Harold Wilson was willing to defy the U.S. and refused to take us to war in Vietnam. Photograph by Allen Warren, Creative Commons License From an anti-hegemonic, class-conscious perspective in favour of UK sovereignty and European wide solidarity and cooperation, we should have concluded that Europe’s problems are more political…
Category: USA
Americanization
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IRRITATING AMERICAN SPELL CHECKERS
Was Noah Webster right to ‘rationalise’ the spelling of English? by Phil Hall “Now is the time and this the country in which we may expect success in attempting changes to language, science, and government. Let us then seize the present moment and establish a national language as well as…
Stephanie Urdang
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Dear Phil, Sorry for not writing…Trump got in the way
Will Biden get in? By Stephanie Urdang Dear Phil, I haven’t forgotten about your request to write something for Ars Notoria. Your faith in me and my ability to produce something worthwhile is gratifying. But at the moment Trump and his lies and his sheer evil are messing with my…
Politics
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Return the gold to Venezuela
by Francisco Dominguez On July 2nd 2020 British Judge Nigel Teare, with regard to a Central Bank of Venezuela litigation for 31 tons of gold entrusted to the Bank of England to be returned to the Venezuelan state, issued a verdict in favour of ‘interim president” Juan Guaidó. The real…
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
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The 12-Day War of Lies
US B2 bomber, Photo by Phyllis Lilienthal on Pexels.com Were both the US and Iranian attacks merely performative? by James Tweedie So it finally happened: Israel went to war with Iran and the US waded in to back it up. Friday the 13th 2025 was another unlucky day for peace…
Andrés Manuel López Obrador
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Pantomime at the US-Mexico Border
Rio Grande Bend near Boquillas Canyon (Big Bend National Park, TX), photo Glysiak Wikimedia Commons by Phil Hall The cartels are not merely Mexican; they are Amexican. For the cartels, the border is imaginary. They operate on both sides of it, with American and Mexican nationals working together in a sophisticated…
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