In 1953, a CIA outfit, working with MI5 and based at the US embassy in Tehran overthrew the only democratic government Iran has ever had. American and British removal of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh ushered in 20 years of repression at the hands of Mohammad Reza Palavi, in which millions of ordinary people [...]

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A few days ago The Guardian newspaper reported on an MOD study looking at the strategic situation for Britain’s armed forces 30 years down the line. One of its main assumptions, with good reason, is that by then, it will be China and India, rather than the so-called transatlantic ‘anglosphere’ which set the global agenda. [...]

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Regarded by historian Carl Degler as a “revolution” in which “The American people…abandoned, once and for all, the doctrine of laissez faire”[1], the extent to which the New Deal constituted a change, rather than an attempt to protect America’s pre-1929 values from the pressures of the Depression has long been a source of historical controversy.
Considering [...]

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