“Pathological altruism”, a phrase popularised by the book of the same name, refers to altruism that is taken to an unhealthy extreme, such that either it harms the altruistic person, or their well-intentioned actions cause more harm than good. As the famous proverb puts it, the road to hell is
Although the hapless Neville Chamberlain has borne the historical burden of the disastrous appeasement policy prior to WWII, the reality is that it was an enormously popular policy on nearly all sides. Cheering crowds greeted Chamberlain’s “piece of paper”. Even after the war began, many left-wing groups in particular
Viv Forbes Washpool Qld, Australia The Green Virus is on a rising curve in the Anglo-Sphere. Boris, Biden, Kerry, Trudeau, Arden and Australia’s Morrison are all competing to be the first to destroy all industries reliant on coal, cattle, petrol and diesel. Hydrogen, solar, wind, pumped hydro, bio-fuels, carbon
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.
IINZ israelinstitute.nz Many things changed in 2020 all around the world. However, the disproportionate attack on Israel at the United Nations continued. There were 17 resolutions passed by the General Assembly that singled out the Jewish state, while only 8 other countries were mentioned in 7 other resolutions. Those
It’s shaping up as the biggest communist spy scandal since the Cambridge Five or the communist infiltrations of Hollywood and the US political bureaucracy in the 1930s and 1940s. When academic Clive Hamilton published Silent Invasion: China’s Influence in Australia he was immediately attacked by China sympathisers in
Nationals senator Matt Canavan is not one of the Coalition’s shrinking violets. The former Resources Minister has been quite prepared to take the stick to rent-seeking energy companies and mining billionaires giving free propaganda leg-ups to Chinese communist bullies. Canavan has more recently pushed the federal government to tear
The Chinese Communist Party may have bought the undying loyalty of some politicians and mining magnates, but their trade and diplomatic assault on Australia is rapidly hardening resolve on the home front. And at least some in the business community are trying to do their bit. While Twiggy Forrest sneaks
“Asymmetric warfare” is a well-known concept in international relations – but does it apply in economic warfare as well as military conflict? Asymmetric warfare is war between combatants whose relative military strength, or tactics and strategy differ significantly. Commonly, between professional armies and militias or insurgents. Paradoxically, asymmetric warfare often benefits
When the head of Iran’s terror programs, Qassem Soleimani, a man responsible for hundreds of American deaths as well as thousands (if not millions) more across the Middle East, was assassinated in a targeted drone strike, the left-media reacted predictably. As well as their standard frantic gibbering about “World
