Well, the only thing that consoles me about this year’s grotesque award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay is that the same Prize was awarded to Henry Kissinger and Yasser Arafat. But in some ways this Prize is even worse, for Pillay got it for ““for her efforts to promote peace and international…
Nobel Peace prize goes to Navi Pillay, promoter of the Israeli genocide blood libel
Nobel Peace prize goes to Navi Pillay, promoter of the Israeli genocide blood libel
10 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, regressive left, war against terror
Mamdani booed for his October 7 statement—by supporters of Palestine
09 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, regressive left, war against terror
UPDATE: In what can only be a gesture of anti-Israel defiance, Mamdani ate dinner on October 7 at an ideologically-themed Palestinian restaurant (h/t Wayne): New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani dined at a Palestinian restaurant chain blasted for being “openly genocidal” against Jews on the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in Israel.…
Mamdani booed for his October 7 statement—by supporters of Palestine
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S WARS: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF THE WAR ON TERROR by Peter Bergen
09 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, International law, laws of war, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Afghanistan, Iraq, war against terror
The title of Peter Bergen’s latest book ALL THE PRESIDENT’S WARS: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF THE WAR ON TERROR is a misnomer. The War on Terror did not begin on 9/11 as attacks against American interests took place long before planes flew into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The bombing of the Marine barracks […]
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S WARS: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF THE WAR ON TERROR by Peter Bergen
Why George Orwell was a great writer
03 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in liberalism, war and peace, economics of education, Marxist economics, defence economics
George Orwell is widely regarded as a great writer because he combined unusual clarity of prose with intellectual seriousness, moral urgency and a remarkable ability to turn political ideas into memorable literature. His style is one of the main reasons. Orwell worked hard to make difficult ideas seem simple without making them simplistic. His prose is […]
Why George Orwell was a great writer
Munich: The Agreement That Failed to Preserve Peace
01 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, International law, war and peace Tags: British politics, Nazi Germany, World War II
On 30 September 1938, the leaders of Great Britain, France, Italy and Nazi Germany signed the Munich Agreement, handing the Sudetenland—the predominantly German-speaking border regions of Czechoslovakia—to Adolf Hitler’s Germany. The Czechoslovaks themselves were not parties to the agreement. It was presented as a settlement intended to prevent another European war. British Prime Minister Neville […]
Munich: The Agreement That Failed to Preserve Peace
Natasha Hausdorff on Israel’s “illegal” settlements and “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians
27 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, International law, law and economics, laws of war, property rights, war and peace Tags: Israel, West Bank
UK barrister, international law advocate, and legal director of UK Lawyers for Israel Natasha Hausdorff has argued several times on video why Israeli’s occupation of Area C of the West Bank is neither illegal nor constitutes “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians. Remember, according to the 1995 Oslo II accords, Areas A and B are largely under…
Natasha Hausdorff on Israel’s “illegal” settlements and “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians
Sinn Fein’s Links to PLO, Hamas, ETA and of course, IRA and Other Terrorist Organisations
26 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: war against terror
I have to set this out at the start of this post. None of this has been investigated by me, it has all been done by other journalists. However all of this has been verified by me. All the relevant links are included in the post. It is also noteworthy to mention that I don’t […]
Sinn Fein’s Links to PLO, Hamas, ETA and of course, IRA and Other Terrorist Organisations
The Accidental President by A.J. Baime (2017)
24 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, International law, laws of war, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: World War II
‘No man ever came to the presidency of the United States under more difficult circumstances than does Harry S. Truman.’ (Uncredited Los Angeles Times columnist in April 1945) ‘Those French ought to be taken out and castrated.’ (One of Truman’s shooting-from-the-hip opinions) This is the tenth new book I’ve ordered from Amazon which has arrived […]
The Accidental President by A.J. Baime (2017)
New Rule: Clash of Civilizations | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
20 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, economics of religion, International law, law and economics, laws of war, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: war against terror
Unity Mitford-Hitler’s groupie
18 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: British politics, Nazi Germany
Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford (8 August 1914 – 28 May 1948) was an English socialite best known as a devotee of Adolf Hitler. Both in Britain and Germany, she was a prominent supporter of Nazism and fascism, and formed part of Hitler’s inner circle of friends.Following the declaration of World War II, Mitford attempted suicide in Munich, and was officially allowed safe […]
Unity Mitford-Hitler’s groupie
Thomas Massie Just Filed 8 Articles of Impeachment Against Pete Hegseth
17 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, laws of war, politics - USA, war and peace
The Kentucky congressman says he will force a vote on removing Hegseth, who is accused of “abusing the power of his office to ignore congressional war powers resolutions, to kidnap foreign leaders, and to intimidate critics of the Trump administration.”
Thomas Massie Just Filed 8 Articles of Impeachment Against Pete Hegseth
When Keynes Did Not Win the Nobel Peace Prize
17 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, history of economic thought, war and peace
On rare occasions, the Nobel Peace Prize has been given for work with direct and strong economic implications. For example, I think of the 2006 Prize given to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank for their work on microfinance loans to the poor, or the 1970 prize to Norman Borlaug for his research leading to the Green Revolution…
When Keynes Did Not Win the Nobel Peace Prize
Richard Epstein on property rights, and anticipatory wars too
15 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, International law, law and economics, laws of war, Richard Epstein, war and peace Tags: Israel
The Allocative Cost of War
13 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, defence economics, war and peace Tags: Ukraine
Why is war so economically costly? Our answer is that modern war lowers output not only by destroying productive factors, but also by making the surviving economy work less efficiently. Using uniquely comprehensive firm-level data collected during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, we document a dramatic collapse in allocative productivity in Ukraine. To…
The Allocative Cost of War
9/11 25 years on
12 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: war against terror
I just read this transcript of the call from Todd Beamer on United Airlines Flight 93, and it made me cry. I recall reading it back in 2001, but not since. 9/11 changed the entire world, but it also was about huge personal tragedies for families and friends, and feats of heroism. I also was…
9/11 25 years on
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