This deserted village on Achill Island on the west coast of Ireland is a lonely reminder of the most tragic event in Irish history, the contrived population reduction otherwise known as The Great Hunger of the 1840s, The Great Famine, is sometimes referred to as the Irish Holocaust, such is the emotion it evokes.
The Press is keeping silent about the spike in suicides on a scale not experienced since the darkest days of World War II. Throughout the Western world, ordinary people driven to despair are taking their own lives to escape the menace of increasing totalitarianism.
The meeting in Dallas the night before the assassination included: H.L. Hunt, FBI godfather J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon and Lyndon. B. Johnson. The private, some would say clandestine gathering took place at the home of Clint Murchison, the Texas oil tycoon.
January 1973 was an eventful month. It saw both the UK and Ireland joining the EEC, the forerunner to the European Union. In British Occupied Ireland it also saw Loyalist paramilitaries bringing the Northern conflict to the streets of Dublin, where a car bomb exploded in Sackville Place, killing Thomas Douglas and injuring 17 others.
The business of war is profitable. In one year alone, 2011, the 100 largest contractors sold $410 billion in arms and military services. Just 10 of those companies sold over $208 billion.
One undeniable outcome of the pandemic is that the public’s faith in scientific and medical authorities is perhaps at its lowest point in living memory, and no objective observer can truly be surprised.
German newspaper Berliner Zeitung has published a report seeking to answer why an ‘unusually large number of professional and amateur soccer players have collapsed recently.’
I make no apologies for spurning the pomp and pageantry that bull-horns Remembrance Sunday. There is much about the war that knows no political or national boundaries; war is a monument to human frailty, not strength.
Clashes have erupted between police and participants of the annual Million Mask March in London, as anti-Westminster regime demonstrators set off fireworks at police agents and burned an effigy of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Data from the UK Health Agency show that those vaccinated against covid have accounted for 85% of deaths from the virus itself in the past four weeks.
Michael Walsh Stories and Books 
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