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5 August 2019 Was A Defining Moment In Indo-Sino Relations

August 5, 2020 Opinion

Most observers at the time regarded India's de-facto annexation of Jammu & Kashmir on 5 August 2019 as being a defining moment for either India's internal affairs or Indian-Pakistani relations, bu…

China – Great Britain: the End of the “Golden Era”?

August 5, 2020 Opinion

The title of this article, to a certain extent answering its own question, reflects the author’s understanding of the current state of Sino-British relations which have been the focus of increased pre…

Lithuania’s Alleged Involvement in 2014 Ukraine Maidan Coup

August 5, 2020 Opinion

New scandalous information about the 2014 Maidan coup d’état in Ukraine has emerged that implicates Lithuania’s important role in instigating the violent events. David Zhvania, a former Member of the …

NATO’S Appalling Failure in Afghanistan has Fuelled a Drug Explosion Across Europe

August 5, 2020 Opinion

I recently spent 12 months in Kabul as an adviser on policing. After seventeen years of NATO’s mission to bring peace and security, it’s sad to say that the country’s probably in a worse state than ev…

The Privatization of Global Chaos

August 5, 2020 Opinion

A recent off-hand remark by one of America’s oligarchs points toward a new methodology for undermining what is left of international law and order. Speaking in earnest or in jest, nobody really knows,…

American Troops to Leave Germany: Is It Goodbye or Just Auf Wiedersehen?

August 5, 2020 Opinion

The continued presence of tens of thousands of American military personnel in Europe seventy-five years after the end of the Second World War is rarely questioned either by politicians or the mainstre…

The Fed is Determined to Prove the QTM Right

August 5, 2020 Opinion

Milton Friedman famously said, “Inflation was always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.” But Friedman didn’t live through the QE years here in the U.S. and blatantly ignored the twenty plus years o…

The Heart of the Matter in the South China Sea

August 4, 2020 Opinion

When the Ronald Reagan and Nimitz carrier strike groups recently engaged in “operations” in the South China Sea, it did not escape to many a cynic that the US Pacific Fleet was doing its best to turn …