"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
His last original work was his memoir Hitch-22. It is a literary tour de force written by a man who knows that he is approaching death and was a US bestseller, where it joined his earlier controversial work making the…
All of a sudden the chilling warning of Saint Just looms large over events in Egypt: “Those who make revolution halfway only dig their own graves.” For the sake of the men and women who’ve taken to the streets and…
It has long been axiomatic that revolutions occur when the ruling class cannot continue to rule in the old way and the masses refuse to live in the old way. Events currently taking place throughout the Arab world bear this…
The apoplectic reaction by the US political establishment to the latest Wikileaks dossier has been revelatory in its illustration of an empire in decline, via its increasingly desperate attempts to maintain its reach through a combination of overt military aggression,…
With the arrival of US midterm elections on November 2, any balance sheet drawn up after two years of an Obama administration that swept into office in 2008 on a tidal wave of hope and euphoria will likely be stamped…
There is the strong possibility that the existing fault lines within the Coalition will begin to open up as resistance grows, with more and more Lib Dems and Lib Dem supporters starting to feel decidedly uneasy. Presently, the polls indicate…