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The Murder of Julian Assange
The Murder of Julian Assange It was a fool’s errand. On the day Donald Trump was elected his supporters asked him to pardon the founder and frontman of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange. They flooded social media demanding Assange be allowed to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London without arrest and extradition to the United States. Stone silence […]
Why Russian Gas Is Critical For The UK
Why Russian Gas Is Critical For The UK Although some companies have learned to ride the waves of geopolitics quite efficiently, still in most cases political tensions only complicate the dealings of energy companies. The Skripal poisoning case has driven a massive political wedge between the United Kingdom and Russia (nations whose relations are historically […]
All Russiagate Roads Lead To London As Evidence Emerges Of Joseph Mifsud’s Links To UK Intelligence
All Russiagate Roads Lead To London As Evidence Emerges Of Joseph Mifsud’s Links To UK Intelligence Over the last few months, Professor Joseph Mifsud has become a feather in the cap for those pushing the Trump-Russia narrative. He is characterized as a “Russian” intelligence asset in mainstream press, despite his declarations to the contrary. However, […]
The UK’s Hidden Hand in Julian Assange’s Detention
The UK’s Hidden Hand in Julian Assange’s Detention Photo by Billy Bob Bain | CC BY 2.0 It now emerges that the last four years of Julian Assange’s effective imprisonment in the Ecuadorean embassy in London have been entirely unnecessary. In fact, they depended on a legal charade. Behind the scenes, Sweden wanted to drop the […]
Images Of British Troops Deployed In London
Images Of British Troops Deployed In London As Prime Minister Theresa May promised, troops have been deployed to guard “key locations,” including the Palace of Westminster, several embassies and “other sensitive sites,” in London and other British cities, the Evening Standard reported. The mass deployment follows Monday’s attack at Manchester Arena, which killed 22 kids […]
Brexit: The System Cannot Hold
Brexit: The System Cannot Hold Stephen Green 18×24 inches. 2016. Acrylic on canvas. MuseumofAwesomeArt.com Well, they did it. A majority of Britons made clear they’re so fed up with David Cameron and everything he says or does, including promoting the EU, that they voted against that EU. They detest Cameron much more than they like […]
Brexit: Wrong Discussion, Wrong People, Wrong Arguments
Brexit: Wrong Discussion, Wrong People, Wrong Arguments G.G. Bain Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, New York 1907There’ve been a bunch of issues and topics on my -temporarily non-writing- mind, and politics, though as I’ve often said it’s not my preferred focus, keeps on slipping in. That’s not because I’ve gotten more interested in ‘the game’, but because […]
UK’s European Future In Jeopardy: London Mayor Boris Johnson Will Campaign For Brexit
UK’s European Future In Jeopardy: London Mayor Boris Johnson Will Campaign For Brexit Yesterday, when we summarized the statements by UK politicians regarding the June 23 EU referendum, we said the one most important opinion has yet to come: that of London mayor Boris Johnson’s whose “opinion may sway the vote one way or another […]
Lines Around the Block to Buy Gold in London…Banks Placing “Unusually Large Orders for Physical”
Lines Around the Block to Buy Gold in London…Banks Placing “Unusually Large Orders for Physical” First, let’s look at the improved fundamentals. Gold bugs will exasperatingly proclaim that fundamentals have been great for the past four years yet the price plunged anyway, so who cares about fundamentals? To this I would respond with two observations. First, large […]
It Gets Ugly in the Toniest Parts of London
It Gets Ugly in the Toniest Parts of London Those once “awash with cash don’t have as much to spend.” It gets ugly for luxury homes in the toniest parts of London. The combined value of homes that were sold in prime central London, which includes Belgravia and Chelsea, plunged 24.5% in 2015, year-over-year, to […]
The City’s stranglehold makes Britain look like an oh-so-civilised mafia state
The City’s stranglehold makes Britain look like an oh-so-civilised mafia state Dodgy donations, misselling, trading scandals, tax evasion: wherever you sniff, something stinks ‘The financial sector exploits an astonishing political privilege: the City of London is the only jurisdiction in the UK not fully subject to the authority of parliament.’ Illustration: Sébastian Thibault Be reasonable […]
GCHQ and me: My Life Unmasking British Eavesdroppers
GCHQ and me: My Life Unmasking British Eavesdroppers I stepped from the warmth of our source’s London flat. That February night in 1977, the air was damp and cool, the buzz of traffic muted in this leafy North London suburb, in the shadow of the iconic Alexandra Palace. A fellow journalist and I had just spent three […]
Kafka-like Persecution of Julian Assange
Kafka-like Persecution of Julian Assange In an era when powerful institutions demonize decent people – and the mainstream media joins in, piling on the abuse – legal proceedings have become another Kafka-esque weapon of coercion. Few cases are more troubling than the persecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, as John Pilger describes. The siege of […]
