By Gwydion M. Williams New Nuclear Devices The Strategic Defense Initiative Defensive Weapons Air and Sea – Next to Space? New Nuclear Devices You may have seen stories about Putin announcing a new nuclear missile – or is it two? Claiming it can get through any defence, but how? The key matter is Russia developing a … Continue reading The death of Reagan’s Star Wars
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Notes on the News
By Gwydion M. Williams The Western Betrayal of Real Equality Anarchism: a Guarantor of Failure Iran: a Martyr-Nation for Islam? Reagan’s Encouragement of Market Parasites The Western Betrayal of Real Equality From 1945, with the common people who’d been victors of World War Two insisting on more equality, the leaders of the West appeared to … Continue reading Notes on the News
The United States policy towards Europe’s energy needs
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
Notes on the News
By Gwydion M. Williams From Russia, With Scorn Shallow Democracy China’s Successful Leninism Snippets You know nothing, Bill Gates Replacement Americans Sad With Libertarian Freedoms Swiss Remain Human From Russia, With Scorn (Written before the terrorist attack of 22 March.) Making an enemy of post-Soviet Russia was a massive error by the New Right. Proof … Continue reading Notes on the News
The Mixed Economy and Dogmatic Individualism
Ordinary Britons have been victims of a fraud that began in the 1980s. Started before many of today’s voters were even born. Thanks to tight control of the popular media by the very rich, a reversion to 19th century capitalism was sold as the only option. Liberal critics speak vaguely of a Western failure after the … Continue reading The Mixed Economy and Dogmatic Individualism
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
The Anarchy of Production
By Gwydion M. Williams Most of the Cold War was fought by the West in defence of the Mixed Economy. Many of its defenders would have denied that the Mixed Economy was even capitalism. Rather more agreed it was capitalism, but an improved Mixed Economy Capitalism. Something that worked much better than the capitalism that caused … Continue reading The Anarchy of Production
Where’s Sid?
Privatisations: The aftermath. by Feargus ORaghallaigh At a time when even rightwing newspapers like ‘The Times’ and ‘The Daily Telegraph’ are lamenting the failures of the privatisation of public services and the Labour leadership is afraid to talk of returning them to public ownership, it is a good idea to remind ourselves of how this … Continue reading Where’s Sid?