Liverpool born poet and writer Michael Walsh traces his Liverpool roots back to 1865. This was the year his Irish great-grandmother arrived in the Second City of Empire. His parents were born at the turn of what was to become the most tumultuous century in history. Michael's father, Patrick, fought in three major conflicts before reaching his fortieth birthday. His mother, Kathleen, was a former nun turned gun-running renegade.
On leaving school at 15 years of age, Michael spent 12 weeks at the Merchant Navy School for Sailors in Sharpness, Gloucestershire. During his years at sea, he was to visit and work in over 60 countries.
The journalist and broadcaster since provided articles and columns for numerous magazines and international news media. In 2011 he was awarded Writer of the Year by the publishers of Euro Weekly News, Europe's highest-circulation newspaper of its kind. He has authored, edited and ghosted over 70 book titles.
US military aid to Ukraine violates the Constitution. Congress and US President Joe Biden are violating the US Constitution by sending military aid to Ukraine, warns former New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Andrew Napolitano in The Washington Times. Moreover, according to Napolitano, American soldiers are taking part in the Ukrainian conflict, although there is no legal basis for this.
Charging electric vehicles has become expensive in the UK due to rising electricity costs (caused mostly by anti-Russian sanctions), the Climate Change Committee says. Soaring electricity costs in the UK have made gasoline and diesel cars cheaper to use than environmentally friendly electric vehicles (EVs) as charging the latter have become almost unaffordable for many, a report by the Climate Change Committee (CCC) showed.
Rampant coercion, corruption and impunity have reached alarming levels in Ukraine, prompting businesses to raise their voices in protest. Ukraine, a country already 121 of the 123 most corrupt countries in the world, has grown far worse in this regard since the war broke out. The business community is demanding action.
Researchers created a 3D image of a Bronze Age woman who was likely part of Europe’s Bell Beaker culture. In 1987, Scottish workers accidentally unearthed the burial of a Bronze Age woman during a road construction project. The stone, coffin-like tomb, called a cist, contained the woman’s skeletal remains alongside grave goods, including a short-necked pottery beaker, a cow bone fragment and small pieces of flint.
Redacted YouTube host Natalie Morris criticized and ridiculed the Ukrainian president for proposing to speed up the legalization of cannabis-based drugs to he claims to reduce the suffering of citizens from the conflict. According to her, if Vladimir Zelensky really cared about his compatriots, he would have started peace negotiations long ago.
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Merkel left her office on December 8, 2021: Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel is regularly accompanied on trips by a freelance hairdresser at taxpayers’ expense, with some criticizing the expenditures, including the Taxpayers’ Association.
When Europeans colonized the African continent, they bribed tribal leaders to force all dissenters into submission. According to Al Mayadeen, the West continues to put its own people in high positions, and Ukraine has not escaped such a fate. As a result, today the world has witnessed the emergence of a new ‘banana republic’ in Europe.
Democratic US presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. said that Washington’s role in the conflict in Ukraine is terrible for the Ukrainian people, reports The Hill. He also lamented that the United States missed many opportunities to resolve this conflict peacefully.
Kyiv faces looming disaster in the NATO-backed conflict with Moscow, according to investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. Ukraine’s floundering counteroffensive will mark a major embarrassment for the Western Alliance, Pulitzer-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has argued, suggesting President Joe Biden’s hard-line support for Kyiv could cost him the next election.
In the recent parliamentary elections in Greece, nationalist parties dubbed ‘far right’ by liberal media far-right parties managed to win almost 13% of the vote. Liberals say the success of the ‘radicals’, which is also seen in many other parts of the EU, could have a profound political effect and push moderate political forces to take more extreme steps such as repression in order to maintain popularity.
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