Foreign policy

Arab Spring

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The main job of British newspapers is to sell newspapers. The main job of the broadcast news services is to take customers away from other broadcast news services, ratings matter […]

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So the highly oppressed Shia majority in Bahrain are forgotten about by the Western media and plans are afoot to re-schedule the F1 motor race there. And Al Jazeera has […]

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These are immensely important. Syria is one of the most repressive states on earth, the ruling dynasty do not allow basic, fundamental human rights to their population. They also have […]

Eastern Orthodox monastery in Greece

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As I have said repeatedly on here the financial “rescue” of Greece a year ago looks like some sort of joke and was inevitably going to end in tears. It […]

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And still the world sits on its collective hands. Tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of people have taken, bravely, to the streets again to protest at their lack of basic […]

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The above video gives you an idea just how brutal the regime is, using massively excessive force against their own people to retain undemocratic power. Amazingly the barbaric regime is […]

Europe rescues Portugal. Ha ha ha

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So the rich countries in the Europe are once again riding to the rescue of a country that has behaved very badly. Portugal’s problems are structural, their economy is uncompetitive […]

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden

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Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was just as much “made in America” as a Chevrolet Corvette is. He was a product of the proxy war that America ran […]

Remote controlled, UAV

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Mission creep seems to be inevitable in any military venture, the Americans sent a few military advisers to Vietnam and ended up in a long and bloody war, we went […]

The disparate elements that make up Libya

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So Colonel Gaddafi has lost, it is just a matter of time to his departure day. Militarily the ground forces against him are singularly unimpressive and fire most of their […]