China has lodged a formal diplomatic representation with the United Kingdom after Chinese nationals, including trade delegates, tourists and people visiting relatives, were subjected to extended questioning and the confiscation of personal
The last American military parade that I saw was the inauguration of President Dwight Eisenhower in 1953 – not counting my days in the US Army. It was a hell of a
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Mutzig, France – First stop on my annual visit to France’s mighty Maginot Line forts is this lovely Alsatian town. Mutzig was built by the Germans 1893-1916 to defend against enemy approaches
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The UN’s Under-Secretary-General just warned that 14,000 Palestinians children risk starving to death in the coming hours due to the total Israeli blockade of food, medicines and water. Thousands of other adults will
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‘White farmers are being brutally killed in South Africa’ warned President Donald this week amid all the uproar and craziness over tariffs, world trade and kickoff of a campaign to force Big Pharma
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One of the world’s, oldest and most dangerous conflicts went critical this past week as nuclear armed India and Pakistan traded threats of war. The Kashmir conflict is the oldest one before the
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The world mourns Pope Francis, a good, loving man who brought the Holy Mother Church back to the people and made his native Argentina proud. Francis was a welcome change after the
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President Donald Trump wants to be a modern ‘Stupor Mundi or wonder of the world. The last ‘stupor mundi’ was the celebrated German Holy Roman Emperor and crusader, Federick II, known as
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The US is clearly massing military forces for what many experts believe will be a full-bore attack on Iran. The big question, is this a part of President Trump’s usual negotiating strategy
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Switzerland. ‘Fight to the last cartridge, then use your bayonets!’ Gen. Henri Gulsan So warned the retired US general Ben Hodges in an interview with the newspaper SonntagsBlick. Hodges was the former US
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Professor Parkinson was so right. In the 1950s, a mild-mannered British naval historian named Cyril Northcote Parkinson stuck a devastating blow against bureaucracy. His crucial analysis is even truer today than when The
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“Germans are either at your throat or at your feet,” quipped old war-lover Winston Churchill. Today, Germans are at our feet – an astounding 80 years after the end of the Second
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President Donald Trump gets a lot of things wrong. Chief among them is his crazy plan to ethnically cleanse two million Palestinians from the smoking ruins of Gaza. But he also gets
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Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, Aga Khan IV, hereditary Imam of the world’s 12-15 million Shia Ismaili Muslims, died recently in Lisbon, Portugal. What a life he led. The Aga Khan (Great Khan as
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Canadians are among the world’s calmest, most polite, and gracious people. They are also, in my experience, peaceful, honest and modest. You never see them angry – except for now. Donald Trump,
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The Great White Father in Washington has spoken. Let mere mortals hark and obey. Gaza is a ‘mess’ said President Trump and must be ‘cleaned up.’ 2.1 million human refuse are befouling this
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