“Take a charitable view,” was the advice of Sir Wilmot Lewis, the veteran correspondent of The Times in Washington in the last century, “bearing in mind that every government will do as much harm as it can and as much good as it must”. His cynical words are particularly pertinent in times of war because…
The NATO edifice of lies, nurtured for decades, is more fragile than ever, Werner Rügemer writes. After the 2nd World War in 1945 the USA knew: There is no danger from the weakened Soviet Union. But with the pincer grip of the Marshall Plan and NATO, the USA integrated the Western, Northern and Southern European…
The Ulster Defence Regiment, the largest in the British army, fueled the conflict in Northern Ireland and was a sectarian weapon in Britain’s counter-insurgency strategy, shows a new book drawing on declassified files. Say ‘UDR’ to the vast majority of Britons and, despite the increasingly totemic status of ‘our boys’ in the military, eyebrows will…
There has been much speculation about why Israel was allowed in 1967 to bomb intentionally the USS Liberty and slaughtered 34 of our soldiers on that ship and the U.S. Government has covered-it-up. And there also is much speculation about why, as reported to Congress by the Congressional Research Service on 7 August 2019, “Israel…
The biosphere’s limits only dominate humanity’s destiny when we permit the law of the jungle, rather than the law of civilization, to shape our world… as all empires demand be so. In my last article in this history series, I attempted to shed some light on President Putin’s reasons for claiming the Bolshevik Revolution did…
Even patriotic Brits know that their hero Winston Churchill did not win World War 2 or fly a Spitfire. What they, and others, may not know is how his statements often shed a clear light on British imperialism. From Britain’s reliance on colonies, to the political rationale for giving the working class some welfare services,…
