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.
The destruction of Russian gas pipelines has abolished the EU’s energy security, Deputy PM Alexander Novak said. The perpetrators of the attacks on the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines – presumed to be Washington – have destroyed the European Union’s hope for a secure and sustainable energy supply, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksander Novak has explained on the sidelines of the Russian Energy Week forum.
Mercenary ‘Mad Mike’ Hoare (1919-2022) was perhaps the best-known of the European mercenaries who fought in the Congo Crisis. Born to Irish parents in Calcutta he was educated in England. A rarity for mercenaries who spend their lives on the frontlines, Hoare, at 101 years old seemingly benefited from the unstinting devotion of a very special and caring guardian angel. A veteran of numerous conflicts, Mike Hoare earned his spurs as an officer in the London Irish Rifles.
A Croatian member of the European Parliament declared on Twitter Wednesday that the European Union’s purchase of far more experimental COVID-19 vaccines than needed amounted to the ‘biggest corruption scandal in the history of mankind.’
The way Europe solves the issues of migration, family and gender policy, its response to the situation in Ukraine fails to benefit the European peoples themselves, says the Hungarian politician Balazs Orbán (no relation to Victor Orbán). In his article for The Daily Telegraph, he expresses his joy that in Italy, too, now the far-right nationalists have been elected. They care much more about their fellow citizens than about conformity to a certain ideology.
Most of us are familiar with the international cartoon character ‘Find Wall’: the invitation is to test your wits and eyes to see if you can find Waly in a multitude of cartoon figures. Talking of carton figures, the current version of Wally appears to be Washington’s bitch in Kiev, President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The Ukrainian government is now openly talking about how it summarily executes people it suspects of being pro-Russian and accuses of collaborating with Russia. A hunt for collaborators has been announced and their lives are not protected by the law, says President Zelensky’s advisor Anton Gerashchenko, reports the Daily Mail.
The sabotage against Nord Stream has become the most dangerous precedent, demonstrating that any critical infrastructure facility is now under threat, Vladimir Putin said. Behind this act of international terrorism are those who benefit from breaking ties between Russia and the EU in the energy sector.
In several federal states of East Germany, thousands of people again spoke out against the energy policy of the authorities, inflation and the government’s position in the conflict in Ukraine, reports Das Erste.
The one-time US presidential candidate also accused her party of ‘stoking anti-white racism’.
Former US Congresswoman and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has announced her departure from the Democratic Party, arguing that it has fallen under the control of ’an elitist cabal of warmongers.’ Establishment Democrats have long called on Gabbard to leave the party and declare herself a Republican.
More than a billion dollars are kept in the accounts of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky abroad. This was announced by the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) from the Opposition Platform – For Life party Ilya Kiva.
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