When Putin stops playing the nice guy

If Western sanctions lead to Russia’s oil exports being completely cut off, the world can expect the international energy market to collapse, a senior figure at the American rating agency Fitch said on Tuesday. Speaking in an interview with Russian news agency TASS, Dmitry Marinchenko explained that the current spike in oil prices would be lessened if there is no further escalation around Ukraine.

The Killing Fields of Africa + Free Download Book

European de-colonisation of Africa is viewed as the price paid for the transfer of power from White to Black rule. The concept of African independence was a massive deception on a par with that of the so-called Russian Revolution, which was nothing of the kind either. Both regime changes transferred power not to the masses but to a global banking and corporate elite. This is easily achieved when the ground is prepared.

Kennedy was assassinated but not by Harvey Oswald

I REST MY CASE is the appropriate term: The 1963 killing of the iconic US president has pored over many times. But one man thinks the truth is in plain sight and irrefutable. Dr Cyril Wecht is no-nonsense, blunt and he never shirks voicing an opinion. When I spoke to him about his new book, ‘The JFK Assassination Dissected,’ I was forewarned that, despite being a nonagenarian, he’s still a formidable presence.

My Four Green Fields

Four Green Fields is a 1967 folk poem and song by Irish musician Tommy Makem, described as a hallowed Irish leave-us-alone-with-our-beauty ballad. Of Makem’s many compositions, it has become the most familiar and is part of the common repertoire of Irish folk musicians.