comments feedBy Peter Polack GRENADA – The island of Grenada is best known worldwide for two things: nutmeg and revolution. Nutmeg has several interesting characteristics which were revealed in the events surrounding the revolution. The sex of the nutmeg cannot be determined until it flowers several years after it is planted, a remarkable similarity to the ideology […]
40th Anniversary Grenada Invasion October 2023 – The Grenada Gulag
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This Day In April: Soviet Spies Worldwide: Country by Country, 1940–1988 Extracts
April 12, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Peter Polack By Peter Polack Forty-seven Soviet personnel were expelled from France on 5 April 1983 for what was described as “a systematic search on French territory for technological and scientific information, particularly in the military area.”. A French Interior Ministry statement noted that the number of Soviet residents in France had increased by about […]
Jamaican soldiers dying abroad: Raising the limit of military enlistment
January 9, 2023 by 1 Comment
Jamaica has usually been conjoined in the media with beaches, reggae and rum but there is a darker side, not reparation for slavery, but the iniquity dub plate. Sons of this tropical paradise, dying in foreign places unknown to most of Jamaica, were driven by employment, education or immigration opportunities to join a foreign military. […]
Why Xinjiang is emerging as the epicenter of the U.S. Cold War on China
April 16, 2021 by Leave a Comment
By Vijay Prashad and Jie Xiong / Globetrotter On March 22, 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken authorizedsanctions against Wang Junzheng, the secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Committee of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), and Chen Mingguo, director of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau (XPSB). These sanctions, Blinken said, have been put […]
The return of the Cold War in the Caribbean
April 23, 2019 by Leave a Comment
By Scott B. MacDonald From Global Americans The Cold War is back in the Caribbean, but this not your father’s Cold War. While many of the actors are the same, the roles and motivations have changed. China has filled the void left by the Soviet Union as the main challenger to U.S. hegemony. Beijing’s goals […]
George HW Bush to lie in state in the US Capitol
December 2, 2018 by Leave a Comment
From BBC The body of former US President George HW Bush is to lie in state next week ahead of a day of national mourning. An arrival ceremony will be held for Bush Snr on Monday evening at the US Capitol. The public will be invited to pay their respects. Bush served as the 41st […]
The US Navy is returning to a Cold War submarine flash point, but the real action may be much farther north
July 22, 2018 by Leave a Comment
By Christopher Woody, From Business Insider The US and its allies are reassessing their naval operations around Europe and in the Atlantic. These changes are driven in large part by intensifying Russian submarine activity. But changing capabilities mean NATO may have to look farther north to establish a deterrent. Units from the USS Harry S. […]
The Trump-Kim Summit was a great photo op, and maybe nothing more
June 17, 2018 by Leave a Comment
By Jonah Shepp From New York Mag The 24-hour, by-the-minute news cycle never fares quite so poorly as it does in an event that is significant to the historical record but that produces very little actual news. The summit meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in Singapore Tuesday morning was […]
Russia vows to retaliate as US, Europe order diplomats out Read Newsmax Article: Russia Vows to Retaliate as US, Europe Order Diplomats Out | Newsmax.com
March 26, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Russia vowed to retaliate in kind for the decisions by the U.S. and 14 of its European allies to expel scores of Moscow’s diplomats in the wake of the nerve-agent attack on a former spy in the U.K. “This unfriendly step by this group of countries won’t pass without impact and we will respond,” Russia’s […]
The doomsday clock hasn’t been this close to midnight since the first H-bomb test
January 29, 2018 by Leave a Comment
By Chris Smith From BGR You might not agree with them, but doomsday experts say we’re the closest to a disaster since 1953. That’s when the first hydrogen bomb was tested, prompting the Doomsday Clock scientists to change the time of the symbolic clock to two minutes to midnight. The clock moved one minute closer […]
