By Jim Hayes
Following France’s presidential election has been instructive. Like in Australia, it is obvious that a large part of the population has lost faith in its politicians. This became marked 2017 with the rise of Emmanuel Macron and his new party La République En Marche (LREM). Macron won the presidential race then and he rest is now history. Continue reading France’s presidential election and the fall of traditional politics
“The arguable point of law is that these fake, these phoney assurances [with #Assange‘s extradition] were put outside a court of law.”
Video from Consortium News
Though the 1920’s and 1930’s fascism grew to a scourge in Europe and other places. Its financiers were the super-rich in Europe and the United States. One example was Henry Ford, who is said to have kept a picture of the German Fuhrer on his desk. Adolf Hitler was reputed to have a picture of Henry Ford on his desk. Ford didn’t stop here. He used his newspaper The Independent to spread Nazi views and was active in the American Nazi movement. He wasn’t alone. Continue reading Ukraine is showing elements of forgetting the lessons of history
Everyone will agree that the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces is a terrible development. People have already died and more will do so. There will be political and economic damage that will last well past the present conflict. It would have been much better if this hadn’t happened. But the reality is that this is not the way it has gone. Continue reading Roots of Ukrainian crisis must be addressed to find the peace
The crisis over Ukraine is still at boiling point. The world has not been in such a dangerous place since the Cuba missile crisis of 1962. The threat of world war is real, and we all have a duty to do whatever we can to pull together and out a stop to it. Continue reading Ukraine crisis drift toward war must be stopped
Continue reading Julian Assange takes step towards challenging extradition at Supreme Court
By Joe Montero
The United States, United Kingdom and Germany are itching for a war over Ukraine. There has been a deluge of war preparation propaganda. It goes this way. Russia’s bad President Vladimir Putin wants to invade and the freedom loving nations want to stop him. Continue reading There is far more going on in Ukraine then we are being told
Everything is not as it seems in Myanmar. The story we get through the media and politicians, is of a country where one side is fighting for democracy and the other is a dictatorship. It is not this simple.
The United States has been backing and often leading armed militants and fake “human rights” groups in Myanmar for decades.
This video explores the British colonial roots of Myanmar’s current ethnic armed groups, the futility of their struggle, how it serves the same divide and rule methodology used by the British generations ago.
Digital currencies are here and set to explode into the scene. To most people they are still something confined to the internet and not real. Digital currencies are very real though, and will increasingly intrude into our lives. Continue reading Are virtual currencies democratising money or a threat?
All the pretense over progress at Glasgow’s COP 26 talks can’t hide that it has been a monumental failure, exposing the real nature of many of the world’s leaders. They are far short of what the world needs today.
The so-called Glasgow Climate Pact has betrayed us to an at least 2.4 Degree Celsius rise in global temperature. Continue reading Failure of COP 26 means reliance must be on the people bring about change
