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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
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
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
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
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 45th president
How much of a surprise was it to find that Donald Trump had been elected president? To be honest,
Salman the beheader
The action taken by Saudi Arabia’s dictatorship, in executing 47 dissidents and opponents on January 2, has caused an
The use of force
Mark Urban, BBC correspondent, writing in his book about SAS operations in Iraq: “…in a UK context, for example,
Earthquake in Afghanistan
It was reported today that the Taleban had taken over another area of Afghanistan – Takhar province, which lies on
