The hard right nears power in Italy
There’s an election in Italy next Sunday, almost exactly 100 years after Benito Mussolini’s ‘blackshirts’ marched on Rome…
The risk of a ceasefire dwindles in Ukraine
Two months ago, John Bolton wrote an article in ‘The Hill,’ the leading politics website in Washington, warning…
Gorbachev and Russia’s futile attempt at empire
This is not another pipe-sucking reassessment of Mikhail Gorbachev’s failed attempt to democratise the Soviet Union 30 years…
Might Russia use its ‘tactical’ nuclear weapons?
The president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, last week announced that the country’s combat aircraft have been ‘upgraded’ by…
Delving into the motive for killing Russia’s Darya Dugina
“I am a political observer of the International Eurasianist Movement and an expert in international relations…. In this…
Ukraine war and a case of Mother May I?
“This obviously does not happen because of a thrown butt,” said British Defense Minister Ben Wallace. But the…
Nancy Pelosi’s last hurrah in Taiwan
Nancy Pelosi’s brief visit to Taiwan last week caused great if somewhat confected anger in Beijing, but the…
James Lovelock was Darwin’s heir
Jim Lovelock was a late bloomer. His first book, ‘Gaia: a New Look at Life on Earth’, was…
Monkeypox is a reminder to be prepared
Monkeypox is very unpleasant and it spreads very fast, but it’s not a real killer: 16,000 cases in…
Iran nuclear situation at the end of the road
About six weeks ago Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), warned that the…