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  • Sudan – the forgotten war

    There is a scenario that between 500,000 and 1 million Sudanese will die of starvation or disease in Sudan. Food prices have increased by up to 83% because farmers have not been able to gather the harvest. The fighting has moved from the centre of Khartoum to the province of Gezira the breadbasket of Sudan and is proving…

  • Revisionists and war

    It is just about the only time that arguments are defined biblically, but the start of extended wars has encapsulated not just Netanyahu but also Putin. The war in Gaza is one of biblical proportions according to the hard line cabinet that Netanyahu has gathered as a government. In many ways Putin has argued that…

  • Is Myanmar close to finding a negotiated return to democracy

    Myanmar is complicated, it is really a number of states in a state. It is also a geopolitical hotspot where the big game is played for the wealth and strategic alliances that can be made by small and large nations. Groups are fighting a war to return the country to civilian rule, but it is…

  • Sweden’s move to the right

    Sweden a country known for openness transparency and gender equality, has changed, there is a new populist government that has opened the door to the far right.  There is an image of Sweden that it is a socialist utopia, but there is something else, it is rebelling against immigrants, taxes and change has come from…

  • Ukraine – NATO…. Russia

    Constants are at the top of the list in Warsaw and Paris; the Baltic’ nations press ever harder for Ukraine to join NATO, but Germany and the US have made certain that Ukraine will not be joining NATO any time soon. The constant in this equation is Putin, who has been re-elected with an eighty…

  • China has not quite weaned itself off the black stuff

    There is an argument in China that there should be harmony between nature and industry. But the fossil fuel that has industrialised China has been coal. China to its credit has argued that by 2060 it should be carbon neutral, but that does not explain the investment in coal powered power stations and as such,…