NATO’s welcome bear on August 28, 2017The admirable weekly newspaper The Economist had an article in October ten years ago titled “Putin flexes his muscles.” Then on August 12, 2017 it had a piece on its website titled “Russia’s biggest war game in Europe since the cold war alarms NATO” – but in the print edition on my desk the same […]
Pinches of nuclear salt on September 30, 2009America’s justification for its war on Iraq, announced to the UN Security Council in February 2003, was that “The facts, and Iraq’s behaviour, show that Saddam Hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce more weapons of mass destruction [WMD]. These are not assertions. What we are giving you are facts and conclusions […]