Senor Victor Radazzo, the former head of intelligence for the Argentinian Federal Police, has been tracking secret Special Forces battles that took place during the Falklands War in mainland Argentina. He has photographs of graves and the bones of dead British soldiers, plus this photograph below, which he says is of some of the SAS …
One of many sad things about the current Gaza disaster, is how little thinking is taking place. Especially as some “liberals’ seem now to be siding with Hamas – a brutal terrorist group. Polarisation is as ever killing ordinary people. Neither side will relent. Israel isn’t going to stop settling Palestinian “territory” because that would be to …
TS Elliot measured his life in coffee spoons. It seems these days we express ours in terms of kittens. This use of irrelevance to give meaning to life reminds me of a woman who appeared in a BBC television survival series I co-presented called “Bare Necessities”. She used her survival instincts to make a swing for herself …
A second term President has the potential to do a lot more in his second “first hundred days” than in his first term. But being hamstrung by party bickering and lack of majority, President Obama will struggle with his budget and other domestic reforms. Hamstrung Presidents usually turn to foreign policy, where they’re not …
Pork-Barrel Lobbyists, Fit Women and the Threat to US Democracy Read More »
It’s strange that it’s taken a particular sort of phone hacking target to cause the condemnation and outrage that has engulfed News International – of the especially vulnerable victims of high profile crimes. The actual crime – hacking – is the same whether it’s of a wayward tv soap star or a 911 victim. But …
Senator Jay Rockefeller is asking that News International be investigated in the USA for alleged phone hacking of 911 victims. As Mr Murdoch’s empire gets most of its revenue from 20th Century Fox and the Fox network, losing its name in the USA is potentially very serious. But I’d say this is actually a wake-up …
News International really IS “international” – like terrorism Read More »