One of the projects I dream of but never shall produce( Read more... )

For decades now we have been importing war. The massive immigration of Muslims into western countries - began with the aftermath of the Algerian war in France and with the opening of West Germany to hundreds of thousands of Turkish gastarbeiter, “guest-workers” whose grandchildren are there still - has inevitably brought to the West the native ( Read more... )

Anyone who thinks that the massive police operations - they barely deserve the name of war - carried out by the USA and its allies since September 11, 2001 could have been avoided are talking total nonsense. What do they propose the USA should have done? Sat there and taken it? The reaction was absolutely inevitable, and indeed the rest of the ( Read more... )

...and the reason why people debating it will never understand each other, is that there is a larger question about the current situation. Is it a war, yes or no? If it is a war, then a targeted assassination of an enemy leader such as this one is perfectly justified and correct; what is more, it is an excellent move, in the enemy's own code. Osama ( Read more... )

This is the worst few days the Republicans have had in years. First, Obama sinks the Trump candidacy with all hands after he had imprudently been allowed to become a serious candidate. Second, he delivers the body of Public Enemy No.1, signed, sealed and delivered - a wholly different moment from the sense of slog and useless effort that was so far ( Read more... )

Nearly every right-wing American commentator in the last two days has gone doolally about the guilty sentence against a terrorist involved in the infamous bombing of the US embassy in Tanzania. With all the grace and intellectual gravitas of a lynch mob, they all howl at the judge, yell at the jury (traditional legal rights such as being tried by ( Read more... )

If I come across as irritable, and if I have a temper, it is to some extent - not largely, but at least to some extent - because I have spent all my life, literally from childhood, bashing my head against a soft, crushing, unconquerable obsession of the modern West, which poisons Italy and has all but murdered Britain: I mean the heresy of dialogue ( Read more... )

Yes, we are fortunate. Like the great men of a time we thought we might never see again, we have our chance to defend freedom.( Read more... )

I will superimpose two pieces of news I have recently read. Let anyone who has any goodwill and mental openness see what conclusions they lead to.

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