PRESIDENTS OBAMA AND KARZAI
Last week’s meeting in Washington between Presidents Obama and Karzai brought home to me the hypocrisy of modern day politics and diplomacy. On his own turf Karzai has acted with the same zealousness in his condemnation of America as that psycho idiot from Iran, Ahmadinejad. What has Afghanistan got what we need? Poppies? Bin Laden? [...]
ANOTHER CATASTROPHE: HAITI
Haiti is a country with a troubled past. Colonized by the Spanish twice and by the French once and then becoming a protectorate of the United States in the early 20th Century, this was followed by the Duvalier family dictatorship which lasted until only a few years ago. “Baby Doc” Duvalier as he was known, [...]
OIL PRICES IN FURTHER DECLINE
I would hate to be Mr Putin at the moment or even into the future. With many of his oligarch buddies’ lives in tatters after being previously huge oil speculators and now out of the market, the world (as I have always maintained anyway) is awash with oil and today’s prices are reflecting close to [...]
International Diplomacy – What a JOKE!
I think the United States of America has its head in the clouds when it comes this current administration’s handling of international affairs. Firstly I thought the deal to invade Afghanistan was to root out Bin Laden and here we are seven years later, still no sign of which rat hole he is hiding in [...]





