by Michael Walsh WITH ITS staggering $692 billion defence budget the U.S arms industry constitutes 43% of the world’s military expenditure. This is not far behind the value of Britain and Russia’s combined export trade. The financial resources and political clout exercised by this military behemoth 

by Michael Walsh HAVE YOU NOTICED that we don’t hear much about Ukraine these days? Here in the West, the word on the streets is “one never hears of Ukraine now.” In the run-up to the Washington-instigated coup of February 2014, mainstream media were rolling story after story on that country,…