Once again, a discussion on immigration is taking place in Europe. For the last few days, the new “populist” government in Italy has refused a berth to a ship called the Aquarius, which is carrying some 630 immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa. Today, Valencia in Spain has said it would accept…
Read MoreAfter our warning last week that Europe needs the U.S. on defence and security more than vice versa, it was encouraging to see a rare article which recognises that truth. Even so, Bruno Tertrais, deputy director of French think tank the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, fails to get it…
Read MoreThe British newspaper The Guardian today reported that the British counter-extremism group Quilliam had just published a line-by-line rebuttal of Fiqh al-Dima (The Jurisprudence of Blood), the key Salafi-jihadist text used by ISIS to justify its ideology and actions. The Guardian quoted the Quilliam report’s claim that There is a…
Read MoreFrench Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has told French radio that U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal was a mistake, adding that the United States should not consider itself as the world’s “economic policeman.” The Europeans, in particular the British, French and Germans, are…
Read MoreChina’s Long-Term Strategy vs The West’s Civil War and Short-Termism While the effectively bankrupt West is tearing itself apart and undermining its society, economy and science, China is not just getting on with it, but forging ahead. A good starting point in understanding what is happening now, with all the…
Read MoreMuch hot air has been expended since President Trump announced on 1 June 2017 that the USA would withdraw from the December 2015 Paris accord. As is often the case, Trump is at least partially right, but in the welter of hype and hysteria, it is easy to overlook the…
Read MoreOn Saturday 22 April 2017, one day before the first round of France’s presidential election, Natalie Nougayrède, a columnist, leader writer and foreign affairs commentator for The Guardian and previously executive editor and managing editor of Le Monde, one of the world’s most respected newspapers, penned an article whose headline…
Read MoreThe BBC today uploaded a video entitled The situation in Syria explained following a suspected chemical weapons attack in the country. In fact, this “explainer” explained virtually nothing about the situation. Our own 2016 analysis is here.
Read MoreThe Guardian today reported on “new research” by the PEW Center that Islam is set to become world’s largest religion by 2075 – data analysis finds population with no religion will shrink while number of Muslims and Christians is expected to grow. As usual with such “forecasts,” neither PEW nor…
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