Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Eighty-four years ago, on September 12, 1938, Adolf Hitler marched into the Sudetenland, effectively annihilating the independent nation of Czechoslovakia. Yesterday Vladimir Putin recognised
In a move straight out of a dystopian fiction like V for Vendetta, hackers targeted crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo and published the personal details of every single person who had donated to the Ottawa truckers protest. With scarcely-concealed glee, the Canadian government-funded media set about publicly outing them. The
Information Opinion February 23rd, 2022. As the crisis in Ukraine continues it is worth examining its possible global impact and how it is interlinked with other possible flashpoints. Many years ago, Kissinger influenced the likes of Nixon and Bush with his policy of triangular diplomacy regarding Russia (Soviet Union) and
Truth may be the first casualty of war, but rank hypocrisy is the first side effect. After all, it’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama who also holds the prize for the longest time at war of any US president. It was also Democrat golden idol Hillary Clinton who
Information Opinion February 24th, 2022. As expected, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has started, and reports of major casualties and civilian bloodshed are becoming apparent. As the rest of the world is looking for a response the EU and UK are putting together economic sanctions and supplying additional weaponry to
Well, the Masters of War have wound up their propaganda machine and set it barrelling on, hooting and clanging, all fired up to lure us into one of those foreign wars they missed so much under the Bad Orange Man. “WWIII! The New Hitler! Taking over the world!” You know
Brad Polumbo fee.org Brad Polumbo is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Policy Correspondent at the Foundation for Economic Education. All eyes are on Canada. Our northern neighbor’s crackdown against anti-COVID-19 mandate “Freedom Convoy” protesters continues to escalate. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has even invoked emergency powers.
Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an Editorial Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. On February 8, the popular YouTuber Viva Frei came across a woman in downtown Ottawa with a large picture of her son
Author Marrianne Wiggins claims that, if you read Ernest Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon long enough, “he’ll make you love” bullfighting. Clearly not enough people are reading Hemingway’s paean to the bloodsport. Even in Mexico, surveys indicate that between 60% and 75% of Mexicans want to see
February 20th, 2022. I have hesitated to comment on the crisis involving Ukraine as whatever I say or forecast will probably turn out to be wrong and leave me with egg on my face. However, it is providing a shelter behind which Boris Johnson can hide, shielding him from the
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As tensions rise between Russia and the Ukraine, the question for many of our nations is what, if anything, do we do about it? With two regions of the Ukraine breaking away, and being recognised by the Russian president, war seems all but inevitable. But, is this another Czechoslovakia moment
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young
Has the war for the Ukraine already begun? Shelling along the frontline between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces has intensified. Western leaders are warning that an invasion is imminent. In fact, according to the US and UK, a planned Russian invasion is already under way. The convenient requests for
February 21st, 2022. Observing from afar always allows one a certain measure of detachment but on the other hand, it means that I am not close enough to the “action” to obtain all the data and facts. One thing that seems apparent is that there is a distinct lack of
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