A Most Dangerous Option for Germany
Last week, a delegation of executives from major German corporations met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Such delegations are unremarkable. Sometimes they travel together to…
October 2017
Things We Lost In The Mire – 41
N KOREA/MISSILE – N Korea is thought to be preparing to launch a ballistic missile ahead of a joint naval drill by the United States…
The Forgotten War
The horrors of the Las Vegas shooting, the North Korean nuclear situation and BREXIT, is the perfect cover to allow Assad and Putin to try…
North Korea: Where China Can Beat the US
Of all the parties involved in the Korean missile crisis, the most difficult to read is China. The Chinese Foreign Ministry’s almost daily platitudes about…
Things We Lost In The Mire… 40
GERMANY/IMMIGRATION – Chancellor Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union has agreed on the issue of a refugee cap with the Christian Social Union says Reuters quoting sources….
The Week That Was
There was one major story which, although tragic may not change things much, and another, which despite receiving much less coverage might change a lot….
History in the balance
One of the most profound truisms of history is that which rests fate on the head of a pin. Scholars in mid-15th century Constantinople were…
Catalonia, Spain’s Internal Affair
Leon Trotsky once said that “every state is founded on force.” It’s an unpleasant truth that we would all rather forget, but it’s important to…
Things We Lost In The Mire – 39
N KOREA/JAPAN – Japan has warned of the possibility of further missile or nuclear tests by North Korea on Oct. 10. The date marks the…
Catalonia and the Crisis of Identity
By Tom Arms. Economists love globalisation. It allows them to achieve what their fellow bean counters the accountants call economies of scale. This has substantial…