Israel Upgrades Tank-APC As Middle East Becomes Military Laboratory
Though the dictatorial regime of Bashar al-Assad supposedly entered the Syrian civil war with some 5000 tanks, mainly of RussianContinue Reading
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Britain’s Brexit-Born Indifference And Antipathy To Peace In Ireland
There is a somewhat pessimistic belief among some Irish revolutionary republicans which can be best summed up as follows: “WhenContinue Reading
The War In Afghanistan Is Lost. So Why Is The US Still Fighting It?
It is a rare thing for a conventional army to admit its military mistakes; to acknowledge that its plans, strategiesContinue Reading
The Torture Of Suspected Insurgents By The US And The UK
Two related stories about torture or more specifically the clinical nature of physical and psychological abuse when practiced by mature,Continue Reading
Donald Trump Contemplates An Army Of Western Mercenaries To Wage War In Afghanistan
The journalist and veteran of Middle East diplomacy Alon Ben-Meir has an opinion piece in the Japan Times under theContinue Reading
The Bronze Age Battlefield Site Of Tollense, Northern Germany
In an article last year I highlighting some new research into the suspected Bronze Age battlefield site of Tollense, a riverContinue Reading
The Unconstitutional Pro-Treaty Faction Of The Irish Civil War
By the start of June of 1922, Michael Collins, Arthur Griffith and Richard Mulcahy had established themselves as the chiefContinue Reading
The INLA Volley At The Funeral Of IRSP Member Barry McMullan
While Sinn Féin has gone to great lengths over the last decade to move away from its armed revolutionary past,Continue Reading
Thirty Years Of Secret Talks And Negotiations Between Britain And The IRA
With the United Kingdom’s right-wing press whipping itself up into a frenzy over the alleged sympathy of Labour Party leaderContinue Reading
The Uneasy Peace In Britain’s Legacy Colony On The Island Of Ireland
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), the United Kingdom’s militarised policing force in the Six Counties, has released its 2016-17 statisticsContinue Reading
The Five-Pointed Star In Irish Republican Iconography, Flags And Symbols
Over the last one hundred years the five-pointed red star has become a well known symbol of communism and some strandsContinue Reading
Alternative Facts In The Irish Times On The 1921 Execution Of An Informer
I rarely pay attention to the mealy-mouthed nostalgia for the ancien régime of British colonial rule which fills the pages of certainContinue Reading
The US Has Spent Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars In Afghanistan
$117 billion. That is how much money the United States of America has spent on “rebuilding” efforts in the war-tornContinue Reading
Some More Questions On The Freddie Scappaticci Or Stakeknife Controversy
Further thoughts on the Freddie Scappaticci or Stakeknife affair from a reader who wishes to remain anonymous but who makesContinue Reading
Freddie Scappaticci, StakeKnife And Britain’s Dirty War In Ireland
The more I hear about the Freddie Scappaticci spying or “StakeKnife” affair the more cynical I become. How did the ex-volunteer,Continue Reading
The Republican Network For Unity, Óglaigh Na hÉireann And An Easter Message
As expected the Easter weekend witnessed the usual display of overweight men and women marching in ill-fitting, quasi-military uniforms while professing loyalty toContinue Reading
An Army Humiliated, The British Military In Ireland, Afghanistan And Iraq
In retrospect it seemed inevitable that the Irish Republican Army would emerge largely undefeated from twenty years of conflict with the BritishContinue Reading
Mad Dogs And Englishmen: Brexit Britain Threatens War With Spain
It seems that the empire-nostalgic British have finally gone off the deep-end as right wing commentators – and former governmentContinue Reading
An Undefeated Army, The IRA And The Irish-British Peace Process
I have argued in several recent articles that the United Kingdom’s continued inability to accept the unvarnished history of the Irish-BritishContinue Reading
Irish Resistance To Apartheid: Sinn Féin And The ANC, The IRA And MK
A number of readers have asked for some background details explaining the close relationship between the African National Congress and SinnContinue Reading
Prime Minister Theresa May Supports Clandestine Amnesty For War Crimes In Ireland
In an unprecedented move the prime minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May, has launched a stinging attack on law officials who areContinue Reading
Armed Drones Of The Islamic State In Syria And Iraq
The open-source analysis site, Bellingcat, has published a detailed article on the use of improvised armed drones by the Islamic State (IS) inContinue Reading
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