EU Vacillating Jamaica Demonstrating
by Peter Polack Recent developments in Jamaica suggest that country is awash in corruption, not to mention crime and human rights abuses. It includes a prime minister who has not had his disputed asset declarations published for three years, six…
UK Post Office Scandal: Innocence is no Defence
By Peter Polack The recent U.K. Post Office scandal suggests that controversy may have cornered the market on rank injustice. However far that be from reality given the continuous work of appeal courts to rectify failings of judges, prosecutors and…
Innocence is no Defence- Gaza and others
by Peter Polack Peter Polack A familiar term to defence attorneys in a criminal trial with protracted incarceration before a verdict by the court or unwilling prosecution decision not to proceed has greater application to the wider world. When leaders…
The Iranian Whac-A-Moles: Houthis, Hezbollah and Hamas
by Peter Polack Mole is hit with a toy hammer.- iStock The popular game in the West of Whac-A-Mole where strikes on a target result in more and similar targets are best described as a version of the Greek tale,…
EU: The Iron Wall
by Peter Polack The many political uses of the word iron in curtain or dome should take on the most recent iteration for the European Union or Iron Wall. Perhaps this group is best encapsulated in Henry the Fifth by…
Hidden Truth: Caribbean soldier executions in the First World War by Peter Polack
Seventeen year old Herbert Morris a Jamaican from Riversdale in the parish if St. Catherine was executed on 20 September 1917 behind a church in Poperinge, Belgium. He was one of thousands of West Indian volunteers who travelled thousands of…
Russian Fires: Is arson the new IED?
By Peter Polack The imperialist ambitions of Russia under the cover of state media and restricted information have been beset by the exposure of a string of seemingly unconnected fires. A state defence research facility, major chemical factory, fuel depots,…
EU Today Russian Prisoners of War: Angola, Afghanistan, Ukraine
The early Russian support of the now continuous MPLA government during the Angolan Civil War in the seventies moved from logistical support to strategy to battlefield leadership in 1987, writes Peter Polack. The subsequent misconceived, Soviet advised, attack across the…
Putin: Beware the Ides of March, warns Peter Polack
March has historically been a bad time for despots, the world over. In the Shakespeare play Julius Caesar, a soothsayer warned Caesar to beware the Ides of March shortly before he was stabbed to death by a group of conspirators…
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Peter Polack: 5,000 Days on Bail book excerpt
By Peter Polack The day we first went to court my left hand started to shake so much I put it in my pocket like some half-Napoleon posture. It was not the first time this had happened but I feared…
