Louis XVI needed a revolution, Napoleon needed two historic military defeats, the Spanish Empire in the New World needed multiple revolutions, the Russian Czar needed a communist revolution, the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires needed World War I, the Third Reich needed World War II, the Land of the Rising Sun... » read this article
When Iranian student activists occupied the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979 as a result of the Iranian Revolution, the US and Britain condemned the Iranian provisional government of Prime Minister Bazargan even though it was not responsible. The US, UK, and their allies ranted and raved about the sanctity... » read this article
Editorial Comment:
Dr Gwynne Dyer was born in Newfoundland in 1943, before Newfoundland was part of Canada. But he is a Canadian, so he is my confrère.
He obtained a BA in history at Memorial University, a Masters in Military History from Rice University, and a PhD in Military and... » read this article
The United States would paint itself as a promoter of human rights, but any right to make that claim is long gone
Ecuador has now made its decision: to grant political asylum to Julian Assange. This comes in the wake of an incident that should dispel remaining doubts about the... » read this article
Ecuador Foreign Minister responds to British Government threat to invade their embassy in London:
"I will hit you hard, but if you behave I might not."
Ecuador has granted political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The decision comes almost two months after the world-famous whistleblower came to the country’s embassy... » read this article
News Bulletin. Axis of Logic commentary , BBC. Axis of Logic
Editor's Comment: The UK is threatening once again to violate international law in the most egregious and unprecedented manner. They've done it throughout history, most recently in their bombing of Libya. This time their threat is without precedent: to invade Ecuadoran Embassy in London, sovereign territory of the country of Ecuador. If they... » read this article
Arturo Rosales writing from Caracas. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic
Arturo Rosales writes from Caracas
In a firmly worded statement today at 0430pm Caracas time, Ecuador’s Foreign Minister, Ricardo Patiño, informed the international media via Telesur that his ambassador in London had received a threat from the UK authorities that the embassy “would be invaded” if Ecuador granted political asylum... » read this article
This is a story of two letters and two Britains. The first letter was
written by Sebastian Coe, the former athlete who chairs the London
Olympics Organising Committee. He is now called Lord Coe. In the New
Statesman of 21 June, I reported an urgent appeal to Coe by the... » read this article
Hounded by police and bailiffs, evicted wherever they stopped, they did not mean to settle here. They had walked out of London to occupy disused farmland on the Queen's estates surrounding Windsor Castle. Perhaps unsurprisingly, that didn't work out very well. But after several days of pursuit, they landed two... » read this article
