Revolutions are Revolting

Revolutions are rarely what they appear to be. There was precious little Russian participation in the Russian Revolution. Let’s instead call it what it was; the hijacking of a nation by mostly non-Russian armed insurrectionists bankrolled by Wall Street....

Don’t Panic, Don’t Panic Just Yet

Channel 4 TV was not irresponsible when it set out a ‘what if’ scenario should the collapse of the euro in an EU member state trigger a chain reaction leading to the currency’s collapse. Certainly it is speculative but that is healthy. Speculation...

The Arms Industry Will be Pleased

Of recent there have been reams of newsprint devoted to the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan; and its cost, not the least in human lives. Who profits is to be found in the small print. With escalating violence tearing that nation apart...

WikiLeaks Faces Down The Banks

Whilst WikiLeaks has built its worldwide reputation on government and more unconventional methods of waging warfare it says 50 per cent of its whistleblower input is related to neither. What founder Julian Assange describes as ‘an ecosystem of corruption’...

Julian Assange: Dead Man Walking?

Loathed by some and loved by others Julian Assange is a man in a suitcase as he keeps one step ahead of an international posse out to settle scores. The Australian founder of WikiLeaks is renowned for embarrassing mainly but not exclusively western...

The Thin Blue Line is Broken

Student and public demonstrations are nothing new but they achieve significance during periods of societal change. Ordinarily they are safety valves when public frustrations build up a head of steam. The protest over, the placard-bearing crowds are...

Welcome to Devil’s Ireland

Given Ireland’s record of poverty-fuelled emigration it is depressing to discover it profiting from the similar miseries of others. Today it bears the shame of being the European hub of human trafficking between Asians, Africans and young Latvian women. Shockingly...

The Real Terror of Flying

Present-day hysteria about child abuse, pornography and the photographing of children has led to absurd situations with sinister overtones. Parents are dragged through court for taking a bath time fun picture of their child. A young father photographing...

Who Owns the American Dollar?

I have never heard anyone question who owns the U.S. dollar as it seems obvious; the state owns and manages it. Not so quick: It belongs neither to the government of the United States nor, being a republic, to its people. The actual dollar has...

Is the U.S. Dollar Finished?

A remarkable consortium of six nations gathered last year in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg. Its purpose was to plan a strategy to replace the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. The Shanghai Corporation Organisation may sound innocuous...