Gernika 75
75 years ago yesterday the infamous German Condor Legion bombed and obliterated the Basque town of Gernika. And so aerial bombardment of urban populations became a central part of warfare. Terrorism from the… Read More
75 years ago yesterday the infamous German Condor Legion bombed and obliterated the Basque town of Gernika. And so aerial bombardment of urban populations became a central part of warfare. Terrorism from the… Read More
I caught most of the Mayoral ‘debate’ on ITV1 last night. Was it me or was it totally underwhelming? Livingstone looked tired and going through the motions without much belief. Johnson didn’t say… Read More
Western Europe learns about fragmentation. No more will states be created and destroyed according to whims of ambitious diplomats in London, Paris or Madrid playing God. We all know how Belgium is papering… Read More
Carbon in the form of oil and gas drives geo-politics more than most. What are the chances of a Free Baluchistan later this decade? The on-off rebellion could have wings now that the… Read More
I took a ‘sabbatical’ for the best part of a year, doing other things. Now, I am in the mood to return to putting pen to paper (or this finger to keyboard or… Read More
Oro alcanza un precio récord apenas por debajo de 1.600 dólares la onza. Algunos predicen que llegara $ 2,000 por Navidad, y hacia 5.000 dólares en los próximos años ya que los gobiernos… Read More
Gold reaches a ‘nominal’ record price just shy of $1600 an ounce. Some predict it reaIching $2000 by Xmas, and anything up towards $5,000 in the next few years as Western governments print… Read More
German troops beyond the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan? Who would have thought it in the days before the fall of the Berlin Wall…. but nowadays no one bats an eyelid… who isn’t in… Read More
Some ‘progressives’ must be a little concerned that they parroted all the bumph from Whitehall and the State Department about how all the bombing was being done to ‘protect civilians’ and that it… Read More
In our Washington-London centric world, we really seem to think that the world revolves around us. After 30 years of free market capitalism ran aground on the rocks of Lehman Brothers, sub-prime mortgage… Read More
