It’s the end of a long song, a lament. In 1975 I was a runner for the late Mr. Tony Benn, bringing his tea and tobacco to the stage in the days one still could belch pipe-smoke into a large and enthusiastic audience. He was at one and the same …
Read More »Western belief that globalization can only move in tandem with ITS ideology is at the core of current confrontation with China
In 1992, Japanese-American scholar Francis Fukuyama authored a book titled ‘The End of History and the Last Man’ which fabled liberal democracy as the final, inevitable and ultimate stage of man’s evolutionary development. The timing was no coincidence, only a year earlier, the Soviet Union collapsed and brought an end …
Read More »Republicans and Democrats shoot down Trump’s proposed changes to Covid relief bill
President Trump has promised to veto a $2.3 trillion spending package that allocates $900 billion for coronavirus relief, and $1.4 trillion in other government spending. After Trump ordered Congress to increase direct aid to Americans from $600 to $2,000 and cut out a slew of cash bonuses for foreign countries, …
Read More »‘We have taken back control of laws and our destiny’: Prime Minister Boris Johnson delights in Brexit deal
Speaking from Downing Street on Christmas Eve, UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson praised the work of the “brilliant” negotiating teams who had secured a trade deal between the EU and UK. Johnson said that the UK had agreed on 58 free trade deals with nations around the world but asserted, “I pleased …
Read More »British government says it reclaimed control over its ‘money, borders, trade & laws’ with new UK-EU Brexit deal
Shortly after painstaking agreement was announced, British government released a large statement giving itself a huge pat on the back and hailing its achievement. The agreement reached is “fantastic news” for everyone in the UK, London insisted and the country will regain “full political and economic independence” on January 1. …
Read More »In last-ditch attempt UK and EU agree post-Brexit trade deal after 11 months of deadlock
European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, and EU Chief Negotiator, Michel Barnier announced that a deal has finally been agreed between Brussels and London. The two parties have been negotiating since January 31, after the UK officially left the EU and entered the transition period. “We have finally found …
Read More »Time to chart Scotland’s future as ‘independent, European nation’: First Minister Sturgeon reacts to UK-EU Brexit deal
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Read More »‘It will be a challenging year’: Russia’s minister of justice talks to RT about legal battle with ‘Yukos oligarchs’ & 2021 outlook
It’s now expected that Russia’s cassation appeal against the ruling of the The Hague Court of Appeals, which has denied its latest motion, will be considered in February 2021 in the Supreme Court of the Netherlands. As well as the battle over Yukos, Minister Chuychenko also explained his official’s work …
Read More »If Biden seeks to put a shorter leash on Russia, he may find Putin’s bite is far worse than his bark
In the aftermath of the revelations regarding the stunning SolarWinds cyber attack which has exposed the computer networks of multiple US government departments and agencies, along with those belonging to more than 17,000 civilian corporate clients, the anti-Russian rhetoric has reached new heights in Washington, DC. While formal attribution to …
Read More »Good news for vaccines? Covid-19 immunity lasts for at least eight months, Australian researchers say
Melbourne’s Monash University announced that a team of researchers found that antibodies guard against reinfection for at least eight months. Their paper, published in the journal Science Immunology, is the “strongest evidence” yet that coronavirus jabs could be a workable solution to the health crisis, the university said. Previous studies …
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