A Political Refugee From The Global Village

'Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.' Ron Nesen, Gerald Ford's press spokesma...

A Ukrainian has been identified by the Germans as responsible for the sabotaging of the Nord Stream pipeline. He was presumably acting on o...

  Obama came in about the middle of the period in which US presidents were wholly captured by the Israel lobby. The 'capture' appear...

"And then the war starts and the Russians immediately reach out to the Ukrainians to talk about negotiations to end the war. This is ri...

New Palestine Party: Visit of Menachem Begin and Aims of Political Movement Discussed To the Editors of the New York Times: Among the most d...

'The English name for the capital of Ukraine is Kiev.' Peter Hitchens As Quentin Crisp reminded us, a bejewelled Eva Peron went on t...

I was just reading what Mr Gladstone wrote in 1876 about the so called Bulgarian Atrocities. I am put in mind of what the Israeli army is do...

 

Hungarian Communist leader Janos Kádár' s aeroplane pilot   told him in 1971 that Leonid Brezhnev had suggested Hungary take back Transy...

"Dream not, Coleridge, of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!" Charles Lamb "You...

"Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?" Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers “If you’re very, very stupid, how can you pos...

Progressives are as often bigoted as the far right.  Dr Johnson's dictionary defines a bigot as "a person whose opinions are blindl...

Interviewer: "When you were in the trenches, was there one thing you missed the most?" Robert Graves: "Kippers, since you ask...

Retired U.S Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson in this interview with Glenn Diesen explains that he was told by someone in the US government that t...

"Freedom is not the same as independence. Americans will not support those who seek independence in order to replace a far-off tyranny ...

A British journalist friend living in Belgrade  was told by his taxi driver that Yugoslavia was an EU before the EU. He is a very keen belie...

I am just back from Serbia and lots of parallels spring to mind thinking about Yugoslav history. King Alexander instituted a royal dictators...

I reached Belgrade smoothly last night, sharing a car with the Secretary General of the liberal party who told me about the mafia involvemen...