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Author and journalist. Finian Cunningham has written extensively on international affairs, with articles published in several languages. He is a Master's graduate in Agricultural Chemistry and worked as a scientific editor for the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, England, before pursuing a career in newspaper journalism. He is also a musician and songwriter. For nearly 20 years, he worked as an editor and writer in major news media organisations, including The Mirror, Irish Times and Independent.
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Friday, December 21, 2018
Why Trump's peace signal in Syria could see US clash with Russia in Ukraine The stunned reaction from Democrat and Republican lawmakers, as well as NATO allies, who all deprecated the troop withdrawal plan, shows that Trump is acting impetuously, looking for a political bounce among his supporters, especially after his signature Mexican wall project hitting a funding dead-end in Congress.
Friday, December 21, 2018Why Trump's peace signal in Syria could see US clash with Russia in Ukraine The stunned reaction from Democrat and Republican lawmakers, as well as NATO allies, who all deprecated the troop withdrawal plan, shows that Trump is acting impetuously, looking for a political bounce among his supporters, especially after his signature Mexican wall project hitting a funding dead-end in Congress.
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Sunday, February 19, 2017
Flynn's Head Rolls. Is Trump's Next? Persistently the US media did not give up on the charges against Flynn, which shows that their confidence on the subject was underwritten by intelligence sources. Or put another way, this was an intelligence-led witch-hunt which was based on the illegal disclosure of private information. There seems little doubt that Flynn was set up in a sting operation. The only wonder is that he seemed to walk right into the trap.
Sunday, February 19, 2017Flynn's Head Rolls. Is Trump's Next? Persistently the US media did not give up on the charges against Flynn, which shows that their confidence on the subject was underwritten by intelligence sources. Or put another way, this was an intelligence-led witch-hunt which was based on the illegal disclosure of private information. There seems little doubt that Flynn was set up in a sting operation. The only wonder is that he seemed to walk right into the trap.
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Friday, July 24, 2015
West Flirts With Fascism -- Again "Disloyal Americans" is a dangerously mutable notion. Any citizen who criticizes Washington's foreign militarism, oligarchic economic policy or its increasingly police state practices could be liable for detention without trial. Ineluctably, it seems, Western powers are moving more and more to adopt authoritarian measures against their populations.
Friday, July 24, 2015West Flirts With Fascism -- Again "Disloyal Americans" is a dangerously mutable notion. Any citizen who criticizes Washington's foreign militarism, oligarchic economic policy or its increasingly police state practices could be liable for detention without trial. Ineluctably, it seems, Western powers are moving more and more to adopt authoritarian measures against their populations.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Greece's Downfall and Redemption The reality is that austerity is only driving the Greek economy into further depression and debt. That inevitably means more and more of the Greek people's sovereign rights whittled away to the point of becoming a vassal state dictated to by foreign governments and finance capital.
Tuesday, June 30, 2015Greece's Downfall and Redemption The reality is that austerity is only driving the Greek economy into further depression and debt. That inevitably means more and more of the Greek people's sovereign rights whittled away to the point of becoming a vassal state dictated to by foreign governments and finance capital.
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Friday, June 16, 2017
Britain's Gambling Tories Now Risk Irish Peace Like a crazed gambler who bet the house -- and lost -- Theresa May's Conservative (Tory) government is now doubling down to risk peace in Ireland so that she might cling on to power. May is gambling with peace in Ireland to recoup her disastrous losses.
Friday, June 16, 2017Britain's Gambling Tories Now Risk Irish Peace Like a crazed gambler who bet the house -- and lost -- Theresa May's Conservative (Tory) government is now doubling down to risk peace in Ireland so that she might cling on to power. May is gambling with peace in Ireland to recoup her disastrous losses.
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Thursday, November 30, 2017
Brexit Underscores Case for a United Ireland As Britain stumbles towards its eventual departure from the EU scheduled for March 2019, the historic break raises special problems for Ireland. Northern Ireland, which is under British jurisdiction, will be obliged to follow the Brexit path of quitting the EU, while the Republic of Ireland will of course remain an EU member. That potentially creates the unique scenario of an EU border being imposed on the island.
Thursday, November 30, 2017Brexit Underscores Case for a United Ireland As Britain stumbles towards its eventual departure from the EU scheduled for March 2019, the historic break raises special problems for Ireland. Northern Ireland, which is under British jurisdiction, will be obliged to follow the Brexit path of quitting the EU, while the Republic of Ireland will of course remain an EU member. That potentially creates the unique scenario of an EU border being imposed on the island.
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Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Trump's Talk of Isolating Iran Speaks More to US Global Isolation The American president is in danger of recklessly overplaying his hand. His truculent demands that the rest of the world join in US efforts to isolate Iran economically are likely to backfire badly. Both China and India -- Iran's biggest export markets for its oil industry -- have said they are not going to defer to Trump's sanctions.
Wednesday, August 8, 2018Trump's Talk of Isolating Iran Speaks More to US Global Isolation The American president is in danger of recklessly overplaying his hand. His truculent demands that the rest of the world join in US efforts to isolate Iran economically are likely to backfire badly. Both China and India -- Iran's biggest export markets for its oil industry -- have said they are not going to defer to Trump's sanctions.
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Sunday, September 11, 2016
US Wants Respite, Not Ceasefire in Syria A reasonable conjecture is that the Pentagon and CIA war planners -- Kerry's ultimate bosses -- want a holding and reorganizing position until Hillary Clinton is elected as the new president. Lame-duck Obama has been too much of a ditherer and not sufficiently gung-ho about regime change in Syria. Clinton, on the other hand, has vowed to step up American military intervention in Syria.
Sunday, September 11, 2016US Wants Respite, Not Ceasefire in Syria A reasonable conjecture is that the Pentagon and CIA war planners -- Kerry's ultimate bosses -- want a holding and reorganizing position until Hillary Clinton is elected as the new president. Lame-duck Obama has been too much of a ditherer and not sufficiently gung-ho about regime change in Syria. Clinton, on the other hand, has vowed to step up American military intervention in Syria.
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Sunday, March 27, 2016
Europe's Egocentric Terror Grief Listening to French and British leaders in particular talking about "fighting terrorism" and sympathy for victims is stomach-turning. This is because France, Britain and the European Union as a whole have played a nefarious role in creating the very terrorism that is rebounding on European civilians.
Sunday, March 27, 2016Europe's Egocentric Terror Grief Listening to French and British leaders in particular talking about "fighting terrorism" and sympathy for victims is stomach-turning. This is because France, Britain and the European Union as a whole have played a nefarious role in creating the very terrorism that is rebounding on European civilians.
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Friday, June 12, 2020
Trump's Touted Troop Pullout From Germany Is More Rift Than Gift President Donald Trump's reported order to withdraw nearly 10,000 US troops from bases in Germany has engendered frissons of angst about the future of NATO, the transatlantic relationship, and European security. The most preposterous reaction came from American and European security officials who called the move a "gift to Putin".
Friday, June 12, 2020Trump's Touted Troop Pullout From Germany Is More Rift Than Gift President Donald Trump's reported order to withdraw nearly 10,000 US troops from bases in Germany has engendered frissons of angst about the future of NATO, the transatlantic relationship, and European security. The most preposterous reaction came from American and European security officials who called the move a "gift to Putin".
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Thursday, June 25, 2020
Washington Sailing on Collision Course With China The United States is deploying three of its aircraft carriers simultaneously to patrol the Pacific in what is designed to be a clear threat to China.
Thursday, June 25, 2020Washington Sailing on Collision Course With China The United States is deploying three of its aircraft carriers simultaneously to patrol the Pacific in what is designed to be a clear threat to China.
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Thursday, January 25, 2018
Europe's pandering to Trump risks killing Iran nuclear deal Trump is motivated by an irrational Iranophobia and obsequious kowtowing to the Israeli government. He wants to throttle the JCPOA signed by his predecessor Obama regardless of international legal obligations. Trump's boorish business practice of bullying other parties is evidently working on softening up the Europeans towards his demands.
Thursday, January 25, 2018Europe's pandering to Trump risks killing Iran nuclear deal Trump is motivated by an irrational Iranophobia and obsequious kowtowing to the Israeli government. He wants to throttle the JCPOA signed by his predecessor Obama regardless of international legal obligations. Trump's boorish business practice of bullying other parties is evidently working on softening up the Europeans towards his demands.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Britain's Toxic Agenda for Russian Media Britain seems to be using the latest debacle as a way to further damage European relations with Russia, demanding that Germany and France show "solidarity" by condemning Moscow. This could be related to European energy geopolitics in which London and Washington have a shared interest in sabotaging the soon-to-be-completed Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Europe.
Tuesday, March 13, 2018Britain's Toxic Agenda for Russian Media Britain seems to be using the latest debacle as a way to further damage European relations with Russia, demanding that Germany and France show "solidarity" by condemning Moscow. This could be related to European energy geopolitics in which London and Washington have a shared interest in sabotaging the soon-to-be-completed Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Europe.
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Sunday, January 19, 2020
Cowardly EU Backstabs Iran With the US already well out of the JCPOA and the Europeans undermining it further, it looks like the treaty will inevitably collapse and be discarded. The collapse of this accord which involved years of painstaking negotiations to formulate is entirely due to the bad faith and deceit of the Americans and Europeans.
Sunday, January 19, 2020Cowardly EU Backstabs Iran With the US already well out of the JCPOA and the Europeans undermining it further, it looks like the treaty will inevitably collapse and be discarded. The collapse of this accord which involved years of painstaking negotiations to formulate is entirely due to the bad faith and deceit of the Americans and Europeans.
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Wednesday, September 2, 2015
European Police "Scarier Than ISIS Terrorists" Twenty-five years after the Iron Curtain came down across Europe, a steel razor-wire curtain is going up. This is not the supposedly despotic Soviet Union -- it is in the European Union. The organization that declares human rights to be its foundation and for which it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015European Police "Scarier Than ISIS Terrorists" Twenty-five years after the Iron Curtain came down across Europe, a steel razor-wire curtain is going up. This is not the supposedly despotic Soviet Union -- it is in the European Union. The organization that declares human rights to be its foundation and for which it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012.
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Friday, June 4, 2021
US Spying on EU Lackeys Joe Biden's attempts to rally the transatlantic alliance have just got a punch in the nose after media reports of American spying on European leaders.
Friday, June 4, 2021US Spying on EU Lackeys Joe Biden's attempts to rally the transatlantic alliance have just got a punch in the nose after media reports of American spying on European leaders.
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Monday, April 27, 2020
U.S. Concocting Intel to Frame China for COVID-19 Crisis China's communist leaders have blood on their hands, so say U.S. hawks. Chinaphobes in Congress and a battalion of media pundits are demanding compensation from Beijing for the spiraling death toll and economic destruction incurred by the United States.
Monday, April 27, 2020U.S. Concocting Intel to Frame China for COVID-19 Crisis China's communist leaders have blood on their hands, so say U.S. hawks. Chinaphobes in Congress and a battalion of media pundits are demanding compensation from Beijing for the spiraling death toll and economic destruction incurred by the United States.
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Sunday, June 11, 2017
Corbyn's Labour Triumph Despite UK Election Defeat Against all the odds, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn scored a landmark victory of sorts in the British general election. Under his leadership, he has brought the party back as a major political force with future momentum. Labour under Corbyn has soared with the voters. He has ignited a new political energy across Britain, especially among younger voters, to give socialist ideals a renaissance.
Sunday, June 11, 2017Corbyn's Labour Triumph Despite UK Election Defeat Against all the odds, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn scored a landmark victory of sorts in the British general election. Under his leadership, he has brought the party back as a major political force with future momentum. Labour under Corbyn has soared with the voters. He has ignited a new political energy across Britain, especially among younger voters, to give socialist ideals a renaissance.
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Thursday, July 2, 2015
Greek Crisis Awaits Other NATO Partners In the deluge of Western media reportage on the Greek debt crisis, one key aspect remains strangely hidden. That is, the fact that Greece's debt burden of $320 billion has largely been incurred from decades of exorbitant militarism. Some estimates put at least half of the total Greek debt pile -- more than $150 billion -- down to military spending.
Thursday, July 2, 2015Greek Crisis Awaits Other NATO Partners In the deluge of Western media reportage on the Greek debt crisis, one key aspect remains strangely hidden. That is, the fact that Greece's debt burden of $320 billion has largely been incurred from decades of exorbitant militarism. Some estimates put at least half of the total Greek debt pile -- more than $150 billion -- down to military spending.
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Sunday, August 21, 2016
Western Value... Making a Killing in Yemen The so-called coalition waging war on the Arab region's poorest country received, from the outset, diplomatic and military support from Western governments, even though the legal grounds were highly dubious. Arguably, what is happening to Yemen is out-and-out foreign aggression -- a Nuremberg standard supreme crime -- which Western countries are fully complicit in.
Sunday, August 21, 2016Western Value... Making a Killing in Yemen The so-called coalition waging war on the Arab region's poorest country received, from the outset, diplomatic and military support from Western governments, even though the legal grounds were highly dubious. Arguably, what is happening to Yemen is out-and-out foreign aggression -- a Nuremberg standard supreme crime -- which Western countries are fully complicit in.
