Michael Burleigh's Blog, page 4

Kim Jong Un: North Korea's posturing boy despot who could blunder into apocalypse

The fact is that dumpy little Kim Jong-un could plunge the world into the biggest crisis since 1962, when Russian engineers on Cuba started building nuclear missiles and almost plunged the world into armageddon.

How typical of the Left to idolise a despot who gloried in attacking America and Britain

The Venezuelan people have been whipped into hysteria by the propaganda of the sinister - and aggressively anti-American - political machine Chavez left behind as his legacy, writes MICHAEL BURLEIGH.

What makes a doctor become a terrorist?

MICHAEL BURLEIGH: An NHS medic has been found fighting with Islamic fanatics in Syria. He's just the
latest in a deeply disturbing trend.

Syria's chemical munitions

MICHAEL BURLEIGH: It is the spiral of violence inside Syria and the inability of the major powers to agree to halt it, that is the real problem, rather than the perennial red herring of WMD, which really are the least of Syria's problems.

In Pakistan, an illiterate child has been jailed for unknowingly burning the Quran. Where are the celebrities protesting for her?

MICHAEL BURLEIGH: Rimsha Masih, a young girl with Down's Syndrome, is currently locked in an insalubrious adult jail.

How British jihadists are causing mayhem in Syria

MICHAEL BURLEIGH: All it takes is a cheap air ticket to Turkey, and then a ride over the border into northern Syria. That is the route being taken by British-based jihadists who are joining the fight against Assad.

Today's strikes by the Egyptian army shows that national security trumps jihadist extremists, which is progress

MICHAEL BURLEIGH: Since the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, the Sinai peninsula - which abuts onto the Gaza Strip in the north - has been Egyptian territory, but demilitarised by both sides.