Pat Walsh Did you know that President Trump is cancelling the New World Order the US proclaimed in the 1990s – starting with the last and most disastrous of its projects, the advance into the Ukraine? President Trump and his revolutionary band (Marco Rubio, Mike Waltz, Steve Witkoff, General Kellogg and Pete Hegseth) have hit … Continue reading Trump cancels the New World Order
Ukraine and the supply of Russian gas to Europe - the European Commission and national sovereignty over energy By Eamon Dyas In the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union the West became intoxicated by the prospect of Russia’s opening up its natural resources to Western business interests. This was represented at the time as a victory for the policies of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and it was only fitting thatthe version of capitalism that took the lead in converting Russia to free market economics was the onerepresented by both these … Continue reading Ukraine and the Supply of Russian Gas to Europe
By Gwydion M. Williams East Ukraine: Invisible People Putin’s Modest Appetite Vance Orders Europe: Do It My Way Billionaires: Wealth Accumulators, not Wealth Creators Snippets Germany: a Nation Once Again? Germany’s Left Links and Alternatives Canada An Unwanted Example? Russia’s Narrow Escape Poland Stops Pretending to Like Ukrainians You Want the Law, But the Law … Continue reading Notes on the News
BSW Newsletter, 27 February 2025 After the German General Election. [LA notes: BSW gained 4.97% of the popular vote. They need 5% to qualify to enter the Bundestag. Note how unique they are: the only socialist, non-authoritarian, non-imperialist party in German politics.] This is the newsletter of Sahra Wagenknecht, Member of the German Bundestag. In … Continue reading Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance
Reflections on questions concerning global warming Part Six: 5% of scientists can't be wrong or Science Whoring By Richard Jones I intended to write about attribution. I will, but mostly just to introduce the concept and the bare bones of the problem, as nothing I could write would compare with simply referring readers to the recent … Continue reading 5% of scientists can’t be wrong or Science Whoring
Gwydion M. Williams “It’s not that she’s black, but she’s black” Labour’s Submissive Tendency Unsuccessful Strife, and Afterwards Slovakia Dares to Disobey the Anglosphere Will Trump Dump Kiev? Snippets How Russia Was Lost Trump Endorses Greater Israel Trump Wants the World: Does the World Say No? Afghan Failure Australian decline Lynching the Audience “It’s not … Continue reading Notes on the News
BSW on Democracy and the banning of political parties: The efforts to ban the AfD (Alternativ für Deutschland) are a political folly in which BSW is not participating. The fact that support for the AfD has doubled in the past three years is not due to the particularly brilliant policies of Weidel and Co. but … Continue reading Sahra Wagenknecht Newsletters December 2024/January 2025
Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) (The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance – Reason and Justice) Party Building: Letter to Supporters, December 2025 Dear supporter(s), The frequent and active help of our supporters was of decisive importance for BSW. Without you, we would never have been able to achieve our successes this year. We would like to thank you … Continue reading Sahra Wagenknecht on the challenges of building a new leftwing party
The British government, with the support of the opposition, is currently engaged in acts of war against the Russian Federation. It has approved the use of British made and supplied missiles to the Ukrainian state in order to attack targets within pre 2014 Russia. The Russian government has made it clear that such actions constitute … Continue reading Britain on the Brink of War with Russia—Editorial
Keir Starmer’s decision to assist Ukraine in shooting UK supplied weapons into Russia is puzzling for many reasons. Firstly, it is not going to affect the outcome of the war in Ukraine. Secondly, it is not going to change the conditions which Russia would require in any peace deal. Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, it … Continue reading Starmer’s Pointless Missiles—Editorial 2
Part One — an early experience Eamon Dyas The way in which Europe is currently committing a slow economic suicide in the wake of what is effectively a US geopolitical exercise in Ukraine stands in marked contrast with what happened in 1981-82. The more robust stance adopted by Europe at that time promised the possibility of an independent Europe … Continue reading The United States policy towards Europe’s energy needs
Richard Jones Part 5: Science and Politics, Climate and Weather It was nearly forty years ago that I read that the majority of scientific research world-wide was funded entirely or partly by the US war machine, in one guise or another. I never verified the claim, but as far as I remember it was from … Continue reading Reflections on questions concerning global warming
By Gwydion M. Williams Putin’s Nuclear Gamble Threaten carefully In China, Bears Shit in the Woods! Must We Be Eyeless In Gaza? How to Reverse Progress and Be Very Baffled Snippets Trump Abandoning Taiwan? Conciliation Within China Reaching across the Pacific India Neglects Its Poor Putin’s Nuclear Gamble Russians have a history of losing many … Continue reading Notes on the News
John ClaydenIt is difficult to contemplate one's demise and even more so that all life on this planet could cease. Since the invention of nuclear weapons this has become a possibility. With some friends I attended a meeting in Trafalgar Square in the early 60s where Bertrand Russell warned us that if we did not take … Continue reading Need for a peace movement
We mustn’t become a country of dropouts and uneducated people! Our schools are on fire. Figures we obtained from the Federal Statistical Office show that more and more pupils are leaving school without a qualification: Last year, 17 per cent more than two years previously. This is no wonder, as our education system is in … Continue reading Sahra Wagenknecht Newsletter November 2024
By Gwydion M. Williams BRICS and the G7 Hegemony The Unwisdom of the New Right At Home in BRICS The Sacred WASP Democracy of the USA Millionaires as Wealth Consumers Snippets Taiwan – Beijing Could Just Blockade A Palestinian Anne Frank? Non-Wealthy IT Pioneers BRICS and the G7 Hegemony BRICS is now claiming equal authority … Continue reading Notes on the News
By Gwydion M. Williams Chickenhawk Politics A War For Peace? The Myth of Leninist Failure The Invention of Pure Ukrainianism I offer good news – a nuclear war harming any part of Europe is very unlikely. The entire Ukraine war has been fought within limits. Whatever they say in public, US and European leaders act as if … Continue reading Wars of the Chickenhawks
Richard Jones Part 5: Climate Politics vs Climate Science My title for this instalment is descriptive of the content, but began as reference to a dilemma. I thought of the last episode as being about the science, and aimed to address the politics now. Then a friend, paraphrased, said "after that account of the politics, … Continue reading Reflections on questions concerning global warming
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