Yesterday saw a very interesting spectacle, the Government launching a new climate infrastructure fund, introduced by the crown solicitor in Auckland, Meredith Connell, and in partnership with BlackRock. One of the world’s largest investment companies has committed $2 billion to a fund focused on making New Zealand the first
How did we get here? Back in the ’90s, it seemed like we’d finally solved most of our racial problems. Yet, here we are in the 2020s, mired down in racial division so extreme that it threatens to tear whole nations apart. How did we get here? It’s
Mathew Otieno Mathew Otieno is a Kenyan writer, blogger and dilettante farmer. Until 2022, he was a research communications coordinator at a university in Nairobi, Kenya. He now lives in rural western Kenya, near the shores of Lake Victoria, from where he’s pursuing a career as a full-time
Don Ritter Don Ritter holds a Science Doctorate from MIT and served fourteen years on the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce and Science and Technology Committees. He was a National Academy of Sciences Fellow in the USSR, speaks fluent Russian, and was Ranking Member on the Congressional Helsinki Commission
Alexander Gillespie University of Waikato theconversation.com When Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, German Chancellor Olaf Scholtz proclaimed a “Zeitenwende”, or historical turning point. It resulted in Germany’s first ever official national security strategy. The equivalent wake-up call in New Zealand was the 2019 Christchurch terror attack.
William Schryver ronpaulinstitute.org I have long asserted, and I continue to be convinced, that the US could NOT establish air superiority against Russia, China, nor even Iran — not in a week; not in a year. Never. It simply could not be done. American air power would prove substantially inferior
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-
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
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
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
