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The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement – the pact between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye signed in August – has been described inaccurately by Andrew Korybko and others as “the Muslim NATO”. This is nonsense, since the orientation of it and the reasons for it have little to do with Russia. Tariq Ali has described it…
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The late Brendan Hughes famously described the Good Friday Agreement as the “Got F*** All” agreement. He had a point in relation to the Republican objective: The Republican War was concluded by the IRA with Northern Ireland still part of the British State and Sinn Fein administering British rule within a new Stormont. The Good…
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It has been fashionable to talk of the World War of 1914 as having resulted from sleepwalking by the European powers. This, of course, is complete nonsense. Any reading of British accounts, including the insider memoirs of the illustrious Cabinet Secretary, Sir Maurice Hankey, shows that there was a well-worked out and purposeful plan for…
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In Chapter 4 of his Unfinished Victory book, ‘The Dreamer of Munich,’ Arthur Bryant describes the rise of Adolf Hitler. This is the chapter that most of all came under attack from contemporary critics and from which later commentators draw their damning quotations. It should be noted that in the reproduction below this commentary we…
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When the US President launched the war on Iran on 28 February – after the Israeli Prime Minister triggered him into action – this is how he described his war objectives. “The United States military is undertaking a massive and ongoing operation to prevent this very wicked, radical dictatorship from threatening America and our core…
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In Unfinished Victory Arthur Bryant also wrote about how the outworking of the Great War of 1914 impacted on the Jews within defeated Germany and devastated Europe. The Holocaust of the European Jews is now taken to be the undisputable justification for why Britain fought its Second World War against Germany. That war against Germany…
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In June’s Irish Political Review Brendan Clifford wrote of ‘The Phenomenon Of Anti-Semitism!’ He observed that the— “Jewish mode of national existence was viable when there was a world order consistingof Empires. In 1917/18 most of the Empires fell. They were not overthrown bynationalist revolutions. It was only in Ireland that there was a nationalist…
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Available Now available from Amazon UK in e-book, softback and hardback editions. A 436 page book of 10 chapters on the causes, course and consequences of one of the most consequential and catastrophic events in history – The Great War on Ottoman Turkey. Contents Introduction Chapter I. Britain and the Ottoman Empire p.5 Chapter II.…
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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…
