Exhibit One: Robert Baer, former CIA officer, looks at the the evolving world of organised assassination. Exhibit Two: Professor Kenneth Anderson praises President Obama’s efficient use of Predator strikes in and around Pakistan: … of all the ways it has undertaken to strike directly against terrorists, this administration owns the […]
Malta is a fascinating place for looking at some underlying issues of democracy and government. Malta is 201st in the world’s list of countries by physical size, its area of 316km2 (one fifth the size of Greater London) just ahead of the Maldives and just behind Grenada. Its population […]
More from me (if you can face it) over at Business and Politics. On Iran – who is weak and strong in the Negotiations between Iran/USA/Russia/China: It all boils down to a simple proposition: you don’t win more in any negotiation than your objective strength deserves. In a struggle between […]
Via Drudge, this piece at Big Journalism which claims that the evil excesses of certain Islamist fanatics known as the Af/Pak Haqqani terror network have prompted a violent backlash against them: As Siraj Haqqani moved from village to village, rounding up the sons of poor Muslim families to fight for […]
A good round-up from Michael Ledeen on the moves by the nervous Iran regime to curb protests: One of the most fascinating aspects of the current phase of the Iranian revolution is that many of those arrested knew it was coming, had the opportunity to hide, but chose to go […]
I stopped reading Andrew Sullivan after he started gushing against the Iraq war after gushing so strongly in favour of it. The vile images of the Abu Ghraib abuse of Iraqi prisoners seemed to sway him against the whole enterprise, as if he only then realised that war is a […]
Robert Lucas. Some readers will have heard of him. He won the 1995 Nobel Prize for Economics, in part for pioneering work in the field of ‘rational expectations’: One important implication of Lucas’s work, which was confirmed by Thomas Sargent is that a government that is credible—that is, a government that […]
All eyes on Tony Blair, now giving evidence. A further couple of observations on the deep legal angles, drawing on my own conversations with someone very close to all this. First, the legal arguments finally used by the Attorney General to justify the intervention (drawing on the implicit and explicit […]
Anguished as he is by his belated discovery that FCO Legal Adviser Michael Wood had not ‘stabbed him in the back’ as per the foolish description in his book, Craig Murray slumps back into despair: I felt that Michael had stabbed me in the back by refusing to back me […]
Craig Murray’s vanity knows no bounds. His ‘story’ is soon to be dramatised on the BBC! If I can bear to listen I’ll do so and give you a full and fair review. Meanwhile he launches another misguided missile at the role of the government’s Law Officers. He appears to […]
