Tag: Europe
Rather than being some kind of prophet, Orwell was a literary Cold Warrior who plagiarized works and critiqued the Soviet Union more than he did Nazi Germany
The current state of ever-expanding government surveillance and endless war elicits frequent comparisons to George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The conventional biography portrays...
Orwellian Days
During his first presidency, Trump told 30,573 lies, yet he calls his privately owned online outlet “Truth Social”—which sounds like it is straight out of the Ministry of Truth. Hence, we need to revisit the thinker who is believed to have said “In a time of universal deceit...
In a markedly revealing September 22nd interview with The National, U.S. special envoy to Syria Tom Barrack made a number of stunning admissions about the state of play in Lebanon.
Despite Western governments demanding for months that Beirut disarm Hezbollah, he acknowledged the resistance group had “zero” incentive to voluntarily...
On October 9, Israel and Hamas announced the adoption of a cease-fire agreement involving the release of all hostages held by Hamas.
Israel, in exchange, agreed to allow for the entry of humanitarian aid, to release Palestinian prisoners, and to withdraw its forces to a so-called “yellow line” from which...
The criminal case of ex-France President Nicolas Sarkozy touches the historical tensions between Muammar Gaddafi's Libya and Western powers, particularly France. In a recent development, a Paris court sentenced Sarkozy to five years in prison for criminal conspiracy, marking a historic conviction for a former French president.
The charges? They...
Foreign politics and censorship in Denmark, where I have lived off and on for 35 years, is actually worse than in the United States today. Not one of the 16 political parties with members in the 179-seat Danish Parliament (follketing) supports Russia’s reasons for its “Special Military Operation” (SMO)...
Far beyond any notion of solidarity between brotherly nations divided by an ocean, the reception of Brazilian exiles in Portugal during the 1970s was marked not by warmth, but by strict surveillance, diplomatic intrigue, and covert maneuvers. From the perspective of Brazilian intelligence services, Portugal appeared to waver between...
I’m honored to be invited to join P.D. Lawton, Jeremy Kuzmarov, Milton Allimadi, Jean-Marie Higiro, and Lawrence Freeman here. I know a bit about most everyone’s particular areas of expertise, but particularly those of Milton and Lawrence, so I’m sure we’ll be hitting a few of the same...
When I was young, my parents worked long hours. As a result, I spent much of my childhood with my grandparents, whose outlook on life always fascinated me—though at times, it left me deeply unsettled. Their time was not my own; it always moved more slowly, as if our...
New disclosures add weight to theory that Burisma was part of CIA operation
On February 21, 2019, a confidential source told the FBI that two CIA officers went with Mykola Zlochevsky, owner of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that appointed Hunter Biden to its board, to the office of...
