If Putin was wrong to invade Ukraine, Trump is wrong to invade Iran
The death of Ayatollah Ali Khameini is hardly cause for international lamentation. Since June 1989, Khamenei had led a tyrannical Iranian theocracy which ruthlessly crushed any internal dissent with the gallows, flogging, imprisonment and on-street murder. The rights of women and men have been viciously curtailed by deploying sharia law on all. Apostasy, including religious […]
Ireland has a lot of skin in the game of international politics
A strange aspect of British politics these days is the reaction of the Tory controlled media to the emergence of Nigel Farage and his Reform party. Since he is peddling hard right and populist positions and stances, the Tory right finds it difficult to withhold sneaking regarder respect for his dominant opinion poll position. Tory […]
Do we have to watch this chainsaw-massacre political horror movie to its end?
From the gaudy gold-leafed Oval Office – the centre of international squalor in diplomacy – Donald Trump, the idiot king, pronounced the American equivalent of a fatwa. Directed at the equally loathsome leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran, it warned against the execution of any opposition political figures involved in massive street protests which occurred over […]
The worse Trump behaves, the more room there is for optimism
What is it about the Americans who have inflicted Donald Trump on themselves and their fellow citizens as president? It can’t just be that the Democrats have consistently fielded weak and unappealing candidates for the job. Why the Democrats do that is another story altogether. But Trump – the idiot king – emerged as the candidate of the Republican Party. […]
The ground is increasingly fertile for an Irish Maga
“America is, understandably, sentimentally attached to the European Continent – and, of course, to Britain and Ireland. The character of these countries is also strategically important because we count upon creative, capable, confident, democratic allies to establish conditions of stability and security. We want to work with aligned countries that want to restore their former […]
It’s worth asking again why Sinn Féin sent a delegation to Maduro’s inauguration
Listening to a backbench Tory in the House of Commons arguing in the case of the armed abduction of Nicolás Maduro that “the end justifies the means”, I was reminded of a saying more fashionable in my childhood: “Two wrongs don’t make a right.” As I wrote on December 17th, the recent US national security strategy ought to be read by […]