Article Category: Foreign Frolics

IS THE US PRESIDENT A HEAD CASE?

October 19, 2017
by Gary Leupp Forget the Russia election-collusion issue. It’s not going anywhere. To bring... Read more »

THE DAESH STORY IS NOT ENDING

September 7, 2017
By Ramzy Baroud IRAQ’S second largest city, Mosul, has been reduced to rubble. It... Read more »

VENEZUELA: THE US WANTS ITS COUNTRY BACK

August 10, 2017
Nicolas Maduro WHAT IS taking place in Venezuela is an attempt at counterrevolution. Washington... Read more »

THE STORY BEHIND THE JERUSALEM ATTACK

July 27, 2017
Donald Trump By Ramzy Baroud Al-Aqsa is believed to be the second mosque ever to... Read more »

MOVING CLOSER TO DOOM

June 29, 2017
by BRIAN CLOUGHLEY THE Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic... Read more »

THE RUSSIAN HACKING FIASCO

May 17, 2017
By Mike Whitney THERE’S NO proof that Russia hacked the US elections. There’s no... Read more »

WAR WITH NORTH KOREA: NO JOKE

May 3, 2017
By John Stanton THE 1953 Korean Armistice signed by the United States, China and... Read more »

DID ASSAD REALLY USE SARIN?

April 19, 2017
by Paul Gottinger ALMOST IMMEDIATELY after video of the alleged chemical weapons attack in... Read more »

BEFORE TRUMP, THE BORDER WALL WAS A BIPARTISAN PROJECT

February 9, 2017
by OLIVER ORTEGA RIGHTWING fantasies of a southern border wall are not new. Nor... Read more »

BOB’S BAUBLE

October 20, 2016
by DAVID YEARSLEY THE NOBEL literature committee has wiped away the last blob of... Read more »

ALF SMIDDY’S SEAT

October 20, 2016
INTERESTING to see outspoken Cork business consultant Alf Smiddy added to the board of... Read more »

THE PROPAGANDA WAR WITH PUTIN

August 10, 2016
Hilary Clinton Vladimir Putin by Renee Parsons IF IT HAD NOT already been apparent,... Read more »

MUHAMMAD ALI’S FIGHT AGAINST RACISM AND WAR

June 17, 2016
A FORTNIGHT last Friday marked the death of arguably the greatest and most beloved... Read more »

PAPAL POLITICS AND IRISH VISIT

June 1, 2016
A SUCCESSFUL visit to Dublin by Pope Francis in August 2018 will depend on... Read more »

THE END OF GLOBALISATION?

June 1, 2016
by MURRAY DOBBIN AT the height of the battle over the Canada-US Free Trade... Read more »

HILLARY CLINTON’S NEOCON PROBLEM

April 21, 2016
by Gerald Sussman HILLARY Clinton has a dark history in foreign policy. She is... Read more »

THE PROBLEMS WITH THE KARADŽIĆ VERDICT

April 7, 2016
by BINOY KAMPMARK THE uneven distribution of justice is the bane of any system... Read more »

DONALD TRUMP’S MEDIA REGIME

March 24, 2016
By David Crisp DONALD Trump’s most recent assault on the First Amendment came in... Read more »

TRUMP AND PALIN by ROBERT FANTINA

January 28, 2016
WITH a mere ten months to go before some small percentage of eligible United... Read more »

DONALD TRUMP: THE POLITICS OF HATE

December 17, 2015
By Robert Fantina AS the three-ring circus known as the US presidential campaign plods... Read more »