Tag Archives: Putin

Heads will start to roll

No 1: Larry Summers whose ‘wingman’, he said in an email, was Epstein. (2013 to 2019). Larry Summers had a connection with Jeffrey Epstein that spanned several years, including meetings and communications even after Epstein’s 2008 guilty plea for soliciting … Continue reading

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Globalisation and Gangsterism

The post-Second World War order began to crumble in the first half of the 1980s. Its dissolution followed no obvious pattern, occurring instead as a series of seemingly disparate events: the spectacular rise of the Japanese car industry; communist Hungary’s … Continue reading

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Chekov’s Gun

Another great book I’m reading, which helps me stay sane amongst the lies and false statements flying around social media, is Bob Woodward ‘s book, ‘War’. At the stirrings of the Ukrainian invasion, Woodward reported in his book: “Chekhov’s gun” … Continue reading

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1980s, Dresden, East Germany, Nato

Because of the seeming alignment of the new administration (regime?) of the United States with Russia, I am reading books which help me try to understand how this dramatic situation has evolved. After the war, the US employed German scientists … Continue reading

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