Why has the US blockade on Cuba been lifted?
by Bill Bonnar It will come as a relief to the peoples of the world that Cuba has now been removed from the list of ‘rogue nations sponsoring international terrorism’. ...
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Vietnam’s ‘Great Spring Victory’ over the US – forty years on
Bill Bonnar gives a personal recollection Picture the scene. It is 1am in Moscow on May 1st 1975; 40 years ago. I was an 18 year old on a delegation walking home to my hotel. ...
New Cold War at heart of Ukraine crisis
by Bill Bonnar During the Cuban missile crisis of 1963 the American Government declared that it would never accept enemy nuclear weapons located near its borders nor would it ...
Chilcot: if it looks like a cover up, it probably is a cover up
Bill Bonnar looks at the long running Chilcot Iraq saga If it looks like a cover up and sounds like a cover up it probably is a cover up. The decision to kick the outcome of ...
Democracy under threat in South Korea
by Connor Beaton The Interview’s odyssey from production to release dominated the international news circuit in the run-up to Christmas 2014. This would-be blockbuster’s ...
TTIP: a threat to democracy
by Bill Newman The innocent-sounding US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is currently being prepared behind closed doors by overpaid corporate lawyers ...
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