2014 Articles

The abject and total collapse of the Iraqi state led to the slavish obedience of allies to attempt its rescue on behalf of its American leaders who already had abandoned the scene of their [...]

People informed me that in my list of collaborators with the U.S. Rescue Iraq Plan Turkey’s name was missing. I put the matter aside out of respect for my relations with the country, its Osmanli [...]

Now that the drone has become the weapon of war – is it likely that government has become the instrument of the state? * * * * As the U.S.A. fragments into separate bankruptcies – a Republican [...]

For those of us who were taught history at school – we know why independence matters. For those who attended school after history was eliminated from schools must know it was abolished in [...]

I have before me as I write a copy of ‘De Jure Regni apud Scotos’ the great liberating text of George Buchanan defending Scotland’s centuries long insistence that governance was dependent on its [...]

Imran Khan is that comic political figure – the man who never learns. He married the daughter of a mad jewish billionaire thus his son is, in judaic law, a jew. There goes the inheritance! During [...]

Furorne caecus, an rapit vis acrior, an culpa? Responsum date! (Is it blind frenzy that hurries you along, or some stronger force, or is it guilt? Answer my question!) Horace: Epodon VII. 13-14. [...]

The worst result has occurred in the issue of the trial of the men accused of terrorism. The trial was ordered to be held in camera, that meant in private unwitnessed by citizens or media. The [...]

In Britain a legal decision has been taken that represents an absolute severing of the most fundamental element in what has been our boast for eight hundred years. Again and again the governance [...]

The Russian dictator, Putin, who has maintained power by his open mockery of civic society, having manipulated mass election into a servant of dictatorship, now has attacked the heir to the [...]

The age of the Sovereign State is over and with it the aspiration to international law. One cataclysmic world war driven and determined by underclass politicos from 1914-1945, a second Thirty [...]

In 1994 Putin declared: “What happens to ethnic Russians beyond our borders is for us an existential question.” To a ruler inside the frame of law it should, of course, be a political question. [...]

When I entered Islam in the early sixties of last century the Azhari ‘ulama informed me that Zakat was a voluntary charity comprising 2½ percent of my income which was to be given to worthy [...]

At the heart of ‘The Heart of Darkness’, Conrad’s towering masterpiece, Marlow, the author’s narrative voice, recounts the death of the Belgian trader in the remotest of up-river settlements on [...]