Eyewitness: Crawling out…from under a rock?
Well, surely no one REALLY thought Raphael Trotman would’ve disappeared into the sunset after his “negotiation” of the worse oil contract in the world,...
EYEWITNESS: Local… politics
Burnham was a fella full of ideas. He was full of a lot of other stuff – like the kind into which Rodney said...
Eyewitness: Behind the war…is the mindset
Even before Putin invaded, your Eyewitness has been trying to make you, dear readers, understand the dynamics behind the war. This ain’t something that...
Eyewitness: Permanent interests…against Russia
Some folks may be wondering why all this US attention on Russia invading Ukraine when, for the last few years, they’d pivoted against China...
Eyewitness: Siege…of Kyiv
For centuries, Russia and the nations of Eastern Europe have resented their reputation as being “backward”. As your Eyewitness has written, this resentment is...
Eyewitness: War…or no war?
At each stage of history, your Eyewitness is pretty sure the folks then around felt they were quite “civilised”. And were better than those...
Eyewitness: War by other means…via “civil society”?
Carl von Clausewitz was a 19th-century Prussian military strategist whose masterpiece, “On War” is still studied in every military academy in the world, including...
Eyewitness: War…and lessons for us
Your Eyewitness always heard that “war is hell”. He’s pretty certain this was a message heard all across the globe. When one learns about...
Eyewitness: Republican …co-op socialist failure
The war up in Europe has – not surprisingly – commandeered our conversations. And as your Eyewitness has been pointing out, why not? If...
Eyewitness: War moves…in Europe
Your Eyewitness wondered what he’d be writing about today as he scoured the dailies and the online newsfeeds – like he does every day....