To keep focus on the double standards in play, I may well have conceded too much ground in yesterday’s post on the Belarus incident. Here’s how I opened: So “international opinion” castigates Belarus after this Sunday’s forced landing – without … Read More »
So “international opinion” castigates Belarus after this Sunday’s forced landing – without doubt a despicable and alarming act – of a plane carrying a wanted man, who was then arrested. As ever it fell to Russia to point out the … Read More »
In an aside to my post last week, Washington’s Wuhan laboratory lie, I wrote: Russia’s recovery from the Yeltsin years defied Wall Street plans for her economy. It sent the West’s rulers into a frenzy … of Russophobia. No allegation … Read More »
From time to time I find cause to cite Scott Ritter, the former UN Weapons Inspector who drew the wrath of the US Empire by refusing to go along with a WMD casus belli for the invasion of Iraq, shown … Read More »
I know more Remainers than Leavers. That’s why my posts on Brexit have focused more on delusions common to the former than on those common to the latter. Here’s what I wrote four years ago: My view of Brexit is … Read More »
China leads the race for 5G leadership, a fact not only deeply alarming to Washington and Wall Street but with dire implications for a Europe left in the dust. Meanwhile a French Professor of Philosophy has a word or two … Read More »
A CUBAN medical brigade arrived in Italy at the weekend, the sixth dispatched to assist other countries with the coronavirus pandemic. Havana has also sent missions to Venezuela, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Suriname and Grenada, but Italy is its first to a … Read More »
With Italy in lock down there’s music on the balconies of Rome’s apartment blocks, but it’s not Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Five days ago the The European Court of Justice fined Italy €7.5 million for ‘illegal’ state-aid to Sardinia’s struggling … Read More »
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The Roaring Twenties began with a bang. Whatever else the decade may bring, chronologers will look back on its opening fortnight as momentous. The tone was set by the January 3 hit on General Quassem Suleimani, followed five days later … Read More »