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January 31, 2023 2:22 am Post a CommentIn November 2019, the website Corruption.net posted a report on a Kurdish company trading as Dynasty Petroleum. Dynasty had begun... View Article
In November 2019, the website Corruption.net posted a report on a Kurdish company trading as Dynasty Petroleum. Dynasty had begun... View Article
At least there was no difficulty in deciding on the subject for today: it could only be the decline and... View Article
So, it’s back to tanks – although this is as much a media story as it is one about the... View Article
It’s not a good idea to draw too many inferences from any one media piece, but I am prepared to... View Article
I thought I’d give “tanks for Ukraine” a break for now, to let the media catch up with the details... View Article
Although we have some of the detail we were missing when I wrote yesterday’s piece, we’re not very much further... View Article
Excitable news articles posted yesterday on diverse media websites, morphing into today’s print stories, suggest a major turning point in... View Article
There can’t have been anyone, not politically aware, who didn’t have good reason to believe as early as 2016 that... View Article
Post-Ramstein, one thing I neglected to mention was that Boris Pistorius promised to commission an audit of Bundeswehr holdings of... View Article
Top off the media bill today is the murky details of Nadhim Zahawi’s tax affairs, a subject I’ve covered before,... View Article
Well, Ramstein camed and wented and the Leopards stayed put – to no-one’s very great surprise. Scholz is not for... View Article
In what seems to have become something of a ritual, for a while now when I am not reporting on... View Article
The thing I find fascinating about military hardware is that it is (usually) the ultimate in functionalism. Thus, the form... View Article
With a busy news schedule and much going on of intertest, I hadn’t intended to return to the Ukraine war... View Article
A troublesome side-effect of the torrent of coverage on the Ukrainian “tanks” story is that it is showing up the... View Article
Of the huge range of issues on the news agenda, day-by-day, I get to cover only a very small fraction... View Article