It is no surprise to me how the international political class has reacted to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia has always been hated because of the threat it poses to the international order. Since the end of World War II, the West, centred around America, has considered itself the
Here at The BFD we currently have writers based in New Zealand, Australia, Israel, Hong Kong and the UK but we have readers from many other countries. This article is a shout out to writers in other countries asking you to please consider writing an article for The BFD telling
Cynthia Chung strategic-culture.org Cynthia Chung is a lecturer, writer and co-founder and editor of the Rising Tide Foundation (Montreal, Canada). Warning Long Read. 3875 words. Klaus Schwab, the architect of the World Economic Forum (f. 1971), a leading, if not the leading, influencer and funder for what will set
Lawrence W. Reed fee.org Lawrence W. Reed is FEE’s President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). He is author of the 2020 book, Was Jesus a Socialist? as well as Real
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When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pontificated to the world that, “Canada will… stand against authoritarianism”, it was astonishing that he managed to keep a straight face. After all, this was the same PM who, barely a week earlier, was not just arresting and detaining hundreds of Canadian citizens without
The armchair historians and pundits who pullulate the comments sections of the legacy media love to prattle that we are re-living the opening moves of WWII. But, then, they always do. Everybody is You-Know-Who and everything is the curtain-raiser to WWIII. Change the record, people: we’ve heard this idiot
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Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com “The past was green and fuzzy – the future is black and ominous.” Richard Sebrof The green fairy-tale is over. Even the green cheer squad in the bureaucracy and the media can sense the change. The sudden end was signalled by rolling columns of Russian tanks, quickly
As the BFD’s Cam likes to say, we are #ledbydonkeys. The concatenation of failures, fuck-ups and jaw-dropping foolishness that has been our “leadership” over the last three years, who could doubt otherwise? Remember, these are the global elite who believe themselves to be our meritocratic “Guardian” class, envisioned by
What do Jacinda Ardern and Volodymyr Zelensky have in common? They’re both authoritarian frauds who play the legacy and social media like a fiddle, and who’ve put their countries through hell for little to no gain. Jacinda Ardern has signalled that New Zealand’s regime of vaccine mandates
That's great, it starts in the Ukraine, That pays for Hunter’s crack cocaine. Sleepy Joe is not afraid. It's the end of their world as they knew it. And I feel fine. (with apologies to REM) As I wrote for Insight yesterday, the war in
David Ubilava University of Sydney David Ubilava is a Senior Lecturer of Economics at the University of Sydney. His research interests are in commodity markets and price analysis. Russia and Ukraine between them account for almost a quarter of the world’s wheat exports. Russia and Ukraine are also big
Hannah Cox fee.org Hannah Cox is the Content Manager and Brand Ambassador for the Foundation for Economic Education. “My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth.” George Washington wrote that about war in a letter in 1785, and unfortunately, 200 plus years later,
Nicholas Aderinto cfact.org In recent days, the invasion of Russia has been at the forefront of international discussion. Despite the numerous losses, civilian deaths, displacement of people, and Putin’s aggression, the difficulty of demand and supply in the oil business remains one of the critical endpoints of the
