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Israel--Hamas War I know I am only an armchair warrior, but I have lived long enough to say that I have never experienced such a war. Since the start of The Israel-Hamas war on the 7th… Read More

AbstractI start by surveying the origins of the social problems gripping most European societies: rising crime, radicalism, racialism and Jihadism, mainly among the youth of Black and Muslim… Read More

Eighty years ago, Winston Churchill declared one of the aims of the Second World War to be the ‘enthronement of human rights’. Within a decade, the United King… Read More

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Finally, we see the back of Boris Johnson. His wish came true; he didn't want to be a one-term Prime Minister. He never was fit for Downing Street; he should've stuck to his columnist and ma… Read More

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The dislocated world of the Arab Middle EastGamal Abdel Nasser, 1918-1970, Egyptian army officer, prime minister (1954–56), and then President (1956–70) of Egypt has a lot to ans… Read More

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Mind The Gap Battle-scarred Britain must look after its own to narrow the gap of inequality. As the COVID-19 outbreak took hold, in no time it became a global pandemic in Marc… Read More

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Part 1: The China Conundrum This blog post will be in two parts concerning three main issues.  First, on the hesitant flow of information during the first crucial… Read More

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In the event of a War with Iran, to which the pro-war Neocons in the Trump administration are vying for, and desperate to provoke the Middle East finds itself on the brink of disaster.&n… Read More

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At his trial [for treason], Alexander Ulyanov Lenin’s older brother), refused to be represented by counsel and carried out his own defence. In an attempt to save his comrades… Read More

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A historical account of the French Revolution 1789, presented here in a series of six parts.  Explains the philosophy behind it and the immediate reasons that finally made the breakthr… Read More

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Nationalism “I’m not a white nationalist, I’m a nationalist. I’m an economic nationalist…The globalists gutted the American working class and crea… Read More

Part 2 - Globalisation The intention of globalisation is for a tendency to encourage free movement of goods, people and services around the world and to harmonise price and quality… Read More

Part 1 of 3 - Capitalism What is Capital? Capital is value in motion.  Capital in circulation is sequential continually undergoing changes. One minute it is paper, then it is liq… Read More

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Let us try to define what a Nation is.  From the many definitions, I have come across this is the best: “a human group willing to forming a community, sharing a common cultu… Read More

An interesting read for those interested in Middle East Politics.  Put another way for those interested to read about American design and cunning objectives for that area.  Reg… Read More

Iraq, its death seems an easier option;  substituting the pain of life to the peaceful stillness of sleep. Hammurabi (1792-1750 BCE) was the most famous king of Babylon. &nb… Read More

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Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said a million people should “take to the streets to force Theresa May from power”. “The Tories have blood on their hands” and… Read More

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Abortion or rights to abortion or the right to kill a human being can they ever entail justifiable moral right? Considering abortion from a moral perspective must be one of the… Read More

I’m Tibetan, I’m Buddhist, and I’m the Dalai Lama, but if I emphasise these differences it sets me apart and raises barriers with other people. What we need… Read More

Bernhard von Bülow (1849-1929), who served as Reich Chancellor from 1900 to 1909, gave his famous speech on Germany’s “place in the sun” when he was foreign minist… Read More

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Many people easily confuse Morality with Ethics, so let us get that out of the way for starters. I will also hastily say you will not find right or wrong in this essay but it can if… Read More

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln 16th U.S. President There is a fog of ambiguity about the man Donald… Read More

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Erdogan proclaims Mosul and Aleppo belong to Turkey World War I cost the Allied forces 5.5 million deaths.  While the Central Powers one of which was the Ottoman Empire… Read More

Straight away I explain, this post will be about the importance of The Individual and Individual Rights over a common misconception that there is a universal moral code many who be… Read More

The word Phenomena has an interesting concept.  Rummaging through the pages of Oxford English Dictionary, (OED, I find Phenomena to mean  "A thing which appears, or which is… Read More

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi on a televised broadcast on Monday morning 17th October 2106 declared the start of the liberation of Mosul, north of Iraq, which since June 2… Read More

How far are we from a civil war in France?   Another attack and another massacre to hit French soil last week, Nice, which must make France as number one target for ISIS… Read More

If you thought as is widely known there are no shifting tectonic plates under the British Isles, you would be wrong.  On the early hours of Friday 24th of June 2016, the ground shif… Read More

This article concentrates on one theme - Sovereignty “The poor quality of debate on a topic as complex as EU membership carries the risk that this crucial vote is decided not on… Read More

It was in 1973 Britain finally gained entry into the Common Market giving the EU its old name.  Edward Heath, the British Conservative Prime Minister, had steered British entry in… Read More

This article concentrates on one theme - Immigration. In Britain, as in the United States, we see British Democracy is tending to turn inwards.  With its increasing national problem… Read More

This is a short reply I gave to a friend recently. Is Marxism a failed philosophy? An interesting question to which I hope I can lend some justice.Let's examine the fallout since its Hegeli… Read More

Scott's Credo: “To empathise with those most different from one’s own moral culture, without necessarily sympathising. This is our call to comprehend. If we can only grasp why… Read More

Abu Yusuf Ya‘qub ibn Ishaq Al-Kindi (ca. 800–870 CE) a well-known ancient Iraqi philosopher, a member of the Arab tribe of Kinda, in his address to members of the caliphate fam… Read More

Scott's Credo: “To empathise with those most different from one’s own moral culture, without necessarily sympathising. This is our call to comprehend. If we can only grasp why… Read More

Also: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/europe/22825-bbc-forced-to-admit-it-misled-over-palestine There you have it folks.  Are we seeing the degeneration of factual n… Read More

“Don’t fear the tears from our maternal eyes. Away from us grief-making cowards! When you take up arms we must triumph; It is for Kings to shed tears. We gave you life; Wa… Read More

“With the possible exception of Nuclear weapons, capitalism is the most powerful of human inventions.” Edward Luttwak, (Political Scientist and Historian) There is a dist… Read More

Hilary Benn's Speech at the House of Commons in favour to Bomb Syria 2nd December, 2015 An excellent speech though it was, solving that issue of the Middle East needs more strategy than pas… Read More

The course of this article will form an enquiry to determine qualifications, if any, of the relational basis between cultural nurturing and male chauvinism with their relevance of wearing… Read More

A stateless nation as Egypt today is a rudderless nation with no aim in sight but a blurred political landscape for a perspective.  For now it lacks a legitimate constitution to steer… Read More

The hour glass of time can arguably be infinite; since the world had evolved rather than created so the self of man evolves with it.  An evolution of time runs parallel with our own… Read More

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The current turmoil amongst the people of the Middle East, with worse to come, is a stark reminder that copying European political ideology needs time to realise if at all.  Even i… Read More

For almost every subject especially those that can ignite passion when extending moral judgments would have its pros and cons in ethical as well as legal contexts.  I will attempt to… Read More

An edited version of this article was first published by me on my Facebook page on the 15th of August, 2013 it has now been updated.  As with all articles dealing with current af… Read More

This is an article not so much an argument for or against but presents an insight to shed some  light on the historical origin and  consequent routes of Zionism and  its… Read More

There are thousands of brand new rifles and machine guns for sale never been used, still under guarantee and they have only been dropped once. Sounds like an ad for E-bay but such is the s… Read More

"Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" are the immortal words that are enshrined by the people of the United States of America and are the axiom of the US declaration of indepen… Read More

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This is an article of the same title in response to both the new situation we find in the aftermath of ISIS taking over large swathes of territories in Northern Iraq including Mosul and&nbs&helli…Read More

Marking the Centenary of Armenian Genocide: Speaking in the House of Lords in 1999, Baroness Cox came clean: “Given the importance of our relationships (political, strategic, comm… Read More

ALERTS TO THREATS IN 2013 EUROPE From JOHN CLEESE The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent events in Syria and have therefore raised their security level from "Miffed"… Read More

A guru once told me, well he didn’t but I just like to make it up perhaps it gives more authority to what I am going to say.  Actually I don’t know any gurus and I wouldn… Read More

http://realityparadigm.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/ron-paul-dollar-will-collapse-gold-will-go-to-infinity/The more improbable that headline may be the more real it could happen. Why should we… Read More

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People who want to flatter us to dull our caution in dealing with them are using a very dangerous tool, like a sleeping potion which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us only the mor… Read More

Dear Hikmat, I am writing to you this as a tribute to our short but close friendship. Wherever you are I hope you will see this and have a good nostalgic smile.  A smile, that at fir… Read More