Right Royal Gang Bang: the grim reality behind the Londonberg Jubilee Rally
By Richard Cottrell Contributing writer for End the Lie London has scarcely seen a frenzy like the royal jubilee celebrations since, well we can say VE Day back in 1945. True, total strangers didn’t indulge in wild sex in the crowded streets (well, not too conspicuously at any rate) yet the same sense of let-it-all-hang-out [...]
What a holy mess: the Vatican sinks into civil war
By Richard Cottrell Contributing writer for End the Lie There are many striking similarities between the former Soviet Kremlin and the Vatican (which has been besieged by even more scandalsthan usual as of late). Consider, for example, the question of organizational bureaucracy. Commissars equal Cardinals. It is easy to swap democracy and freedom preached in [...]
Occupy Europe: the euro collapse is a Goldman Sachs scheme to bag EU banks for a song
By Richard Cottrell Contributing writer for End the Lie Gary Cohn, president and chief operating officer of the Wall Street financial institution Goldman Sachs, has let the cat out of the bag. Even as more than $100 billion flees Spain in a little more than 48 hours, Cohn chimed in to admit that he’s ready [...]
Richard Cottrell’s news dispatch vol. 4: the New World Circus, Greek money-go-round and Bankia woes
By Richard Cottrell Contributing writer for End the Lie Welcome to the New World Circus The French-born IMF managing director Christine Lagarde has been lecturing Greeks to eat their greens and pay their taxes. Asked what Greeks should best do to raise their impoverished country out of misery, she curled a snarling lip and told [...]
Sex: the three letter word destroying the Vatican
By Richard Cottrell Contributing writer for End the Lie As the ship of state veers close to a deadly reef in the teeth of a violent storm, the captain and all his crew are suddenly struck blind. This is an apt simile for the uproar surrounding the extent and gravity of the child abuse scandal [...]
Scandalo Vaticano! What exactly did the butler see?
By Richard Cottrell Contributing writer for End the Lie The Holiest of Holies is anciently accustomed to red hot scandals – just think the Borgias – but by any standards the one that is rocking the sold marble pillars of St. Peter’s right now is not only unique, but might quite possibly mark the funeral [...]
A nation in shock: Italy’s Columbine, the Mafia and the many mysteries
By Richard Cottrell Contributing writer for End the Lie On the morning of Saturday May 19th the devil came to Brindisi, a bustling port city of some 90,000 people perched in the very heel of Italy. Brindisi is an ancient place, one of the most important nerve centers of the Roman Empire. The great super-highway [...]
Warning: Comeback kid Blair returns from the dead
By Richard Cottrell Contributing writer for End the Lie Just when you thought it was safe to take the short cut home through the churchyard after the midnight chimes, the news comes through that Tony Blair has risen from the ranks of the politically dead. The Bomber of Baghdad announces that he is to make [...]
War drums in the Eastern Mediterranean: Turkey and Israel eye the brink
By Richard Cottrell Contributing writer for End the Lie The prospect of a hot war between Israel and Turkey has taken on serious proportions as news emerges that Israel is willing to station troops and civilians on the divided island of Cyprus, ostensibly to protect oil and gas drilling facilities. Editor’s note: There have been [...]
