WORLD, FEATURED STORY

Was Michael Hastings, like the fictional reporter Clark Kent in the Action Comics, really Superman in disguise? The world may never know.

The modern world is remarkably blasé and hypocritical when is comes to who gets killed, whether by shooting, by sword, or by other means.

Actors have traditionally valued the roles of playing American presidents on the big and small screens. Much of this is owed to the prestige of the American presidency.

It is hard to escape the notion that we are approaching the edge of some profound historical moment that will have far-reaching, literally life and death consequences, both domestically and internationally.

The Porton Down lab still refuses to say anything that the UK Government can quote as an authority confirming that the Skripals had been poisoned by the Russian Government.

What do Russia, Turkey and Iran have in common? All are on the receiving end of punitive action by the United States over allegations of misbehavior that have not been demonstrated.

The NATO expansion – which the legendary George Kennan presciently warned against in vain – continues to drive the world the closer towards the threat of thermonuclear war.

The idea that Swalwell and his ilk peddle, that what has ended American democracy is ‘the Russians’ instead of America’s own aristocrats, isn’t merely false; it is proven false.

Iran will not be crippled by sanctions, and whatever becomes of Trump's Deal, Israel will find itself in a region in which the locus of politics is drifting towards the alliance of forces who prevailed in the epic struggle over Syria.

In all the years of useless conflict in Afghanistan the western media has never listed the names of Afghan Army soldiers killed in action, because these soldiers don’t matter in the greater scheme of things in which they are but inconsequential pawns.