Politicians have it in their DNA to hype our supposed present dangers. So do journalists. So does the military-industrial complex.

The announcement was just made by Japan’s Finance Ministry: In the last quarter of the year, the Japanese economy grew at an annualised rate of 0.2 per cent.“One wonders if the economy will remain at a standstill for the rest of the year,” the Financial Times said.Japan’s economy

Nearly everyone I talk politics to says the world is in a mess.

How far behind the West is China?

The Incirlik Air Base in southeast Turkey — from which US pilots launch bombing raids on Daesh forces in Syria — is home to about 50 B-61 hydrogen bombs.

Europe is under attack from both ends. In the West — Brexit, the referendum to take Britain out of the European Union.

The crime of aggression (“planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression”) was described by the Nuremberg Tribunal that tried Nazi leaders as “the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulate

NATO has just announced a plan to send troops to the alliance’s eastern flank, close to the Russian border.The organisation says it is attempting to deter  potential Russian aggression.The UK, the US, Canada and Germany will lead four battle groups that will be based in Pola

Within a matter of days a self-appointed Daesh “lone wolf”, Omar Mateen, with no actual links to home office Daesh has created mayhem in Orlando, Florida, with his killing of 49 people in a gay club, and the Iraq army has pushed Daesh troops out of most of the important city of F