Author: heathlander

In Turkey yesterday, an ethnic Armenian journalist was gunned down, apparently by a teenager, outside his office in Istanbul. Hrant Dink, editor of the Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, was considered a traitor by many in Turkey...

I’ve just finished watching The Trial of Tony Blair, a “biting feature-length satire” originally broadcast on More4. We join Tony in 2010 as he prepares to leave office, making way for Gordon Brown. President...

In a “major speech” yesterday (transcript), Prime Minister Tony Blair defended his “controversial” foreign policy, insisting that Britain must continue to follow his doctrine of interventionism. A major...

On Thursday, U.S. troops, backed by helicopters, raided an Iranian consulate in the northern Iraqi town of Irbil. The soldiers “detained” six workers and “confiscated” documents and computers. This is,...

This is a thought experiment. Both Israel and the United States have been openly advocating and planning for the use of force to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons for some time now. This is preventive war, and is...