Interview with former US National Security Chief, Zbigniew Brzezinski
'Le Nouvel Observateur' (France) Jan 15 1998 re support for 'mujahideen' in late seventies/eighties Afghanistan after Reagan declared them 'the moral equivalent of America's founding fathers'.
(Could of course be Blair/Bush/Sarkozy being interviewed about their policy re Iraq, Libya, Syria, where the...
Secret documents found in the Australian National Archives provide a glimpse of how one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century was executed and covered up. They also help us understand how and for whom the world is run.
The documents refer to East Timor, now known as Timor-Leste,...
Individual acts of this type happen all the time, I know, but we have here a rather different phenomenon - a huge number of attackers of one non-German ethnic/cultural/religious group (young male North African Muslim Arabs) appearing to work in concert. No doubt some of my friends will attempt...
Following the ISIS outrages in Beirut and Paris, John Pilger updates this prescient essay on the root causes of terrorism and what we can do about it.
In transmitting President Richard Nixon's orders for a "massive" bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, "Anything that flies on everything that...
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Melissa Fleming – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 8 December 2015, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
UNHCR is releasing today the results of a preliminary questionnaire of over 1,200 Syrian refugees who arrived...
Why has so much journalism succumbed to propaganda? Why are censorship and distortion standard practice? Why is the BBC so often a mouthpiece of rapacious power? Why do the New York Times and the Washington Post deceive their readers?
Why are young journalists not taught to understand media agendas and...
Marienna Pope Weidemann from Swanage is Volunteering/reporting from the refugee road through the Greek island of Lesvos. This is her first submission from the Greek island.
Lesbos, Greece - Police beatings, tear gas, hunger and chaos. It sounds more like the repression of the Arab Spring than an official UN registration centre...
Clue: We are told their economic mire has a lot to do with laziness.
EU
ALL
37.4
FT
41.6
Austria
37.8
43.7
Belgium
36.9
41.7
Bulgaria
40.9
41.3
Cyprus
40.0
42.1
Czech Republic
41.2
42.3
Denmark
33.8
39.1
Estonia
38.6
40.8
Finland
37.4
40.3
France
38.0
41.1
Germany
35.6
42.0
Greece
42.2
43.7
Hungary
39.4
40.6
Ireland
35.0
39.7
Italy
37.6
40.5
Latvia
39.2
40.8
Lithuania
38.3
39.7
Luxembourg
37.0
40.5
Malta
38.8
41.4
Netherlands
30.5
40.9
Poland
40.6
42.2
Portugal
39.1
42.3
Romania
40.5
41.0
Slovakia
40.5
41.5
Slovenia
39.6
41.8
Spain
38.4
41.6
Sweden
36.5
40.9
UK
36.3
42.7
Yes that's it: Greece. According to the ONS (2011) taking all employment and averaging it the people of Greece work 6 hours a week longer than the people of the UK. The Netherlands work on...
This seems the clearest explanation of what is happening in the world today. It is one that the everyone should take seriously.
US SPHERE OF INFLUENCE
1. The Arab Spring was a democratic uprising. It took the US by surprise. (Sarkozy had to drag Obama into Libya kicking and screaming.)
2. The...
Upon the waves
The Swarm it floated,
In coloured boats
Much overloaded.
To the gates of Hellas
From Samarkand,
To escape from hell
They've fled their lands.
And striking out
Across the sea,
Their prized possessions
sat on their knee.
Children as young as
Two and four,
They brought them with them
By the score.
They risked their future
Their blood, Their kin?
They're only trying
To save...
