Cold Wars & Profit

Cold Wars & Profit

The Guardian carried a very strange piece yesterday under the heading “Stamps celebrating Ukrainian resistance in pictures”. This was the first image shown: The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was, without any shadow of a doubt, responsible for the slaughter of at least 200,000 Polish civilians; they liquidated whole Polish communities in Volhynia and Galicia, including the women…

Trump and His Stooges Prefer Aggression to Cooperation With the Wider World

Trump and His Stooges Prefer Aggression to Cooperation With the Wider World

At this time of all times, when the world is staggering from the shattering effects of the Coronavirus pandemic, it would be sensible for nations to pull together in order to devise policies and practicalities to counter and defeat the devastation that is taking place and seems likely to increase. Now is the time for…

Britain Shamelessly Bowed to Its American Big Brother by Banning Huawei

Britain Shamelessly Bowed to Its American Big Brother by Banning Huawei

Instead of respecting itself as the independently minded country that it’s been for most of history, the UK voluntarily submitted to the US’ will and became its proxy in the New Cold War in exchange for nothing at all. The historical tables have certainly turned over the past two centuries to the point where Britain,…

China Has Whip Hand, Not UK

China Has Whip Hand, Not UK

Listening to British ministers bossing China around sounds like they’re reliving the 19th century Opium Wars. That’s when a globally powerful Britain humbled China for exploitation, including selling narcotics to that nation, as well as stealing the territory of Hong Kong. Today, Britain is in no position to bully China – the world’s second largest…