ISIS are very misunderstood
I have already written here about what ISIS is and where they came from, so will try not to cover the same ground twice. ISIS/ISIL, variously known as Islamic State in […]
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Can Zionism be compared to Nazism?
Increasingly, on the social media, the better informed people are drawing analogies between Zionism and Nazis, between Hitler and Netanyahu, in what must be the biggest ongoing Godwin of all […]
Zionism is a problem for all of us
Get a dictionary and look up Concentration Camp and you will see that it accurately describes Gaza today, then look up Genocide and you will see that it accurately describes […]
What is ISIS?
ISIS have recently attracted attention by invading Iraq. The Western media and many online commentators have been describing them as al Qaeda, or as Syrian opposition fighters. They are neither […]
Nuclear proliferation and Iran
So Iran seems to be trying very hard to make a nuclear bomb and you would wonder why they would go to so much effort and expense. Could it be […]
Syria, staring into the abyss
Of all the countries involved in the Arab Spring uprisings Syria is the most important at so many levels. They have the most repressed population with the least human rights. […]
Have the Americans suddenly decided that they like democracy and human rights?
As I have written on here previously America has a long tradition of bringing down democratically elected governments and of giving massive support to rather nasty dictators. They found this […]
Are al-Qaeda actually Muslims?
Well the death of Osama bin Laden has pretty much exposed the weakness and hypocrisy of the al-Qaeda movement. Firstly in bin Laden’s compound they found an extensive stash of […]
The Economist proposes a better voting system
I have explained already here why the proposed Alternative Vote (AV) voting system is a bad idea. In fact even its chief proponent, Nick Clegg, described it as a […]
AV voting, no thank you
The Liberal Democratic party in Britain come third in general elections and are fed up with this. So instead of coming up with policies and candidates that attract more votes […]
Untainted sources for your news
This morning on the Radio 4 Today programme Ed Milliband was questioned with some thoroughness by Evan Davis and you could almost hear the collective jaws of the nation hitting […]
We need nuclear power
Currently nuclear power is in the news because of an incident in a Japanese nuclear power station that was subject to earthquake forces that were many times what it was […]