Ethnic cleansing and genocide are two distinct things. One can become the other though, if done a certain way. The most recent ethnic cleansing happened only a stone’s throw from Iran, in Nagorno Kar… (View Post)

A good job this is happening in March at the end of the natural gas heating season rather than in November. (View Post)

Shit, HMRC aren’t droning the UAE too are they? (View Post)

Other passive beneficiaries of UAE’s troubles this week: Singapore and Switzerland. (View Post)

I’ve been trying to work out what the internal dynamics in Iran are. It doesn’t seem to be somewhere, so far at least, where there are big splits within the ruling elite. No real evidence of generals… (View Post)