Notes on the News By Gwydion M. Williams Brexit Failures Wearing Out Russia China ‘bites the bullet’ for Covid-19 Snippets Australia Day a Bad Memory Normal for China Cities Fit for Humans? Hindu Racism The Internet as Electronic Slum Killer Railways in the USA Brexit Failures “What would genuine plan for levelling up the north … Continue reading Notes on the News
Ukraine
Conway Hall Cancels
Cancellation of No2Nato event —25 February 2023 — Conway Hall A Conference organised by No3Nato/Workers Party of Britain has been cancelled by Conway Hall, the Home of Free Speech, a month before it was due to take place on 25th February 2023. Previously St Pancras Church had also succumbed to pressure and cancelled the same proposed meeting. At … Continue reading Conway Hall Cancels
On Strikes and Wars — Editorial 2
Can British trade unions defend their members’ standard of living without taking a position on the war in Ukraine? The standard of living of the British working class has fallen because NATO is engaged in a war against Russia using Ukraine as its proxy army. Do British trade unions support this NATO war against Russia? If so, should … Continue reading On Strikes and Wars — Editorial 2
Ukrainian Refugees and ‘small boat’ Asylum seekers
Eamon Dyas By the end of July 2022, the U.K. government had estimated that 104,000 Ukrainian refugees had arrived in the UK in the previous 5 months. [See: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/100000-ukrainians-welcomed-to-safety-in-the-uk %5D By the 24th of August 2022 data compiled by the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford showed that over 115,200 Ukrainian refugees were officially living in … Continue reading Ukrainian Refugees and ‘small boat’ Asylum seekers
Stop the War in Ukraine—Peace Talks Now
Trade Union anti-war conference Saturday 21st January 2023 With Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan and RMT president Alex Gordon TRADE unionists gathered at central London’s Hamilton House today for a conference on strengthening voices for peace in the labour movement. The World at War — a Trade Union Issue has been called by the Stop the … Continue reading Stop the War in Ukraine—Peace Talks Now
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
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
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
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
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
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
An American Faces the Facts
Kissinger at Davos, 2022 Kissinger is aware of the possible catastrophe looming as a result of American action in Ukraine Transcript Henry Kissinger: [00:02:59] Let me thank you for letting me return to Davos, because it is such a crucial forum for the exchange of ideas all over the world. But the outcome of this turning … Continue reading An American Faces the Facts
Notes on the News
Notes on the News By Gwydion M. Williams Biden’s Failed Anti-Russia Crusade Covid – Another US Failure Climate Chaos and Lost Butter Mountains Philippines – better Rough Justice than No Justice No Privacy for Some Murderers Snippets The Radical Young in Britain The Failing Young in the USA Killing Journalists OK in Israel? Armenia – … Continue reading Notes on the News
Orecchiette
Listening to Italy by Orecchiette Parties Italians commemorate their Liberation Day from Nazi fascism on 25th April. This year's celebrations were the largest ever; La Repubblica estimated 70,000 were gathered in Milan's cathedral square. Dignitaries made appropriate speeches throughout Italy but Matteo Salvini's Lega did not appear at all. Further controversy followed a Tweet made by Vito Petrocelli, M5S's (Five Star) … Continue reading Orecchiette
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