Libya

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Masonic handshake? Masonic handshake? This is interesting. Gaddafi makes regular spoken pronouncements, there was one yesterday, but hasn’t been seen in a very long time. So the reality is that […]

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The Arab League is an organisation whose 22 members are mainly the artificial states set up when the Ottoman empire collapsed in 1918 at the end of WW1. These states […]

American family comedy act

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Now is the time of year when MPs take their extended summer breaks and when, traditionally, the major source of news shuts down. Newspapers usually fill up their pages with […]

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Whilst rebel leaders were feted in London and Washington, Gaddafi was just holding on to power. The government goons in Tripoli in their Toyota pickups are failing to hold the […]

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 […]

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 […]

War map of the coastal strip of Libya

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The Libyan coastal strip is a strange place to conduct a war, the distances are vast and there is nothing there but desert and a few small towns that are […]

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 […]

Two dictators, one Libyan and one Russian, walk together

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Yesterday Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, in a typical piece of silly, misguided, macho posturing, said that the UN intervention in Libya was analogous to a “mediaeval call for crusades”. Just how […]

Are we going to let Gaddafi win?

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At the moment, on the ground, Gaddafi is winning in Libya and is systematically crushing the revolt, aided enormously be the actions and inactions of the West. Firstly why is […]

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David Cameron has been floating the idea of a No Fly Zone(NFZ) in Libya to protect the rebels from their own government. So what is this trying to prevent?: Government […]

Contagion

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After WW2 large numbers of countries fell to a (now discredited) political philosophy called communism. Firstly in Eastern Europe, then elsewhere in the world. In an April 7, 1954 news […]