Theodore Dalrymple has observed that any nation earning praise from the Economist is a surer sign than any of its imminent demise. By extension, then, damnation from the same publication must stand as a certainty that a nation is doing something very, very right. In this case, it’s El
Gary Judd Kc garyjuddkc.substack.com Having been involved with the political left in my youth and early adulthood, I had the same thoughts as Thomas More [“It continues to amaze me that ideals we used to think of as espoused by the political left have been abandoned by so-called
Almost 30,000 personnel from New Zealand, Australia, the United States and ten other countries have been taking part in war games in Queensland as part of Exercise Talisman Sabre – though they have been paused due to an Australian military helicopter crash. The Green Party’s defence spokesperson Golriz Ghahraman
Jacob G Hornberger ronpaulinstitute.org I entered Virginia Military Institute as a freshman in 1968. By that time, the Vietnam War was in full swing. During the four years that I was at the school, VMI graduates were among the tens of thousands of US soldiers who were being killed
Ran Porat Affiliate Research Associate, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University. lens.monash.edu Over the weekend, protests in Israel against the government’s controversial judicial overhaul reached boiling point. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets in processions, and businesses, medical and workers’ unions jointly threatened
Dr David Cumin Israel Institute of New Zealand The Israel Institute of New Zealand is an independent think tank dedicated to providing New Zealanders with a better understanding of the State of Israel through accurate analysis, insightful commentary, and effective advocacy. I believe in judging people for their actions, which
Melkulangara Bhadrakumar ronpaulinstitute.org The NATO Summit in Vilnius (July 11-12) signalled that there is absolutely no possibility of talks to settle the Ukraine war in a foreseeable future. The war will only intensify, as the US and its allies still hope to inflict a military defeat on Russia although
Larry C Johnson ronpaulinstitute.org To answer the question in my title you need only look at two numbers – 1) Ukraine’s rank in terms of natural resources and 2) the size of Ukraine’s Army in February 2022. Since the end of World War II the West has viewed
Kenny Stancil commondreams.org Kenny Stancil is a staff writer for Common Dreams. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday condemned Russia’s decision to withdraw from a deal enabling Ukraine to export grain from Black Sea ports—an effort that has significantly lowered global food prices and whose termination
Daniel McAdams ronpaulinstitute.org (Note: This is taken from an exclusive article for RPI Subscribers.) The 2023 NATO Summit at Vilnius, Lithuania, is now but a memory. If I could characterize the summit in just two words, I would say, “reality bites”. And it bites both ways. On the one
Harry Palmer I’ve often read the phrase ‘that’s what they want us to do’ written by commenters in response to suggestions that politicians have gone too far and won’t listen and so are provoking a possible civil war. That phrase suggests that if ‘the authorities’ are looking
Gorana Grgic Senior Lecturer, Department of Government and International Relations and US Studies Centre University of Sydney Since Russia invaded Ukraine last year, NATO meetings and summits have been receiving significantly more attention compared to previous years. And there are several big-ticket items on the agenda at the upcoming summit
The U.S. Banned Farmers From Using a Brain-Harming Pesticide on Food. Why Has It Slowed a Global Ban? by Sharon Lerner ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. On his first day in
Duggan Flanakin Duggan Flanakin is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. cfact.org Reports
Geoffrey Miller Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s geopolitical analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a learner of Arabic and Russian. He is currently working on a PhD on New Zealand’
Harry Palmer It’s a great puzzle, and I’m probably going to go to my grave not knowing how it happened. What’s got me intrigued is how, ever since the 1960s, so many people have become so unquestioning of those elected to run the country for them and
