26 July 2010 First, kudos to Britain’s new leadership team of Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. They have embarked on a second Battle of Britain. Britain’s two youthful leaders have launched the biggest political revolution since 1832, one that aims to revive Britain’s battered economy, […]

  Eric S. Margolis   24 May 2010        In history’s first major airborne assault, just after dawn on 10 May, 1940,    71  German paratroopers from Luftwaffe General Kurt Student’s elite 7th Fliegerkorps landed from  ten gliders atop Belgium’s Fort Eben Emael.   Huge, heavily armed,  Eben Emael  was […]

May 10, 2010  LONDON –  Confusion resulting from Britain’s hung election  continues after a weekend of furious negotiations between the three competing parties.   At the time of this writing, no coalition has yet been agreed upon, but a deal is considered imminent.  British parties are not used to forming […]