Current Affairs

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  • The miracle of Lebanon

    The miracle of Lebanon is that it did not de-generate into the mess of the 1970s and 1980s. The Lebanese security forces have managed a crisis through extraordinary diplomacy even though it has been starved of funding by a political class that has been driven by infighting. Parliament has managed to elect a new government,…

  • Long term security

    They term it a summit, a place that has been designated a neutral spot where the elements of an argument can be settled. Maybe these are just exploratory talks between two men delving into the dark side of a war that has cost hundreds and thousand of lives, but the candidness of Trump to welcome…

  • Witness of war….killed

    The argument that you can assassinate a journalist without evidence, challenges all journalists in war zones. Israel is yet to provide evidence that Anas al-Sharif, a journalist for Al Jazeera was a Hamas mole. The idea that voices are being lost in this war is also an act that closes down independent voices from media…

  • At first it was denials, then admittance – the excuses…. Is the Tony Blair foundation above criticism

    The Neenah Cherry song 7 seconds, is about starvation, war, pestilence and disease. Bob Geldoff got onto the phone to his mates and pushed to save the millions dying in Ethiopia, but the originator of the war in the Middle East – Tony Blair took advice and argued that $9,000 would cut the population of…

  • Epstein still haunts Trump from the grave…

    Epstein Trump’s $10 billion law suit is all over the news. The Wall Street Journal, the bastion of business and one of Rupert Murdoch’s most prized possessions seems very certain that the birthday card Trump sent to Epstein is legitimate. The $10 billion legal case brought by Trump is a SLAPP,(strategic Lawsuit against public participation)…

  • America, trying to move into manufacturing. (will it work)

    It won’t be the tariffs that Trump will regret, it will be the way he is going about negotiating at the top table that will challenge his ideas and arguments. Honda and Toyota, are already manufacturers in the United States and may find themselves in an advantageous position, but that really does not tell the…