DOMINIC RAAB EPITOMIZES THE GROSS INCOMPETENCY OF THE TORY CABINET

Posted on January 17, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged authoritarian, Benjamin Netanyahu, bojo, Boris Johnson, cabinet, carl bildt, conservatives, demagogue, Dominic Raab, featured, government, ideology, immigration, incompetence, Iran, Jeremy Hunt, liam fox, NHS, no deal, politics, Priti Patel, privatisation, surveillance, Tories, uk, welfare state.

By Jonathan Lee

It’s easy to forget about Dominic Raab. He has the special ability, endemic to those inhabiting the current Tory cabinet, of being able to adjust his principles and cabinet position with a chamaeleon-like proficiency.

It’s actually hard to remember who does what in the Tory government in general, because there have been so many cabinet shuffles and reshuffles since 2016. The same group of tribalist, Tory chancers have been switched around so many times in recent years, it makes it difficult to hold individuals accountable for the disastrous policies put forward by recent governments.Continue Reading

SLAUGHTER AND MASS DISPLACEMENT IN IDLIB

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged #Save_Idlib, Aleppo, Bashar al-Assad, bombing, bombs, ceasfire, drones, featured, Hama, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Idlib, Iran, islamic relief, israel, Nato, propaganda, putin, raed al-saleh, Russia, saraqib, save idlib, state media, Syria, syria campaign, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, terrorism, turkey, UN, united nations, white helmets.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

“Children and anybody with a free spirit have become terrorists in the eyes of the world.” My Syrian friend and I are discussing the current situation in Idlib. We are both exasperated that the world is standing idly by as thousands of innocent people are murdered or made homeless. Idlib, a governorate in North West Syria, is often portrayed as home exclusively to terrorists and violent Islamist extremists. My friend’s reference to “a free spirit” is his description of the people who participated in the Syrian revolution: those who dared to demand a free and peaceful life including the right to participate in democratic elections and to exercise freedom of speech and assembly without fear of being arbitrarily detained, tortured, executed or otherwise disappeared into the Syrian regime’s nightmarish prison system.Continue Reading

WHAT WE CALL A TERRORIST SHOULD APPLY TO POWERFUL STATES AS WELL

Posted on July 21, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged arrest, Bashar al-Assad, BDS, Diyarbakir, featured, Gaza, human rights, Iran, Iran Revolutionary Guard, israel, Kurd, Kurdistan, occupation, Omar al Bashir, palestine, PKK, racism, refugee, RSF, Saudi Arabia, state terror, state violence, terrorism, Trump, turkey, UAE, war crimes.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

In April of this year, President Trump further demonstrated his ineptitude as world leader, and cemented his status as an intellectually defective moron, by designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. Yes. Trump has designated a sovereign country’s state forces “terrorists” despite his single-handed destruction of the Iranian Nuclear Deal, wholehearted support for Israeli aggression and murder of unarmed Palestinians, and the fact that U.S state forces have unjustifiably slaughtered millions. The pot is definitely calling the kettle black. Continue Reading

THE NUCLEAR STANDOFF

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged china, geopolitics, India, international relations, Iran, missiles, North Korea, nuclear power, nuclear technology, nuclear weapons, oil, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, US.

by Gunnar Eigener

Amid simmering tensions between India and Pakistan, in parallel with the Trump White House determined to sell nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia and Russia’s illegal missile, which effectively ended the INF Treaty, climate change might not be the nail in the coffin; human society might just jump straight into the furnace.

AMERICA’S FADING ROLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Posted on July 5, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Boris Johnson, capitalism, china, Clinton, deal, diplomacy, drugs, economy, featured, foreign policy, France, germany, Hezbollah, international, Iran, israel, JCPOA, john bolton, Lebanon, middle east, money, Netanyahu, North Korea, nuclear, politics, Saudi Arabia, terrorism, Trump, USA, Venezuela, war, weapons.

by Gunnar Eigener

America’s influence in the Middle East is beginning to fray at the edges. This is bad news for both the region and the global community. America has, over the past decade, became something of a pariah in the area. Its foreign policy, already distrusted by enemies and allies alike, has looked increasingly unclear and erratic under the current administration.

While previous Presidents acted with caution and measure, the Trump White House presses on, having found in its new National Security Advisor John Bolton the man who would seemingly give weight to any decision that Donald Trump would be likely to favour, yet is already being rumoured to be behind Trump’s decision to withdraw from the North Korea Summit. Continue Reading

IRAN AND THE ART OF THE DEAL

Posted on May 15, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Boris Johnson, capitalism, Clinton, deal, diplomacy, drugs, economy, featured, foreign policy, France, germany, Hezbollah, international, Iran, israel, JCPOA, Lebanon, middle east, money, Netanyahu, North Korea, nuclear, politics, Saudi Arabia, terrorism, Trump, USA, Venezuela.

by Gunnar Eigener

The US President, Donald Trump, has announced that the US will pull out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran much to the dismay of all those involved and many other countries around the world. The deal was viewed by Trump as ‘the worst deal ever’, possibly an overstatement since Iran surrendered 97% of its enriched uranium stockpile and limited to installing at a maximum 5,060 centrifuges, making the production of a nuclear weapon impossible. Still, time limits were placed on these and other elements of the deal, meaning that in 15 years, Iran could have begun its nuclear programme again. While the JCPOA can, and should, be viewed as a successful deal, it is another example of not dealing with the root cause of the problem, which is the part Iran plays in propping up terrorist organisations and brutal regimes worldwide.Continue Reading

RUSSIA AND THE SYRIAN PROBLEM

Posted on March 2, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Andrei Karlov, Bashar al-Assad, Benjamin Netanyahu, ceasfire, Crimea, daesh, drones, featured, Hezbollah, humanitarian corridor, Iran, israel, Jaysh al-Islam, Nato, propaganda, putin, Russia, state media, Syria, terrorism, Trump, turkey, Ukraine, UN, united nations, withdrawal of US support.

by Gunnar Eigener

Content warning: mentions drone attacks, conflict, and terrorism.

While the US President, Donald Trump, has made it clear that the US presence in Syria was to carry out the extermination of Daesh, Russia’s intentions have always been to support their ally, Bashar al-Assad. Last September the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, made a surprise visit to Syria to announce that Russia had succeeded in its mission. While both might be correct, it is Putin who is in a more difficult position and the risk that Russia will be dragged further in has become ever more likely.

Syria was an opportunity for Putin’s Russia to flex its muscles on the international stage again after creating trouble in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea. Having already interfered in the election in the US and potentially in other elections in Europe, Russia remains largely unchallenged. Sanctions brought about by the US Congress do little to curb the ambitious plans of a nation seeking to relive past glories. Russia continues to forge relations with former satellite states and the lack of US involvement in NATO does nothing to deter the risk of another cold war breaking out in Eastern Europe. Yet, as with so many Western states, Russia has found itself stuck in the political and religious quagmire that is the Middle East.Continue Reading

T IS FOR TERRORISM. T IS FOR TORY.

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged arms deal, complicit, daesh, Democratic Unionist, Democratic Unionist Party, disillusion, DUP, Foreign Office, government, Hamas, intelligence services, IRA, Iran, ISIS, jeremy corbyn, london, lone wolf, manchester, middle east, Northern Ireland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, tech companies, terrorism, The Troubles, theresa may, Troubles, Ulster, Ulster Resistance, US.

by Gunnar Eigener

Content warning: mentions terrorism, The Troubles.

Not only has Theresa May’s snap election gamble backfired spectacularly, but the possibility of a partnership with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has left a sinister stain on the government going forward. Lurid headlines have been a constant feature of the campaign, attacking Jeremy Corbyn and his alleged links to the IRA and Hamas. But now, ironically, it is the current government that has turned to terrorist sympathisers in order to shore up their position. Time will tell if those tabloids will apply the same standard to the government as they did to Jeremy Corbyn.

Within these developments, there are two worrying aspects that have emerged – both nationally and globally. The first is the ease with which governments are able to use the fear of terrorism to further their own agenda. The second is the ability of governments to ignore or cover up their complicit actions.Continue Reading

TRUMPOCALYPSE NOW?

Posted on March 19, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged 1984, AntiChrist, apocalypse, ayatollah khomeini, Brexit, china, dakota, fake news, Iran, Marine Le Pen, nuclear war, nuclear weapons, Orwell, Pauline Hanson, religion, Revelation, The Hadith, theresa may, Trump, Trump inauguration, turkey.

by Faizal Nor Izham

It’s barely two months after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, and things are already starting to look worryingly apocalyptic.

Where do we begin? Shortly after he was instated, one of his first moves resembled an environmental assault, by approving the final permit for the Dakota Access pipeline.Then the promise of building the Mexican wall. The ‘Muslim ban’ came next. And finally, fanning the flames of war with Iran.Continue Reading

ALEPPO: A TRAGEDY WE WON’T LEARN FROM

Posted on December 20, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Abdul Mohsen bin Walid bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, Aleppo, Amnesty International, Bashar al-Assad, Britain, CIA, cold war, Darfur, democracy, ethnic cleansing, human rights, Iran, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, media, media bias, Mujahideen, nationalism, obama, rebels, Russia, Rwanda, Srebrenica, Syria, UN, US.

by Gunnar Eigener

Content warning: mentions genocide, conflict, death.

“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilisation.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

As Aleppo draws its last few timid breaths, the global community sits back and watches as four years of war, suppression and ignorance engulf an ancient city, certain to go down, alongside the likes of Srebrenica, Rwanda and Darfur, as an abject failure of Western governments to fight the oppression of human rights and democracy that they have so carefully and vocally pronounced their desire to protect. Continue Reading

Iran

DOMINIC RAAB EPITOMIZES THE GROSS INCOMPETENCY OF THE TORY CABINET

SLAUGHTER AND MASS DISPLACEMENT IN IDLIB

WHAT WE CALL A TERRORIST SHOULD APPLY TO POWERFUL STATES AS WELL

THE NUCLEAR STANDOFF

AMERICA’S FADING ROLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

IRAN AND THE ART OF THE DEAL

RUSSIA AND THE SYRIAN PROBLEM

T IS FOR TERRORISM. T IS FOR TORY.

TRUMPOCALYPSE NOW?

ALEPPO: A TRAGEDY WE WON’T LEARN FROM

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