The Marilyn Monroe Doctrine and The International Rules Based Order

BY BRIAN PATRICK BOLGER The ‘Rules Based’ International legal order, that convenient phantom, had its coffin nailed at Nuremburg in 1945. Yet the accepted mainstream news take on Venezuela was that Maduro’s flight of fancy to the US was something crashing the norms of the ordered world of modernity. A usurpation of the decent normalcy of the twentieth century. Please. As Cicero opined “In time … Continue reading The Marilyn Monroe Doctrine and The International Rules Based Order

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International

The Egged Dictator

BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN During the last year we have seen the peoples of various lands cock a snook at ruling elites. In Britain we voted for Brexit and wiped the smiles off the Europhile establishment, who were sure we ordinary working people would not dare upset the Brussels apple cart. The look of shock on the face of Guy Verhofstadt was almost worth David Cameron risking … Continue reading The Egged Dictator

countrysquiremagazineApril 15, 2017April 14, 20172 Comments

Politics

The Tractor

BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN There are family friends who live in Monagas State in Venezuela who, like many other Venezuelans, seized private land as their own during the Mission Zamora land grabs initiated by the late Hugo Chavez in 2001. They managed to claim a plot of eight hectares consisting of fields of maize and some woodland. They built a house on the land and connected … Continue reading The Tractor

countrysquiremagazineFebruary 16, 2017February 16, 20173 Comments