Things We Lost In The Mire – 38
IRAN/KURDS – The Iranian military launched military exercises near the Iraqi Kurdistan on Sunday, the day before the region’s independence referendum. Iran, which has a…
Germany
Things We Lost In The Mire – 35
GERMANY/TURKEY – Relations are becoming even more bitter. Chancellor Merkel has criticized Turkey over the detention of another 2 German citizens. 12 are now being…
Germany Again
My apologies for constantly returning to Germany but for the moment it is the pivot of the world. Germany is the fourth largest economy in…
Mutti Merkel’s Not Finished Yet
Europe’s leading politician is in trouble. Chancellor Angela Merkel won three elections during the golden years of the last decade in Germany but the shine…
A Special Relationship for the UK After All
Michael Roth, Germany’s Minister of European Affairs, made some striking comments about the United Kingdom’s relationship with the European Union yesterday. Roth said, “Given Britain’s…
Things We Lost In The Mire – 5
SYRIA/RABIA The Russian backed government fightback continues to make advances. Assad loyalists have retaken the last major town (Rabia) in Latakia province which was controlled…
The stench of bad Cologne
On New Year’s Eve, perhaps as many as a thousand North African or Middle Eastern men groped, molested and possibly raped woman in the vicinity…
Worse than the Nazis…
It is a peculiar habit we all share of rating things that are simply unquantifiable. Who was the greatest heavyweight boxer, the most accomplished artist,…
Greece: Do Mention The War…
Beware of Greeks Bearing Lists The Greek government, flailing around in a debt crisis partially of its own making, has played the ‘German guilt card’…