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…
Opinion: An ounce of prevention
By Peter Polack Peter Polack Since 1948 the state of Israel has had several short wars with their neighbors that eventually led to long term rapprochement with most of them. However, this has not been the case with their nearest…
40th Anniversary Grenada Invasion October 2023 – The Grenada Gulag
By 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…
This Day In April: Soviet Spies Worldwide: Country by Country, 1940–1988 Extracts
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…
Jamaican soldiers dying abroad: Raising the limit of military enlistment
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…
