PM David Cameron says he's the only real choice the UK has regarding the long promised referendum on EU membership. But, the voters will still have to wait until after the next General Election to have that ballot. And, as we have seen from Tony Blair to the present, un-kept...

One of the main reasons the Nazis were able to seize power in Germany was a growing sense of disorder that high unemployment and national impoverishment were creating. Even today the Germans remain the epitome of order.

Well ordered societies have long been common in northern Europe. And Britain...

There were rumors before the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime that he moved his so called weapons of mass destruction to Syria, a nation not unfriendly to Iraq despite their leaders' religious divides.

If it were so, some of those weapons may have been used in alleged sarin gas attacks...

Just before Easter I wrote a blog on the causes of anti-Semitism as an adjunct to a piece done earlier by Mehdi Hasan. It wasn't particularly controversial. Yet, from most of the comments received one can visualize how some racism spreads through a lack of current events knowledge, revisionist history...

Current Hollywood hottie and A list actor Mila Kunis admits anti-Semitism was the main reason she and her parents left their native Ukraine for the USA some 20-year-ago. The curious aspect of this not so unusual event is that most Jews in that part of Eastern Europe were murdered during...

Water, not settlements, should be President Barrack Obama's concern during his visit to Israel. Why? Because water is the one resource Israel and the West Bank Palestinians have in common with the Jordanians. And it's a project they are working on together.

The monumental Dead Sea Canal project could be...

Britain's post WW2 egalitarianism was visually illustrated by the sight of enormous gray council flat blocks rising amidst the exclusive environs of London's Westminster and Chelsea.

Well, we couldn't have that for long. Margaret Thatcher put a stop to this folly by privatizing the flats allowing tenants to become...

Piers Morgan has threatened to quit America in response to a 90,000-signature petition asking President Obama to deport him over his anti gun ownership stance.

The petition may be as non-serious as Morgan's threat. He can't be deported for speaking out against guns and it's doubtful he would leave the...

At best the Leveson report simply offers a rehash of illegal activities and cozy relationships between the UK print media and public figures. It doesn't make a viable case for government press restrictions.

The end result of the report wasn't so much about the newspaper stories produced but about the...

The latest round of warfare between Israel and Hamas may be over, but the problem and the roots of the problem still remain... the Palestinians are no closer to having their own homeland, Hamas is busy replenishing its now depleted rocket supply and the wider Arab world still refuses to...

America's overture to its Iraq invasion was an intensive bombing campaign nicknamed "shock and awe." Then came the US and UK troops in an eight year-long war that resulted in hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dead and injured.

Yet, at the time there was just as much shock and awe...

Seeing how failure is rewarded in Britain reminds me of the riotous Mel Brooks film The Producers, where accountant Leo Bloom reasoned that under the right circumstances a play could be more profitable as a flop than as a hit.

The fate of the now former BBC Director General George...

President Obama's re-election win wasn't an affirmation of his less than glorious first-term, but more a dislike of the alternative in a nation where choices in elected officials have become fewer and largely dependent on big money.

The main political plus point in the unlikely event of Mitt Romney winning...

The US presidential campaign is nearing an end with a record amount of money being spent mainly to get people to come out and vote.

In a way the American election is similar to the UK's in that no political party had really explained how an economic rebirth will...

So, the fence sitting is over. The special relationship twins (UK and USA) are making their move in backing Syrian rebels with dollars, pounds and weapons. Yes, weapons...It's naive to think that weapons won't be bought or bartered for with western aid.

Foreign Secretary William Hague makes an intelligent case...

Hollywood--There's no place on earth, no one-world leader or government agency that can spin and hype virtually anything as this town can. It's safe to say that much of what the film industry produces or claims must be treated with considerable skepticism. That's why the emotionally laden confessions of infidelity...

It's obvious from the financial chaos and moral vacuum of the past two years that Britain and America share more than a common language. They both have governing bodies that are inefficient, inactive, incompetent and out of touch with the voters and reality.

In case you haven't heard, the combined...

The tragic killing of 17-year-old Florida youth Trayvon Martin has captured America's heart and reignited the debate on racial discrimination, but it hasn't created another push for gun control.

Yet, almost drowned out by rhetoric of civil rights leaders such as Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson has been the plight...

The tragedy in Afghanistan of a US soldier murdering 16 civilians has given President Obama a greater urgency in getting American troops out of that country. Yet, he finds himself in a similar situation as President Nixon during the latter days of the Vietnam War...Securing Peace (leaving) with honour.

With...

An attack by Israel against Iran is not a certainty, by a long shot, which such an action would be. Yet, doing nothing might have serious regional effects, too.

Saudi Arabia is just as worried about a nuclear-armed Iran as Israel, with some high-ranking Saudi officials saying it will seek...