ministry of Truth insists this never happened. In other news, Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia. The ra