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The Congo, its Minerals and its Tribalism
When the United Nations pulled its troops out of the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, in June 1964, Secretary General U Thant reported, "The UN cannot permanently protect the Congo from internal tensions and disturbances created by its own organic growth towards unity and nationhood". → Read More
Hong Kong: The British should have taken tougher stance earlier
China was determined, although they said the opposite, to roll democracy back,. → Read More
Wanted: Change of tactics in Ukraine
We don’t know if non-violent tactics would be successful in thwarting the Russian advance and occupation, but they would have more of a chance than any violent activities. → Read More
There’s no need for war with Russia
The West is supporting an unnecessary war, playing with fire as it builds up Ukrainian firepower, → Read More
To be fair, we need more equality
Plato, the great scholar of Ancient Greece, said that the differences between rich and poor should not exceed a ratio of one to four. → Read More
Are the poor getting hungrier?
The world is whipping itself into a lather about the jump in world food prices. → Read More
Despite Ukraine, war is ending
The democracies do not go to war with each other, as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher long ago observed. → Read More
China’s drug lesson for the world
China was clean for 40 years, until the demise of Maoism. Gradually opium has returned. → Read More
Who is left? Who is right?
It goes back to the French revolution of 1789. At the Revolutionary Convention the most radical of the insurgents decided to seat themselves on the left side. → Read More
Absurdity of the US suddenly falling in love with the ICC
In 2017 the office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court released a report which for the first time explicitly named US military forces in the field and CIA operatives in secret prisons as possible war crimes culprits for their alleged use of torture and rape. → Read More
Nazism in Ukraine: Is Vladimir Putin right?
Lost in the clouds of combat we forget how the violence in otherwise peaceful Ukraine came about. The spark that lit the fire was struck in Kiev’s central square, the Maidan. In 2014... → Read More
Will Russia use nukes in Ukraine?
In the Cold War days, some of us used to say “Better red than dead” to rebuff those who believed in “role-the-dice nuclear deterrence” as a way of political life that gave them security. → Read More
Down with war, up with Europe
The seeds of World War II were sown during World War I. The map of Europe had been partly redrawn to German’s disadvantage. Germany was bled almost dry by reparations. → Read More
Is Nato obsolete, or brain-dead?
What did ex-president Donald Trump think about Nato? Twice during his campaign, he rubbished it publicly , saying it was “obsolete”. Three years ago the French president Emmanuel Macron said Nato was “brain-dead. Is it obsolete or brain-dead or both? → Read More
Breaking a promise to Russia
The Russian European dreamers have included Pushkin, Lenin, Gorbachev and, until relatively recently, President Vladimir Putin. → Read More
Ukraine: The goal of abolishing war
Frederick the Great of Prussia was a friend of Voltaire and enjoyed ribald evenings with the philosopher discussing the intricacies of life’s dos and don’ts. Before becoming king he was persuaded... → Read More
The chickens are coming home to roost
Are the West’s chickens coming home to roost? If the Western powers had gambled two percent of Nato’s budget and met the Soviet Union’s economic needs in President Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnost era there would have been a much less de-stabilising transition and today there would have been a recognisable democracy. → Read More
From Bethlehem- A view of misthought Israeli history
Perhaps the biggest single misthink in Western history is best understood by standing in the town square of Bethlehem, allowing one’s gaze to pass over the roof top of the Church that covers the... → Read More
Cities built for man
“What did these vain and presumptuous men intend? How did they expect to raise their lofty mass against God, when they had built it above all the mountains and clouds of the earth’s atmosphere?”... → Read More
Could it be that the world is getting better?
We had much to be glum about as we came to the end of 2021. We are brainwashed with bad news. → Read More