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The Great Fuckin’ Growth Swindle

By Jock Mulligan Ive banged on about this before… but its worth banging on about. We’ve been swindled for going on a hundred years and it is, without doubt, the most dangerous and widespread lie ever told. It is not a secret plot or a whisper in a dark alleyway but a myth that sits […]

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Ex-UK PM accused of child rape…

By Jock Mulligan. A Prince has fallen and the name of a PM caught in a threesome with Epstein and Maxwell has been redacted. It tip of an iceberg of a scandal…  In comparison, another child rape scandal is rarely spoken about. Its only nine years since the business of Sir Edward Heath and the […]

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Prince of Darkness, King of the Shuck.

Jock Mulligan on Mandelson. The long and the winding road of Peter Mandelson’s political career has reached a bitter and a shameful end. At fughing last. For a man who twice walked away from the high table with the whiff of the backstairs deal hanging about him, these new tales from the Epstein papers have […]

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ICE: A Waco Like Powderkeg

By Jock Mulligan The air is heavy with the scent of scorched earth and the pride of a man who thinks he is a god and we are looking at a powderkeg with the fuse already spluttering and the men holding the matches are wearing the badges of the federal department. They are heading straight […]

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ICE- The Black and Tans in Minneapolis.

By Jock Mulligan The tragic news of another man shot dead in the streets of Minneapolis by the ICE raiders of the department brings a cold blast of memory to anyone who knows the hard history of a people under the boot. It is the old tale of strangers sent in to police a folk […]

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A Letter to America: Kick the Gaum Out on his Fat Arse

by Jock Mulligan Listen now for the time of talk is over and the hour of the razor is come. We are not colloguing about some dusty chronicle or a lesson from the schoolbooks anymore. We are shouting into the wind about a clear and present peril that would wither the stoutest heart. Trump is […]

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Fuck the Tech-bro-bosses: Read Tressell

Tressell’s masterpiece doesn’t need any high-tech polish; it’s a grit-under-the-fingernails account of how the working man is conned into his own poverty. If you want to understand why the “tech-bros” and the boardroom liquidators find it so easy to pull the wool over our eyes today, you have to go back to the source. The […]

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The Digital Architecture of Radicalisation

By Jock Mulligan I see the prolific Gael and others have recently been banging on this drum too. But I can’t fughing well stress hard enough how much my friends and comrades need to get to grips to understand the massive attack we are under from the device in our pockets. The device we pull […]

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Israeli Influence in Westminster vs Iranian interference in Indyref… Where’s the evidence?

By Jock Mulligan A chairdean, let us look through the mist of Westminster’s “democracy” to see the machinery of capital and empire at work. These reports from Scottish paper, The National expose a predictable reality: the British state is a playground for foreign capital and state-sponsored lobbying, while it simultaneously weaponizes “national security” to cast […]

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The Scrutiny of Free Speech: Karl Popper and the Paradox of Tolerance.

By Jock Mulligan ​Ah, sure, another big-shot book, another philosopher spinning webs finer than a North Monaghan spider in a bog-hole. Popper – A grand, severe German name, like a shovel hitting stone. And what does he tell us, this man who saw the great world go mad in the 20th century, like a pub […]