With its short-sighted policies, President Joe Biden’s administration has left the United States more vulnerable to the effects of international conflicts and changes in oil prices, former US congressional staffer Brandon Weichert writes in 19FortyFive. WE ARE A READER SUPPORTED PUBLICATION keyboardcosmetics@gmail.com According to Weichert, if the White […]
MICHAEL WALSH Music Correspondent. Franz Lehár (1870 passed on October 24, 1948) was the son of the marching band chief of the 50th infantry regiment of the Austro-Hungarian army Franz Lehár (1838-1898) and Christine Neubrand (1849-1906). His mother tongue is Hungarian. German being the language of the army, […]
‘The EU in the worst sense of the word is very much the new USSR.’ Komsomol Pravda journalist Zahar Prilepin. ‘Why is the EU trying to recreate the USSR?’ Mikhail Gorbachev former leader of the Soviet Union. Brussels is a bad parody of the Soviet Union and Hungary […]
Arm yourself. Legally, urges the ex-Slovenian prime minister to tell citizens to purchase weapons after the rise in terror attacks across Europe. The former leader slammed the current administration for its failure to control the flood of migrants crossing Slovenia’s border. Former Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša has […]
War veterans welcome the respect that comes with their having been a member of the armed forces. This is a normal human trait but chances are they were not volunteers. Young conscripts, many of them in their teens, were press-ganged into the armed forces. If there was genuine […]
It is a bit early to be celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day but such is the Irish presence on the world stage it seems every day is an occasion for Irish celebration. Despite being one of the world’s smallest nations the Irish presence punches well above its weight. Ireland […]
The conflict in the Middle East was an ideal opportunity for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to distract Canadians from growing dissatisfaction with his policies, especially the inculcation of wokeism in schools, Canadian journalist David Craden says. According to him, Trudeau previously used the conflict in Ukraine for the same […]
MICHAEL WALSH POET AND AWARD-WINNING WRITER There are two things certain in life so it is said; death and taxes. To this might be added regrets and who better to ask what these misgivings might be than the brave nurses in palliative care. What are deathbed laments of […]
Moscow feels great joy that Washington faces a difficult test. As Asharq Al-Awsat writes, it will test the effectiveness of the US military and political influence throughout the world, since America will need to support two allies at once in two different military conflicts. Some military-political situations play into […]
MICHAEL WALSH MUSIC CORRESPONDENT. When it comes to across-the-board musical talent Spain is giving the rest of Europe a run for its money. There is however one ball it cannot afford to take its eye off; that of the opera ball and its greatest-ever opera star, José Plácido […]
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