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Category Archives: UN
The best lack all conviction
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. 18 July 2013 Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the … Continue reading
Posted in China, Ireland, Literature, UN
Tagged "The Second Coming", Belfast, Ulster, William Butler Yeats
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A smoking gun
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. 11 July 2013 Talk about a smoking gun! As we suggested on 5 July 2013 in … Continue reading
Posted in Egypt, Military, UN
Tagged coup d'état, F-16 fighter jets, Guns not butter, Mohamed Morsi, Potomac, Roman Empire
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Jam tomorrow
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 February 2013 Yesterday the London Guardian published an obituary of Irish trade unionist and human … Continue reading
Posted in Ireland, UN
Tagged Inez McCormack, Mary Robinson, the haves and the have-nots
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Illusions perdues
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. 14 December 2012 The rumour going round the media mills today is that US Democrat President … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Palestine, UN, USA
Tagged Galba, Henry Kissinger, Noam Chomski, Perry Anderson, Tacitus, United States and UNESCO
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Wage differentials
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. 8 December 2012 We all know that salaries in the First world differ considerably from those … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Germany, Switzerland, UN, USA
Tagged Brazil, Denmark, Geneva, globalisation, Philippines
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Fertile Crescent
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. 7 December 2012 ISRAEL AND PALESTINE “I think that people want peace so much that one … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Israel, Palestine, UK, UN, USA
Tagged Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gamal Abdel Nasser, nakba, UN admission of Palestine
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Perfidious Albion
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. 28 November 2012 PALESTINE, THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE BALFOUR DECLARATION Tomorrow Thursday 29 November 2012 … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Palestine, UK, UN, USA
Tagged Balfour Declaration, Jenny Tonge, Leslie Turnberg, Walter Rothschild, William Hague
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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
Posted in France, Syria, UK, UN, USA
Tagged Édouard Deladier, Francisco Franco, Kofi Annan, Nero, Neville Chamberlain
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Not walking the talk
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. 31 May 2012 ONE LAW FOR THE RICH, ANOTHER FOR THE POOR The Greeks don’t seem … Continue reading
Smelling a rat
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. 20 May 2012 POLLS THAT STINK A seminal question about one aspect of the current … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Germany, Greece, UN
Tagged drachma, euro, European Union, Greek polls, smelling a rat
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