Notes on the News By Gwydion M. Williams Back to Tax-and-Spend? USA Still Macho on Climate Snippets A New Age of Gold? China Badmouthed Over Covid-19 North Korea – Too Dangerous to Invade? UAS Losing its Farmers India Overpopulated? Heavy Punishment for Upsetting the Rich and Powerful Everything Russian Must Be Bad? Northern Cyprus – … Continue reading Notes on the News
Geopolitics
How to Fail at Globalisation
How the USA Botched 1990s Globalisation By Gwydion M. Williams In the early 1990s, the USA was handed the world on a plate. And they knocked the plate over. Vain and greedy and aggressive, their two dominant political parties were united in doing most of the wrong things. And in Britain, Tony Blair encouraging all the errors. Almost … Continue reading How to Fail at Globalisation
NATO Serbia and Russia Ukraine
From a briefing by NATO spokesman Jamie Shea. Brussels, May 25, 1999:Question : If you say the [Yugoslav] army has a lot of generators, why are you depriving the country of 70% not only of electricity but also of water supply, because, according to you, [NATO] only strikes military installations.Answer : Unfortunately, command and control systems also depend on … Continue reading NATO Serbia and Russia Ukraine
Notes on the News
By Gwydion M. Williams Fall of the Last Thatcherite Parliamentary Democracy – Always an Illusion China – a Very Different 20th Congress Xi’s Hardening Line Snippets Lukewarm Guilt Over Russia Xinjiang: the UN Accepts Normal Police Methods Militant Pensioners? Have Fun, Kill the Poor? Finding That Damn Asteroid! Feed-the-Rich in ‘Free’ Ukraine Fall of the … Continue reading Notes on the News
Labour on Ukraine
Labour on Ukraine in Parliament Parliament Notes Shadow Minister for the Armed Forces, Luke Pollard, replying to a statement on Ukraine from Ben Wallace in Parliament 20 October 2022. This is just a sample, to show that Labour and Conservative speak with one voice on Ukraine. On that particular day, both congratulate themselves on the British ability … Continue reading Labour on Ukraine
Italy, Greece and Ukraine
Italy, Greece and Ukraine Italy and Greece, support for the Ukraine war, the least enthusiastic in Europe YouGov-Cambridge has published the results of a survey of international opinion regarding the Ukraine war. https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/0ma5boayqk/Globalism%202022%20-%20The%20info%20war%20for%20Ukraine%20-%20All%20markets.pdf Looking at the table of results (all on one page, magnifying glass required) Greece, Italy and Spain to a lesser extent give … Continue reading Italy, Greece and Ukraine
Ukraine’s Borders
Eamon Dyas An aspect of Gorbachev’s disastrous arrangement with NATO on German reunification was the implications it went on to have for the borders between Russia and its post-Soviet neighbouring countries. However the continuing existence of that border arrangement would not have been so problematic had the US honoured the unwritten agreement with Gorbachev not … Continue reading Ukraine’s Borders
Notes on the News
By Gwydion M. Williams Trickle-Down – a Swindle Who Needs the Multi-millionaires? The World Shanghaied? Russo-Ukrainians Forbidden Democracy? Sweden and Italy, Overstrained Communities Italy, Also Overstrained Two Nice People, Unfit For Their Jobs Snippets More Tory Failures Turkish Inequality Trickle-Down – a Swindle President Biden recently denounced Trickle-Down.[A] Then Liz Truss affirmed the idea: tax cutting … Continue reading Notes on the News
Freezing for Zelensky
Editorial 2 Boris Johnson told the British public on 24th August that they must make significant sacrifices of their living standards to protect the freedom of the Ukrainian people. If this means high fuel bills, freezing or going hungry then so be it. Labour Affairs and others have already exposed the lies that underpin this rhetoric and we … Continue reading Freezing for Zelensky
Making Africa feel small
Africa is really big. ° Africa area = 30,37 million km2 ° China area = 9,6 million km2 ° US area = 9,8 million km2 ° Europa area = 10,18 million km2 ● Africa is bigger than all of Europe, China and the United States of America together. ● But on most world maps, Africa is represented … Continue reading Making Africa feel small
Extra: One Sane Voice in Europe from Die Linke
From the Morning Star, 29/8/22 https://morningstaronline.co.uk/system/files/pdf-editions/M_Star_290822.pdf GERMANY’S current coalition is “the worst post-war government we’ve had” and is fanning the flames of the Ukraine war rather than seeking to end it, a Die Linke MP told the Morning Star at the Unsere Zeit Press Festival in Berlin at the weekend. Sevim Dagdelen, a Bundestag member … Continue reading Extra: One Sane Voice in Europe from Die Linke
Editorial—The Fall of Johnson and The Energy Crunch
Why the political parties don’t want to tell the truth. Foreign and domestic policy are often related. Countries seek mutual benefit through trade and take measures to protect their own trading routes. They make long term arrangements for mutual exchange of products and services. In the contemporary world, the manufacture of a particular product often … Continue reading Editorial—The Fall of Johnson and The Energy Crunch
“From BRICS to BRICS+ — and beyond”
Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier (July, 2022) By Michael Murray Dictionary definition of foot soldier: “…a dedicated low level follower." (1) BRICS 14th annual Summit meeting Imagine: an organisation representing 43% of the world’s population across four continents, comprising 30% of the global land area, currently producing 24% of global GDP and responsible for 16% … Continue reading “From BRICS to BRICS+ — and beyond”
Ukraine—The August Counter-Offensive
Eamon Dyas— a Letter I find it quite astonishing the way in which the regular Ukrainian military defeats are counter-posed against Ukraine’s “initial military successes”. It is a constant mantra among western politicians and the media. But where were these “military successes”? Beyond a few battlefield skirmishes in the east and south anywhere that Ukraine … Continue reading Ukraine—The August Counter-Offensive
Newsnotes
Notes on the News By Gwydion M. Williams Did Russia Invade To Stop Kiev Overrunning the Donbass?The G7’s Proxy WarGeorgia Not Fighting to the Last GeorgianBritish Rail and the Imaginary MarketThe End of Thatcherism?China’s Mixed Economy Did Russia Invade To Stop Kiev Overrunning the Donbass? Western media speak of ‘Russian Disinformation’. But not this particular Russian claim. Which … Continue reading Newsnotes
BBC Newsnight on Ukraine
Mark Urban, interviewed by Kirsty Wark, on Ukraine BBC Newsnight, 27 June 2022 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0018t1f/newsnight-27062022 (29 mins in) Below is a transcript of Mark Urban's remarks on Ukraine on Newsnight (27 June 2022). Urban's message is that the Ukraine is likely to have to sue for peace in the late summer or early autumn unless by then … Continue reading BBC Newsnight on Ukraine
Coming of Age at the End of History
Review of “Free: Coming of Age at the End of History,” by Lia Ypi. Diary of an ex-Corbyn foot soldier (June, 2022) By Michael Murray Dictionary definition of foot soldier: “…a dedicated low level follower." In this issue: Review of “Free: Coming of Age at the End of History,” by Lia Ypi. … Continue reading Coming of Age at the End of History
Ukraine and the World
The Ukraine War for the World by Pat Walsh https://drpatwalsh.com The current war in Ukraine has now been formally recognised as a Western proxy war against Russia by no less than the current British Foreign Secretary, Elizabeth Truss. And there are strong indications in her statement of intent last week that it is only the … Continue reading Ukraine and the World
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