Category: World
Ukraine votes for a clown
The Ukrainian presidential elections resulted in a TV actor beating the incumbent (Petro Poroshenko) and a third-time candidate for president (Yulia Tymoshenko) into second and third places, respectively. The first round of…
US declares trade war at Davos
The US has gone to Davos to tell the rest of the world it is declaring a trade war. The US Commerce Secretary declared, ‘Trade wars are fought every single day. Every…
Macron election victory is a tainted chalice
The media are hailing Emmanuel Macron’s election as President of France as a victory for their own bourgeois-liberal agenda. But analysis of the results gives a very different picture. Macron is a…
It is NOT a post-truth world
What a crock of s**t to describe 2016 as the start of “post-truth” politics. The Oxford English Dictionary is reported to have said that “post-truth” is their word of the year. In…
The CIA and irony
They say Americans do not do irony. And of course, they do. But the CIA, on the other hand…. When the US foreign intelligence agency issues press releases about the (shock/horror) attempts…
The 45th president
How much of a surprise was it to find that Donald Trump had been elected president? To be honest, it was less of a surprise to me this week than I…
Salman the beheader
The action taken by Saudi Arabia’s dictatorship, in executing 47 dissidents and opponents on January 2, has caused an outcry across the world. The focus of the media reporting has been…
The use of force
Mark Urban, BBC correspondent, writing in his book about SAS operations in Iraq: “…in a UK context, for example, there are obvious political and legal reasons why the SAS could not…
Earthquake in Afghanistan
It was reported today that the Taleban had taken over another area of Afghanistan – Takhar province, which lies on the border with Tajikistan. Almost as an aside, the report mentioned that…