Issue 72: 2016 09 22:Two steps forward, One step Back (Neil Tidmarsh)

22 September 2016 Two Steps Forward, One Step Backwards Isis’s opponents shoot themselves in the foot – again. By Neil Tidmarsh Once again, it’s two steps forwards, one step backwards in Syria.  Yet again, external powers involved in the civil war were on the point of burying their differences in the interests of peace, and… Continue reading Issue 72: 2016 09 22:Two steps forward, One step Back (Neil Tidmarsh)

Issue 40:2016 02 11: The UN Right and Wrong Council (Neil Tidmarsh)

11 February 2016 The UN Human Right and Wrong Council Wrong and right in a single week. by Neil Tidmarsh The two reports published by the UN Human Rights Council this week suggest that it is an even stranger beast than previously thought. But then the UN itself is in many ways a rather odd… Continue reading Issue 40:2016 02 11: The UN Right and Wrong Council (Neil Tidmarsh)

Issue 35:2016 01 07: Week in Brief INTERNATIONAL

07 January 2016 Week in Brief: International AFGHANISTAN: A Taliban suicide car bomber murdered two people and wounded fifteen others in an attack on a restaurant in Kabul.  Over thirty people were wounded in two bomb attacks near Kabul airport.  A Taliban attack in Helmand province killed one US soldier and injured two others. AUSTRALIA:… Continue reading Issue 35:2016 01 07: Week in Brief INTERNATIONAL

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