The War On Terror Has Simply Generated More Terror
From the excellent TomDispatch, this analysis of the so-called “War on Terror” in the Middle East by the United StatesContinue Reading
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Is Donald Trump Being Challenged By The Deep State In The US?
The term “deep state” is often used to describe the core historical institutions of a nation state, especially when they are knownContinue Reading
The UK Throws Two Decades Of Irish-British Peace To The Brexit Winds
It’s a rare thing indeed for the national press in Ireland to express anger at the political misdeeds of the unionistContinue Reading
Dermot Ahern, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Predicts Significant Brexit Border
Here is Dermot Ahern, the former Fianna Fáil TD for Louth and a senior minister in several FF-led governments from 1997Continue Reading
Kellyanne Conway And The Bowling Green Massacre
From across the wide Atlantic its seems that the White House administration of Donald J Trump is stumbling from one duplicitousContinue Reading
The Séamus Ludlow Murder, How Ireland And Britain Conspired In A Cover-Up
Forty-seven year old Séamus Ludlow, a quiet, unassuming life-long bachelor, was something of a man of habit. On the afternoonContinue Reading
Waterboarding And Electric Shock Torture, Britain’s Dirty War In Ireland
Since the effective end of the conflict in the north-east of Ireland, the so-called Irish-British Troubles, a few inquisitive elements ofContinue Reading
An Islamic State Drone Bombs An M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank In Iraq
Talking of the Islamic State (IS), this recent propaganda video released by the group highlights its deployment of improvised drones in theContinue Reading
From Margaret Thatcher And The Valiant UVF, To WebOps And Palestinian Salad
By the late 1960s over four decades had passed since the United Kingdom had given concerted attention to the internal affairs ofContinue Reading
Former British Army Commander Turned Politician, I Was A Torturer In Ireland
Bob Stewart, a Conservative MP in London and a former military commander, has blithely admitted that he acted as “…a kind of aContinue Reading
Latvia Becomes The New Frontline In The Cold War Between NATO And Russia
Since 2014 Russia and NATO have significantly increased their military presence in the Baltics, especially along the Latvian-Russian border. With a largeContinue Reading
Brexit Negotiations Are Driven By Greater England’s Nostalgia For Its Former Empire
Nicholas Boyle of Magdalene College and the University of Cambridge has written a particularly caustic evaluation of Greater England’s continued hegemony overContinue Reading
US Secretary Of State Acknowledges That Israel Is Not A Western Democracy
As regular readers of An Sionnach Fionn know, I am generally sympathetic to Israel and tend to see its historyContinue Reading
Britain’s Acronyms Of Terror – General Frank Kitson And The MRF, SRU And FRU
The British law lecturer and author Adeyinka Makinde has written an interesting piece for the website Global Research, touching upon the early career of Frank Kitson,Continue Reading
Gerry Adams, The Conservative Press And The Brian Stack Controversy
I’m sure most readers are aware of the controversy relating to the death of Brian Stack in September of 1984,Continue Reading
A Name Does Not Grant Legitimacy, Whether It Is Real IRA Or New IRA
The violent death of former “Real IRA” volunteer Aidan O’Driscoll early on Wednesday evening underlines in many ways the dark cloud of rank criminality that hangs over the disparateContinue Reading
A Video Recording Of New IRA Volunteers On Patrol In North Belfast
The counter-insurgency and anti-terrorist laws of Ireland and the United Kingdom are notoriously pervasive, allowing the authorities in both countries to interpret theirContinue Reading
The #NoDAPL Campaign Gains A Major Victory As Drill Work Halted
In the last two hours the United States Army Corps of Engineers has officially announced that it will withhold itsContinue Reading
American Military Veterans Gather At The Sacred Stone Camp, North Dakota
Hilary Beaumont of Vice News reports on the arrival of several hundred US military veterans at the Sacred Stone protestContinue Reading
The RUC, Britain’s Former Police Militia In Ireland, Fatally Injured American Citizen
The Royal Ulster Constabulary, policemen by day, gunmen by night, was formed in the summer of 1922 from the shambolic remains of theContinue Reading
The Daily Beast Reviews The Bobby Sands’ Documentary Through British Eyes
For well over a century it has been the common practice of the American press to employ correspondents from the UnitedContinue Reading
The Battle Of Mosul Becomes Wartainment
The ongoing military contest for the city of Mosul, the formerly populous town in northern Iraq held by the Islamic State since 2014,Continue Reading
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