#About the organization >> The CROWN where global issues are extensively discussed and fiercely debated from both sides of the argument — by one person.
2. #10 Years After: Britain Today >>ON MARCH 20th 2003
Britons woke to footage of fireballs over Baghdad. The first
cruise missiles, launched from American ships in the
Persian Gulf, had hit the city some five hours before. Tony
Blair, the prime minister, addressed the nation: “The
threat to Britain today is not that of my father’s
generation. War between the big powers is unlikely.
Europe is at peace. The Cold War already a memory. But
this new world faces a new threat: of disorder and chaos
born either of brutal states like Iraq, armed with weapons
of mass destruction, or of extreme terrorist groups. Both
hate our way of life, our freedom, our democracy.” The
ensuing chaos overshadows the idealism of that 1999-
2003 era: thousands of Iraqis dead, 179 British service
personnel killed, £9 billion spent. Ten years on, the
country is now free—an elegant, circular parliament,
designed by London-based architects, will soon rise from
the rubble of the al-Muhanna airport—but it remains
violent and divided. The number of Iraqis living in Britain
has jumped from 32,000 in 2001 to some 250,000 today
(according to the British Iraqi Association)—a measure of
the mass emigration provoked by the war. Baghdad has
decamped to Wood Green, Finsbury Park and Ealing…
3. #About the organization >> The CROWN where global issues are extensively discussed
and fiercely debated from both sides of the argument — by one person.
The writer - Nolan is a The Backstory - Nolan started writing his Aims - His
great enthusiast of opinions on timely issues in a journal inclination in
international relations, that gradually turned into newspaper sharing his insights
rooting from his contributions. It was then he and analysis of
extensive exposure in decided that nothing could be better global concerns is
global journalism. He than having his own website where he is what strongly
believes that instead of free to fool around express his self- motivated him in
the limited context, and declared intellectual opinion pieces to creating The
sometimes just plain his heart’s content. Armed with his CROWN — aside
hostile views, presented frustration of the mainstream media from the fact that
by the popular news voice, Nolan took it into his head to he wants to correct
providers, it is more make his own venue for discussing not the
important to understand only the hot topics but also the more misrepresentation
the underlying relevant but eclipsed-in-mainstream- and bias done by
management issues by media news. (One of these days he mainstream media
knowing the whole story might actually get the pressure to write on a regular basis.
or presenting both sides a more detailed and eloquent history of
of the story. how this site came to be. But until then,
suit yourself with this summary.)
