By Gwydion M. Williams France’s Overlooked Left Vote Ukraine: Making Local Democracy Illegal Russia: A Fate Worse Than Putin? NATO: Elites Who Reluctantly Tolerate a Democratic Electorate Britons Vote Themselves Into Poverty Bears and Libertarians – Both Unbearable Covid Failures France’s Overlooked Left Vote Macron picked up another nine million votes: a bare majority of … Continue reading Notes on the News
Letter on Ukraine to Labour Affairs From Eamon Dyas I don’t think Zelenskiy believes that he is going to be defeated. Of course, given his predicament such defiance of reality is irrational and can only be sustained by a confidence that at some point he can convince US/NATO to get involved. US/NATO could never have … Continue reading Letter about Ukraine
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI ON the place of Ukraine in A UNIPOLAR WORLD Extracts from The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives Zbigniew Brzezinski, New York, Basic Books, 1997 After the fall of the Soviet Union, Americans started thinking about a unipolar world, a world organized around one pole, themselves. Zbigniew Brzezinski, diplomat and adviser to presidents … Continue reading A Unipolar World and Ukraine
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
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
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
Putin’s Dilemma — Editorial 1 America was determined to stop Nord Stream 2. But for different reasons than most people think. People assume that it wished to stop it because it meant America could find a lucrative market for its Liquified Natural Gas (LNG). That was undoubtedly a positive result from America’s perspective. But that was not the main … Continue reading Putin’s Dilemma — Editorial
Notes on the News By Gwydion M. Williams Notes on the News Diplomacy – a Polite Name for Intimidation The Bane of Ukraine China Still Rising x Tolkien, Race, and an Amazon Blessing Snippets Silly Truckers Monbiot – Terrified of Hopes of Rescue Warmer Seas Mean Worse Weather And After Covid-19? Diplomacy – a Polite … Continue reading Notes on the News
Ukraine: Where to find the Truth in enormous detail By Craig Murray https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2022/02/ukraine-where-to-find-the-truth-in-enormous-detail/ In the massive propaganda blitz over Ukraine, there is one place where you can find, in enormous detail, the truth about what is happening in the civil war conflict zone on a daily basis. That is in the daily reports of the Organisation for … Continue reading Ukraine and the OSCE
News conference following Russian-German talks 15 February 2022 Following Russian-German talks, Vladimir Putin and Federal Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz made statements for the press and answered journalists’ questions. The US and the UK must be very unhappy about the Putin/Scholz meeting, which was all about enhancing the well-developed economic relationship between Russia and Germany, including Russia's supply of energy … Continue reading Putin/Scholz meeting
Nordstream 2, Germany and the US Jack Coldrick I’m increasingly getting the feeling that the current security crisis in Ukraine is being fuelled by this issue. Ultimately, the final decision was in Germany’s hands and the agreement between Merkel and Biden was an acknowledgment of that fact. But the dynamics seem to have changed after the … Continue reading Nordstream 2
Toward a socialist foreign policy: Introduction to helpful sources of geopolitical analysis (No.1, February, 2022) - Michael Murray December last the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly (130 majority) for a motion condemning the glorification of Nazism, neo-nazism and all forms of racism - past and present. So what? You might ask. Ought not we expect that from … Continue reading A Socialist Foreign Policy
Notes on the News By Gwydion M. Williams Disgusted With Capitalism, Terrified of Socialism Burning Bridges With China Ukraine – Arming the Useful Idiots “Let The World Suffer, Unless India and China Stay Low” Pay Less, Care Less Snippets A False Meritocracy Life, Liberty and the Avoidance of Happiness Communist Subversion in the 1950s Chinese … Continue reading Notes on the News
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