Euro Weekly News | Craig Ireland
MONITORING global strategy I am perplexed at the speed of developments that bring us all closer to catastrophe.
SLAVERY conjures up imagery of shackled Africans dejectedly being led by white Europeans to quaysides before being shipped to plantations abroad. Most think of slavery as a past peculiarity put to rights by its abolition towards the latter part of the 18th Century. This is masterful self-deception as is much else on…
It is always sad to read of deaths by drowning. Such tragedies are common but most heart-rending are the many that die not through drowning but through lack of knowledge. Those more aware of how to respond in a difficult situation would survive. Even poor swimmers can stay afloat for days…
CHAPMAN PINCHER, the venerable British spy-buster has drawn attention to the possibility that Russia’s FSB; successor to the KGB state security apparatus are not above the assassination of opponents. He quotes the murder of dissident Russian Alexander Litvinenko.
THE Vietnam War lasted 20 years and an uncomfortable sense of déjà vu in the Mediterranean basin is unsettling. As with most wars an incident critics describe as a black flag operation ignited American involvement in Asia with catastrophic regional consequences. That incident was the Gulf of Tonkin engagement when the North…
BOGGED down in quicksand and surrounded by propaganda clichés the world’s most powerful military alliance, created 61 years ago to defend Western values, again demonstrates its wretched lack of cohesion. Nothing matches the firepower of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) but it has not emerged from a single skirmish with…
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