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Category Archives: ukraine war

Decoding Victoria Nuland’s “retirement”

12 Mar

Even while rubber tramping the northwest fens, I was mulling over this abrupt departure. It’s not the first time of course. She also left the State Department in January 2017, when Donald Trump took office with declared intent – soon … Read More »

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John Mearsheimer meets Piers Morgan

4 Mar

It’s rare for me to have a good word for Piers Morgan, a combative corporate media interviewer in his way reminiscent of Jeremy Paxman, while I often cite approvingly Professor Mearsheimer. A leading exponent of political realism, his prescient warnings … Read More »

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Gaza to Rochdale: 3 for the weekend

2 Mar

These are momentous times. Lenin’s remark – “there are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen” – never rang truer. Take the past week. We saw – some of us literally – an extraordinary act of sacrifice by … Read More »

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Is now the time to buy gold?

28 Feb