Geopolitics
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The Cyprus dispute goes back to the early 1960s, when the Greek Cypriots started to gradually erode the constitutional rights of the Turkish community on the Island. There were a series of pogroms and massacres of the Turkish population. The fascist coup in Cyprus, aimed at annexation of the island by Greece, led to Turkish…
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“Caught in a trap, I can’t walk out, Because I love you too much, Bibi!” President Trump is caught in a trap – very much of his own making! In being the leader of the Western Hemisphere, Trump has also ensnared the West in the trap, laid by Netanyahu and Israel over decades. For at…
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Israel has made its third attempt in 8 months to destroy Iran. This time it has got what it always wanted – the full power of the United States as its instrument. In previous pieces the present writer has asked the question of Trump: Is it America First or Israel First? That question was answered…
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Is it ‘America First’ or ‘Israel First’? Is President Trump his own man – or is he just Israel’s bitch? We will probably find out the answers to these questions shortly. The United States has assembled an unprecedented amount of naval and air power in the vicinity of Iran. Over half of the operational US…
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A second US/Israeli attempt, in 6 months, aimed at regime change in Iran has failed. The last attempt, made during June 2025, involved an Israeli sneak attack followed by a 12 day war on Iran. Iran responded with a defensive war that hurt Israel so much that Trump was forced to intervene on its behalf.…
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“You can check in any time you want but you may never leave.” (The Eagles, Hotel California) That might be said of the Petrodollar system that sustains US power and influence in the world and largely explains the gunboat diplomacy employed by Washington against Venezuela. In his press conference explaining why the US launched a…
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The current Western propaganda suggests that an intransigent Russia is refusing to accept a reasonable Western proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine. Russia, moving slowly across Ukraine, is bent on conquering Europe and is a threat to us all. We must rearm and conscript our youth to meet this threat – before it’s too late.…
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Germany, the killer of 6 million Jews, has insisted that if Israel is excluded from the Eurovision Song Contest it will boycott the competition. A number of Germany’s European colleagues – Spain, Ireland, Netherlands and Slovenia – are insisting that Israel’s genocidal activity in Gaza needs to be punished. After all, wasn’t Russia the subject…
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War is a catastrophic form of activity. In a war the concentrated power of violence of one state meets that of another. War is therefore a very fundamental kind of activity which has far reaching social consequences in the victorious as well as in the defeated society. Wars are usually ended by the defeat of…
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Andrew Roberts, who can be exposed for his smearing character-assassination of Arthur Bryant, was himself exposed a few years ago by the late Manus O’Riordan as a signed-up propagandist for M16. Andrews wrote the “official history” of MI6 about a decade ago in which he smeared Jack Jones and others. As Manus revealed, Andrews in…
