The background of the Russian-Ukraine Conflict… and Oceania. Information Opinion By JM White NATO was established during the Cold War in response to the threat posed by the Soviet Union. That threat ended when the Berlin Wall came down 33 years ago, yet the NATO alliance has remained in place
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Remember when the legacy media spent months hooting and jeering at the very suggestion that Donald Trump could be president? Then November 8, 2016 happened — and made Rachel Maddow cry. I don’t know if France has a butch lesbian anchor (Melissa Theuriau is rather fetching, and straight), but it’
CJ Hopkins cjhopkins.substack.com OK, I’ve got some good news and some bad news for you, and some links to some of my recent disinformation, but let’s do the news first. The good news is, April 2 was officially “Freedom Day” in New Normal Germany, which means
Whenever well-off hippy types try to extol the virtues of “organic” farming, it’s worth pointing out that organic farming was the default for nearly all of the past 12,000 years. For all that time, 99.9% of the comparatively tiny human population lived on a monotonous diet of
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments When I heard Ukraine’s President Zelensky arguing for a fundamental overhaul of the United Nations, and especially of
Europe’s green policies are actually funding the Ukraine war. If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more
Capitalist In recent weeks there has been an ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The Russians invaded and the gallant Ukrainian people grabbed guns, knives, baseball bats and probably rolling pins in order to repel the invasion. They put the Froggies circa 1940 to shame. The Ukrainian President, when contacted and told
Aaron Kheriaty brownstone.org Aaron Kheriaty, former Professor of Psychiatry at the UCI School of Medicine and Director, Medical Ethics at UCI Health, is a Senior Scholar of the Brownstone Institute. From the lepers in the Old Testament to the Plague of Justinian in Ancient Rome to the 1918 Spanish
I recently wrote about The Dumbest Things Said about Ukraine. So Far. Unsurprisingly, world-class bozo John Kerry was one of the first out of the blocks, fretting about how the war would affect the climate. But Kerry is far from the dumbest stump in the Biden White House. So it
In perhaps the clearest sign yet that the imminent Australian election is closer than polls suggest, things are getting ugly before it’s even called. PM Scott Morrison hasn’t even been to see the Governor-General and already the low blows are being dealt. Especially the race card. In the
4 April 2022. Since my last report many of my sources have managed to leave Myanmar and are safe in Europe, and mostly the USA. It is becoming apparent that more and more, the global nature of disputes and conflicts is demonstrated in the interconnectivity of reactions and support for
Sippi Azarbaijani Moghaddam University of St Andrews Sippi Azarbaijani-Moghaddam is an Iranian-born British national, Oxford graduate, international consultant and social scientist with 28 years’ experience in conflict and post-conflict settings, notably Afghanistan. Afghan children and teenagers have not had much to look forward to since the Taliban took power in
Despite (or, more likely, because of) its being one of the biggest-selling fiction books in history, literary types have an almost reflexive aversion to The Lord of the Rings. Few of their criticisms make sense, but one of the most perplexing is that it is “simplistic” in its treatment of
JM White Information Opinion During the Cold War America defined standards of ‘rationality’ and then concluded the Soviets would not use nuclear weapons because rational leaders would not do it; otherwise they would be irrational. Using this standard of rationality gives us an idea of why the leaders of western
