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Have you ever wondered why Blair Howard and Bush have ALL written their "autobiography"?... One could suspect a collusion. And there is. It is a well orchestrated way to frame the debate about the Iraq war in a sea of other titillating subjects — including the foetus of George W Bushs unborn sibling his mother kept in a pickle jar or the sexual celebration of Blairs political victory, with Cherie. Like in a well tuned orchestra, Blair, Howard and Bush, all play an Iraq tune, with counterpoint...

Population 2million. North Macedonia is locked between 5 countries – Kosovo and Serbia on the north, Bulgaria on the east, Greece on the south, and Albania on the west. Its independent history is just 30 years having split from Yugoslavia in 1991. 66% are Christians and 33% Muslims. OHCHR report on New Macedonia is nothing for the country to boast of either. 900 inmates without identification cards, limited judicial independence, politicization of the judicial oversight body, 112 persons (26 ...

Former President Donald Trump stands at Mount Rushmore National Memorial, near Keystone, South Dakota on July 3, 2020 [File: AP Photo/Alex Brandon] As with many other acts of his administration, former US President Donald Trump broke the mould by answering the radical right’s call for whitewashing American history and establishing the 1776 Commission. Its declared purpose was to “enable a rising generation to understand the history and principles of the founding of the United States in 1776...

SLR: Corruption may have a different accent in other countries but the rot smells the same South Africans are consumed by the country’s fight against corruption and the disgusting rot it uncovers almost daily. Even as we battle Covid-19, certain individuals see fit to plot and steal. This deep infection has been killing the country slowly for decades. Angry citizens seem to think that this sickness is unique to our nation. Simon Lincoln Reader unwraps some of the festering corruption where he...

As the famous quote — commonly attributed to US writer Mark Twain — goes: “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.” It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that while the case for the 2003 Iraq war has been largely discredited, an unnerving amount of propaganda spread by the US and UK governments at the time still has some purchase today. For example, Gerd Nonneman, Professor of International Relations and Gulf Studies at Georgetown Universit...