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In the summer of 1940, over 300,000 British troops were stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk. Britain was on the verge of collapse as the Nazis carried out their terrifying Blitz, sunk …

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When  23 year old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab failed in his attempt to blow up a plane headed for Detroit on Christmas Day, claims that he obtained his explosives from a contact in …

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If you think of an image of Britain in the first ten years of the 21st century, you may think of the queue of people outside Northern Rock, stretchers carrying the wounded from the …

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One of the famous dissidents in Eastern Europe was Father Jerzy Popieluszko. In 1984, three members of the security police abducted him and dumped his body in the Wloclawek reservoir. 250,000 people attended his …

‘Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran…’ Oh how we laughed at John McCain. ‘There he goes again, singing about bombing Iran’, some said. The idea of military action has been sitting for a while at …

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Tony Blair today admitted that he would have ‘invaded Iraq anyway’, regardless of whether there had been evidence for Weapons of Mass Destruction. Such an admission pretty much closes one part of the …

(c) 2009 Bygon Era
If his West Point speech announcing the Afghanistan ’surge’ was very technical and specific, Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech was the opposite: philosophical and overarching, while providing a fascinating insight into …

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As has been well publicised, it is 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The lessons of the defeat of the Soviet Union are far reaching and more pertinent than ever …

“Iran is not your typical adversary in the military sense. Its available arsenal doesn’t simply include conventional weapons. Rather it is their unprecedented influence in post-Saddam Iraq, their domination of the fragile Afghan economy and their support for Hezbollah in Lebanon that, combined with their nuclear programme, pose such a serious threat to the regional interests of the United States and, perhaps most notably, Israel.”

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Sunday’s coup in Honduras came as a complete surprise but should not have. This is why.
According to press reports, on Sunday troops put President Manuel Zelaya on a plane to Costa Rica, effectively into …

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The Iranian Presidential election, judging by the reaction of the mainstream media across America and Europe, appears to be an open and shut case with the victory of incumbent President Ahmadinejad being widely denounced …

(c) .faramarz
It is difficult to underplay the events in Iran at this moment. There is briefly a glimmer of hope, a flicker of democracy, a veneer of a possible revolution in the air. People are …