It’s been interesting watching the French elections in the last few months. The media celebrated when Emmanuel Macron won but failed to mention that the gap between him and Marine Le Pen had shortened and then panicked when Le Pen’s National Rally made huge gains in the National
Way back in 2015, Foreign Policy magazine dubbed the Obama administration’s foreign policy, “Operation Charlie Foxtrot”. By which it meant that Barack Obama’s “strategic incoherence” was a “cluster-fuck” of “bad choices, mismanagement, and faulty diplomacy”. G. W. Bush was bad enough, the august publication wrote, but Obama was,
David Thunder mercatornet.com Can democratic institutions recover from the excesses of pandemic policies, which uncritically aped the extreme and counter-productive interventions of the Chinese Communist Party, unleashing a cascade of collateral harms in their wake, from an escalation in mental health illnesses to untreated cancers, an educational deficit, and
Has Vladimir Putin killed “Net Zero”? European nations were warned years ago by Donald Trump that they had set themselves on a course for disaster with their energy policies. Germany was easily the worst offender: its foolishly virtue-signalling “Energiewende”, coupled with Angela Merkel’s knee-jerk decision to close down its
Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com Information Opinion Congratulations to Ted Dwyer in “Spectator Australia” (25/6/22) for asking why Australia has bet the house on the US/NATO adventurism in Ukraine. There are few innocent parties in Ukraine today – an undeclared civil war has been simmering for this whole century.
Robert G. Patman, University of Otago Professor Robert G. Patman teaches International Relations at the University of Otago. He served as an editor for the scholarly journal International Studies Perspectives (2010 – 14) and Head of the Department of Politics (2013 – 16). Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s acceptance of an invitation
Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom,
There seems to be a strangely masochistic pathology afflicting much of the West. Every enormity of Islamic violence inspires a rush to positively coddle Muslims against an imaginary “backlash”. The white, Christian targets of Muslim terror are sternly admonished to shut up about all those bodies torn to pieces by
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government and I’m here to help. Ronald Reagan The word resilience is everywhere on socialist sites. It’s certainly being used at the World Economic Forum (WEF). The WEF has a 20-page White Paper titled The
CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org C. J. Hopkins is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and political satirist. Warning Long read. 1378 words. So, the government of New Normal Germany is contemplating forcing everyone to wear medical-looking masks in public from October to Easter on a permanent basis. Seriously, the fanatical New Normal
Anyone who’s read me for any length of time is probably aware that Pope Francis is not exactly one of my favourite people. Like too many mainstream Christian figures, he’s a weak, wet, woke bandwagon-jumper on any fashionable lefty cause. But even a busted cuckoo clock can occasionally
Duggan Flanakin cfact.org Duggan Flanakin is the Director of Policy Research at 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.
Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and 10 books in five languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
While nations like Australia and the US dole out citizenship like a groomer handing out sweets at a Pride parade, other European nations are not so inclined to reward the indigent and the country-shoppers. Switzerland places strict requirements on citizenship, including up to 12 years’ residence and satisfying multiple levels
Vijay Raj Jayaraj cfact.org Vijay Jayaraj (M.Sc., Environmental Science, University of East Anglia, England), is an Environmental Researcher based in New Delhi, India. He served as a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of British Columbia, Canada and has worked in the fields of Conservation, Climate change and
