Editorial 1 Early on in his dismal Financial Statement Rishi Sunak said: “At a time when the OBR has said that our fiscal headroom could be “wiped out by relatively small changes to the economic outlook,” it is right that the central fiscal judgement I am making today is to meet our fiscal rules with a … Continue reading Rishi Sunak’s Financial Statement
Month: April 2022
Making Sense of the Ukraine Conflict
Editorial 2 What is happening in Ukraine? The British government and its media outlets would have us believe that the hostilities that began on the 24th February were an unprovoked aggression launched by Russia for the purposes of territorial expansion. No evidence is offered for this claim. The reality is different. The Ukrainian army concentrated on … Continue reading Making Sense of the Ukraine Conflict
Inflation 2022
A Transitory Inflation? Martin Seale The price of many of the goods that the typical consumer buys is higher than it was a year ago. Is this inflation? The last time we had inflation in the UK was in the 70s and 80s. But is what happened then similar to what is happening now? In the early … Continue reading Inflation 2022
NATO, Ukraine and the Labour Party
Diary of an ex-Corbyn foot soldier (April, 2022) Dictionary definition of “foot soldier”: “…a dedicated low level follower…” Michael Murray: murraymicha@gmail.com; FaceBook: Michael Murray London (1) Introduction “Time to get your mind right on NATO, boy!” (2) Stop The War fights back (3) Jack F Matlock: “I was there: NATO and the origins of the Ukraine crisis” (4) George … Continue reading NATO, Ukraine and the Labour Party
Bevin and NATO
Ernest Bevin Founder of NATO By Brendan Clifford At Prime Minister’s Questions 9th March 2022 John Healey, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, said: “It was Labour’s post-war Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, who was the principal architect of NATO and in particular of its article 5 commitment to collective defence. Today is the anniversary of Bevin’s … Continue reading Bevin and NATO
Russia’s Objectives in Ukraine—Reality and Media Myth
A Letter to the Editor 30 march 2022 from Eamon Dyas Pentagon Press Secretary: “Up until recently, we had still assessed that their [Russia] plan was to occupy and annex Ukraine” - 29 March 2022. That’s been the baseline of the US/NATO narrative from the start. It was necessary to construct it in order to … Continue reading Russia’s Objectives in Ukraine—Reality and Media Myth
WHEN JOURNALESE BECAME WORLD NEWS
Let me ask you a question: The ground is still squishy where a million lie in Iraq, the soft bones gone of a quarter million babes under five through sanctions, dried flesh still on the Guantanamo torture racks. Blood and tears in equal measure still torments Afghanistan. Gaddafi’s adopted toddler daughter dead in a British … Continue reading WHEN JOURNALESE BECAME WORLD NEWS
The Persecution of Julian Assange (Part Two)
A review of Nils Melzer: The Trial of Julian Assange, Verso Books, 2022 Part two by Peter Brooke ASSANGE LEAVES THE EMBASSY Assange entered the Ecuadorian embassy fit and healthy, a man at the top of his immensely difficult, immensely courageous game. Prior to 2012, following the list of his honours given in his Wikipedia entry, he … Continue reading The Persecution of Julian Assange (Part Two)
The P & O Scandal
It’s the hobbling of trade union power that’s permitted P&O’s actions After 42 years of anti-union legislation, we urgently need a restoration of the freedom of unions to defend their members, argues LORD JOHN HENDY QC THE piece in the Star on Saturday by my colleague Professor Keith Ewing outlined some of the shortcomings of the … Continue reading The P & O Scandal
Newsnotes
Notes on the News By Gwydion M. Williams NATO as ‘They Who Must Be Obeyed’?MICE – a Team of RivalsDown and Out in the G7P&O: Britania Losing the WavesSlavery: a World HeritageIran and SubversionSnippetsHollywood as Foe?Alternative East AsiaThe World Burns? NATO as ‘They Who Must Be Obeyed’? We have just seen a naked display of … Continue reading Newsnotes
Pisa Airport Workers
Italian Airport Workers Stop Arms Shipment to Ukraine Under Guise of “Humanitarian Aid” Carry Out Protest We strongly denounce this genuine forgery, which cynically uses “humanitarian” cover to continue fueling the war in Ukraine Italian workers discovered that weapons were being shipped to Ukraine under the pretence of sending “humanitarian aid” and have refused to … Continue reading Pisa Airport Workers
Moscopoli — Moscowgate
Listening to Italy by Orecchiette MOSCOPOLI (or Moscow-gate) Marco Travaglio, Editor of Il Fatto Quotidiano, a newspaper to the left of la Repubblica, commenced his editorial on Putin by taking a slogan from a pacifist demo that happened in March. “Né con Putin, Né con Nato” Not with Putin nor with NATO. “I have always condemned Vladimir Putin's regime, ever since Silvio Berlusconi … Continue reading Moscopoli — Moscowgate
OSCE and the Indivisibility of Security
OSCE and the Indivisibility of Security By David Morrison The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has 57 participating states in Europe, Asia and North America. At a conference in Istanbul in November 1999, the OSCE adopted a Charter for European Security, Paragraph 8 of which prescribed the basic principles on which security for participating states was to … Continue reading OSCE and the Indivisibility of Security
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