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 [...]
Gorba the Greek: Glasnost in Athens – or the funeral pyre of democracy?
By Richard Cottrell Contributing writer for End the Lie Historians are likely to recall these interesting times as the tipping point of the fifty-year experiment to bring about a United Europe without firing a shot. As is often the case with climatic disturbances, it is once again the affairs of a rather small country which [...]
Globalists plan to sabotage Greek election: in fact they already have
By Richard Cottrell Contributing writer for End the Lie Greece is a small country of about ten million people, who normally mind their own business and don’t give a lunchtime ouzo for what the rest of the world is doing. Yet here they are slap bang in the eye of the great fiscal storm wracking [...]
The European Union: the long goodbye begins
By Richard Cottrell Contributing writer for End the Lie Most of the talk about the European Crisis spins around the pivot of Greece. This masks the attention that ought to be directed at much bigger problem cases such as Spain and Italy, both of whom are in a much deeper mire than the ten million [...]
