Mads Gilbert, Dr James Smith, Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah Israel is starving the entire population of Gaza - to the point of death, for a growing number of Palestinians. There is not a single place in the world where starvation is an inevitability: not after major environmental disasters, amid drought and crop failure, or during armed conflict and … Continue reading Israel is starving Gaza to death, and still the world does nothing
The UK Nuclear Deterrent
Will David Lammy have to go “naked into the conference chamber”? Opposing a resolution in favour of nuclear disarmament at the Labour Party conference in 1957, Aneurin Bevan declared “if you carry this resolution and follow out all its implications … you will send a British Foreign Secretary, whoever he may be, naked into the … Continue reading The UK Nuclear Deterrent
Review of A Misfit in Moscow: How British Diplomacy in Russia Failed 2014-2019, by Ian Proud, self-published, 2023.
By Eamon Dyas The author was a member of the United Kingdom Diplomatic Service between 1999 and 2023. In that capacity he was responsible for the organisation behind the 2013 G8 Summit which took place in Northern Ireland and which was the last occasion Vladimir Putin visited the United Kingdom. Having applied to work at … Continue reading Review of A Misfit in Moscow: How British Diplomacy in Russia Failed 2014-2019, by Ian Proud, self-published, 2023.
USA Going to the Robodogs
By Gwydion M. Williams Trump is President for the second time, because he promises to do something about the long-term decline of the USA as a manufacturing power. Not just cheap production of US designs, which is how it started in the 1980s. Being aware that Mao’s China had launched satellites and exploded hydrogen bombs after … Continue reading USA Going to the Robodogs
Notes on the News
By Gwydion M. Williams Crimea, Victim of West Ukrainian Extremism Lies as the Poison of Democracy Squeezing Protestors Global But Ignoble Fading Fear of China Snippets Old World Civilisations Unite? Diversity for Superior Persons? Is Dyslexia a Woke Imaginary Illness? What Actually Works? US Pressure on India Crimea, Victim of West Ukrainian Extremism “Crimea is … Continue reading Notes on the News
Palestine Links
Israel is starving Gaza to death, and still the world does nothing (Mads Gilbert, Dr James Smith & Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Middle East Eye, 1 May 2025) Syria’s Druze fearful after deadly attacks on Damascus suburbs (Madeline Edwards, Middle East Eye, 1 May 2025) Amnesty International: Israel committing 'livestreamed genocide' in Gaza (Mera Aladam, Middle East … Continue reading Palestine Links
Uyghurs: why encourage an independentist Islamist group?
Compare two letters to the UN Human Rights Council sent in in July 2019. The first from 22 states (UK, EU states, etc) is critical of China about the Uyghurs; the second from 50 states (including most Muslim majority states) praises China's treatment of the Uyghurs. See The “22 vs. 50” Diplomatic Split Between the West … Continue reading Uyghurs: why encourage an independentist Islamist group?
Sahra Wagenknecht Group—Letter to Supporters
[Labour Affairs: This long letter from the leadership of the BSW comes at a difficult time for the party. After a strong showing in regional elections at the end of 2024, the failure to gain seats in the Bundestag at the recent general election in February came as a crushing disappointment. However, the letter is … Continue reading Sahra Wagenknecht Group—Letter to Supporters
The Workhouse Party
Keir Starmer took a decision some years ago to change the electoral base of the Labour Party so that many people, who would traditionally vote Conservative or Liberal Democrat, might now vote Labour or at least abstain from voting for their usual party. A major tactic to achieve this result was a commitment to fiscal rectitude. … Continue reading The Workhouse Party
Peace or Primacy—Editorial 2
There is nothing in the recent history of the US to suggest that it would ever choose peace over primacy. After the dissolution of the USSR in 1989, the US saw an opportunity for advancing its primacy in the world. It took it and, in Europe, began expanding NATO’s borders eastwards towards Russia, despite having agreed not … Continue reading Peace or Primacy—Editorial 2
Why Ukraine has Failed as a Multinational State
By Eamon Dyas Modern Ukraine emerged as an independent state from the most multi-national state in history – the Soviet Union. When it did emerge from the Soviet Union, Ukraine itself bore the characteristics of a multinational state in the form of a presence within its borders of Russian, Hungarian, Romanian, and Cossack minorities with … Continue reading Why Ukraine has Failed as a Multinational State
Ukraine and Russian energy—Part Four
The European Commission’s Failure to Serve Europe’s Energy Needs Eamon Dyas The US marshalled and directed the events of 2014 in Ukraine in order to scotch the prospect of a Russian-friendly Ukrainian government re-emerging. The US did that as part of a strategy to prevent, or at least, impair, the evolving relationship between Europe and … Continue reading Ukraine and Russian energy—Part Four
Reflections concerning global warming…. Aspects of climate science
Richard Jones What is climate science? "Lapses of scientific integrity in climate science have become normalized." When I began writing this series, I hadn't looked critically at any of the real or fake science concerning climate change. I was reacting to the torrent of political and commercial marketing of climate change, promoting for example electric … Continue reading Reflections concerning global warming…. Aspects of climate science
Political Parties aligned with the Working Class
What are they and how should they operate? Dave Gardner Political Parties use social action to achieve political objectives. In order to defend collective interests within the state, one needs an organisation that has the potential to form a government. This basically is what a political party exists to do – to form a government … Continue reading Political Parties aligned with the Working Class
Palestine Links April 2025
Israel is working overtime to hide its crimes (David Hearst, Middle East Eye, 13 March 2025) Palestinian captives in Israeli prison face 'health disaster', advocacy group warns (Middle East Eye, 27 March 2025) Israel parliament passes bill bringing judicial appointments under political control (Middle East Eye, 27 March 2025) How operating drones became a death … Continue reading Palestine Links April 2025
Pensions as Ponzi & Evil Keynesianism
By Gwydion M. Williams Trump and Musk are giving voice to what members of Britain’s Labour government must be privately thinking. Saying more crudely what the elite have come to believe. It is just not possible to fund welfare to the needy. The state risks going bankrupt, and welfare is anyway mostly wasted. It is not explained why … Continue reading Pensions as Ponzi & Evil Keynesianism
Notes on the News
By Gwydion M. Williams False Fears of Russia Russian Nationalism Killed the Soviet Union From NATO to NUTO? Decentralised China Snippets Privatisation Blight in Denmark Kurds Admitting a Tragic Defeat Revolting Long-term Results of the Anti-Marcos Democratic Revolt You Want the Moon? You need SpaceX Why Workers Tried Trump Again “Not being the United States is … Continue reading Notes on the News
Has Trump abandoned Ukraine?
Eamon Dyas Comments on a BBC article by Alan Little entitled: “Trump has blown up the world order - and left Europe's leaders scrabbling”“The [post 1945] generation grew up in a world that looked, sounded and behaved more like the United States than ever before. And it became the western world's cultural, economic and military … Continue reading Has Trump abandoned Ukraine?
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