Category Archives: Syria

A plague o’ both your houses!

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  2 November 2012 AMERICA DESERVES BETTER Next Tuesday 6 November 2012 voters in the United States … Continue reading

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Fiddling Nero

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.   9 September 2012 THE LESSONS OF MUNICH Emperor Nero sang and fiddled while Rome burned, according … Continue reading

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Rooting for Romney

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.   4 June 2012 Yep, that’s right. We’re rooting for Romney. There’s a story told about American … Continue reading

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War is peace

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.    15 April 2012 WAR IS PEACE Thirty-two people are reported to been killed in fighting … Continue reading

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Urbi et Orbi

8 April 2012 Easter Sunday URBI ET ORBI In terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis Romae. In sua oratione pascuali hodie pro multitudine centum milium fidelium, in foro Vaticano, Papa Benedictus XVI incitavit pacem in terra atque finem caedis, praecipue in … Continue reading

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Crocodile tears

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.   3 April 2012 SYRIA The foot-dragging over what to do about Syria continues in diplomatic circles … Continue reading

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Syria threatened by blitz of conferences

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.   16 March 2010 CONFERENCES TO BE HELD AS LONG AS THE SLAUGHTER CONTINUES A cunning ploy … Continue reading

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Что делать? What is to be done? (Part 2)

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 12 February 2012 FROM EPICURUS TO KARATZAFERIS Что делать? What is to be done? That … Continue reading

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Quills and cutlasses

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.      10 January 2002     “The pen is mightier than the sword.”   Not, … Continue reading

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UK police told to respond more aggressively to future disorder

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