What is going wrong with America? The Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown Connecticut on December 14th is the latest of a rash of tragic shooting sprees. In the US, sixteen indiscriminate shootings have occurred since January 2012. This record number compares to an average of about two a year…
The standoff between Iran and the Western powers over Iran’s nuclear program is threatening to escalate to a full-scale war. Iran refuses to curtail its nuclear programme, despite the obvious threat to Israel, a country it states it wants too see wiped off the map; four nuclear scientists have now…
The 2012 London Olympics will last only 17 days yet already the bill for maintaining law and order and preventing a terrorist spectacular is estimated to be £1 billion. 12,500 military personnel, 12,000 police officers, the largest two Royal Navy ships HMS Ocean and HMS Bulwark, rapier air-defence missiles, air…
What provoked the unstoppable wave of liberation in Czechoslovakia in 1989? Vaclav Havel died 18th December 2011. He is justifiably recognised as the hero of the Velvet Revolution that overthrew the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. That unstoppable wave of liberation transformed the country from a puppet Soviet satellite state to…
Nine years after taking up occupation in Iraq the US has finally pulled out its 110,000 troops. Stabilising Iraq has not been an easy task with 4,484 US soldiers dead and 30,000 injured along with another 317 coalition troop fatalities. The process has hardly been painless for the Iraqis either,…
