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Persecution Against Scott Ritter Shows US Not Democracy Anymore

12th June 2024 Going Postal 2836 Comments

By Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert. The persecution of political dissidents in the US is becoming commonplace. People who oppose Washington’s aggressive foreign [more…]

20th Century

Report From Kenya, 1955 – Part One

11th June 2024 Going Postal 3184 Comments

In 1955, at the height of the Mau Mau Rebellion, my uncle John Alldridge produced a series of reports from Kenya for the Birmingham Mail and the Manchester Evening News – Jerry F Tactical Force [more…]

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American Journey 1952, Part Four – Atlanta

4th June 2024 Going Postal 3219 Comments

On a chill November night in 1864 a small boy lay trembling behind a rock — not a hundred yards from where I am writing this — and watched a city burn. It was the [more…]

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Remember me when I am gone away…

3rd June 2024 SharpieType301 2927 Comments

Now and again, amidst the bustle of comments that none of us read, we notice that a familiar voice has fallen silent, and we wonder. It isn’t particularly unusual for the folk who frequent this [more…]

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American Journey 1952, Part Three – Washington

28th May 2024 Going Postal 2828 Comments

John Doe is Asking Awkward Questions The last thing I expected to pick up in this capital city of a great Republic (“the greatest Republic on God’s Footstool,” as I heard a Senator from Illinois [more…]

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A Former Ukrainian MP Blew the Whistle on Burisma’s Connections to Terrorism

23rd May 2024 Going Postal 2617 Comments

The dirt that Andrey Derkach shared about Hunter’s Burisma corruption scandal made him an enemy of the American and Ukrainian governments. Former Ukrainian MP Andrey Derkach, who’s reviled by the Biden Administration for sharing dirt [more…]

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American Journey 1952, Part Two – Providence

21st May 2024 Going Postal 2197 Comments

Over the main entrance of Providence City Hall is a bust of one Roger Williams, the founder of this city. You can see another representation of him in Roger Williams Park, where yesterday the youth [more…]

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In The Steps of The First Army, Part Seven

14th May 2024 Going Postal 2337 Comments

“In his seventh and final article JOHN ALLDRIDGE writes of Tunis and the triumphant end of a campaign.” – Manchester Evening News, November 23 1949 Tunis, Monday I thought I saw a ghost in Tunis [more…]

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In The Steps of The First Army, Part Six

7th May 2024 Going Postal 2178 Comments

“In the sixth of his articles John Alldridge writes of Bizerta, where a song was born, an Army vindicated itself, and a gigantic building plan went awry.” – Manchester Evening News, November 22 1949 Bizerta, [more…]

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