By Micaela Constantini * On November 23, the agreement was ratified between the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Ministry of Defense, on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Kosovo, for the deployment of personnel from the Security Forces of Kosovo (KSF) to the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands to the ...
Great Britain rose to the status of monetary hegemon in 1871 with widespread adoption of the gold standard. During the gold standard of the late nineteenth century, Britain became the greatest exporter of financial capital. Its capital city, London, also became center of the world gold, money, and financial markets. The end of World War II witnessed the recentralization of ...
By Craig Murray * All Empires end in ignominy. The United Kingdom is drawing to a close, not with a bang but with a fart. A century from now, the dominant historical narrative will be Chinese, and Chinese historians will puzzle over how Boris Johnson fell over a lie about what he knew of sexual harassment by a very junior ...
The Second World War broke out because of the unsolvable contradictions in the global capitalist system, for the sake of the interests of the dominant classes. In this sense, the war was inevitable as a part of the capitalist system’s evolution towards the globalist domination of the financiers. This does not mean, however, that we cannot separate events being the ...
The Black Sea increasingly stands out as one of the global regions of tension. Following the colored revolution in the Ukraine and the cessation of Crimea to the Russian Federation, NATO has decided to increase its presence since 2014 in the Black Sea. The British government declared in its Integrated Review the Black Sea as one of the main field ...
NATO and its allies have started the military exercise See Breeze 21 in the Black Sea on Monday, June 28th. The exercise, co-hosted by the US and Ukrainian navies, takes place amidst rising political and military tensions between western countries and Russia. NATO stated that 32 countries will take part in the exercise, providing 5,000 troops, 32 ships and 40 ...
By Craig Murray Historian, former British Ambassador, human rights activist Boris Johnson sees himself as the heritor of a world bestriding Imperial mantle, but in truth he cannot bestride the Irish Sea. The overshadowing of the G7 summit by his peculiar concern that Irish sausages should not be eaten by those in Northern Ireland who do not believe in evolution, ...
The notion of ‘Global Britain’ has emerged roughly 20 years ago and became since then the UK’s official government slogan, widely used by the Prime Ministers Cameron, May and Johnson. The concept aims to define the UK’s new role in international politics and its domestic adjustment. “Global Britain” follows the “Realist School” of International Relations Theory, emphasizing the anarchic nature ...