Dear readers of Stirring Trouble! Please go to Sky News’ website – skynews.com – and read the webchat section which deals with the US election campaign. Our very own Alexander Nekrassov has been debating on it with former Clinton advisor, Jon-Christopher Buar. It’s fun, but it won’t last long, as the webchat page will be renewed tomorrow at 4 pm. And check out skynews.com in general. It’s a good website. Totally different from ours, of course, but with very [...]

By Martin McCauley:  It would probably surprise many readers to learn that China now regards itself as a big player in… Antarctica. The icebreaker and research boat Xue Long (Snow Dragon) left Shanghai on October 25 for a six-month stint in the waters surrounding the sixth continent. The objective is to set up China’s first inland research station, the Kunlun Station. The station will be located on the Antarctic icecap itself. The other two Chinese stations are on the periphery [...]

[flv w=420 h=340]http://www.stirringtroubleinternationally.com/video/nekrassovskyinterview.flv[/flv] I have been contributing to Sky News for the last fifteen years at least. It is one of the best TV news channels and has some of top professionals working for it. It is always a pleasure to appear on Sky News, not least because they always pay freelance journalists, unlike the BBC, for example, which only pays lots of money to thugs like Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand, and other disgusting characters. The only thing that [...]

We have received a lot of comments regarding my article about Internet and PC gamers that was written in the form of an open letter and dedicated to my son, Alex. It appears that many of our readers feel strongly on the subject and some were even genuinely offended by my suggestion that playing PC games for hours often amounts to a waste of time.The most amusing commentary came from one of my son’s friends, Al, who wrote that, obviously, [...]

As I’m taking part in a debate today with former Bill Clinton’s advisor on skynews.com (it will start at 16.30 London time), I decided to post one of the comments I’ve written in the past about the presidential race and the chances of the candidates. Especially as I have been predicting correctly some of the things that are happening now, like the alleged plot to assassinate Obama, for example, that has been supposedly foiled two days ago. The article below [...]

(By Thomas Matthew.) I think that Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand, the so-called great comedians, should be allowed to continue presenting their shows on BBC-2 Radio, even after their disgusting prank with calling an old man and leaving offensive messages on his answering machine during a show. And they should be both given a raise. Ross should get another couple of million added to his contract and Brand should be propelled into the top earners league on the BBC by [...]

(By Martin McCauley.) These are heady days in Beijing: a government member has conceded that China faces serious economic problems but, on the bright side, he said, the country has also been presented with the biggest strategic opportunity for nearly 140 years to establish a dominant role on the world stage. So that you know, in 1868 the Chinese economy was the largest in the world. Chinese experts are as divided about the problems and solutions to the present crisis, [...]

Martin McCauley writes: President Hamid Karzai has revealed that he has asked for the support of Saudi Arabia and other states to bring the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan to an end. He wants negotiations with Mullah Muhammad Omar to begin to resolve the conflict that Kabul is now admitting cannot be won militarily.The Mullah’s position is quite clear: Western coalition forces must leave Afghanistan as soon as possible. Just like the Soviet Army had left in 1989. The [...]

The reason why I think that The Spectator – the oldest magazine in Europe – has become unreadable is because Matthew d’Ancona, its current editor, has simply allowed the overall standards of the publication to fall to such depths that it can’t really be taken seriously any more. It has become a joke, and not even an amusing one at that. To be fair to d’Ancona, I have to point out that the rot started under Boris Johnson’s editorship, when [...]

By Martin McCauley: The conflict in Iraq has spread to Syria. According to Syrian sources, on Sunday a helicopter raid by the US, eight miles inside Syrian territory, resulted in the deaths of eight unarmed civilians. Some reports indicated that the target was an Al Qaeda group that was preparing to enter Iraq. Washington has consistently urged Damascus to patrol its borders to prevent terrorist groups using its territory to launch attacks inside Iraq. The raid comes as a surprise, [...]