In Robert Harris’s 1992 novel, Fatherland, Nazi Germany was never defeated. Instead, triumphant in WWII, it “reformed” – while diligently erasing such inconvenient events like the Holocaust from official memory. Hitler is its revered elder statesman. Preposterous, surely? Except that that’s more or less what has happened with another
Nanaia Mahuta and the “Princess of the Pestilence”, Jacinda Ardern, were quick out of the blocks to condemn a few rowdies and malcontents filing into the Capitol Building and straying on the roped-off pathways. Of course, they’ve been utterly silent about the raid on the Capitol during the Brett
“What’s he building in there? We have a right to know!” – Tom Waits Way back in the halcyon days of 2017, nobody thought to blink an eye or ask any questions when the Chinese communists decided to plonk a massive consulate building right in the middle of Adelaide. SA
Western democracy, on life support for quite some time, finally died this week when supporters of US President Donald Trump “stormed” the Capitol in Washington, DC. We know it is dead, not because of the actions of President Trump or his supporters, but because reaction against them has finally borne
Donald J. Boudreaux www.aier.org Donald J. Boudreaux is a senior fellow with American Institute for Economic Research and with the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University; a Mercatus Center Board Member; and a professor
John Tamny aier.org John Tamny, research fellow of AIER, is editor of RealClearMarkets. His book on current ideological trends is: They Are Both Wrong (AIER, 2019) What better way to begin a review of what is an excellent book than to say that the book’s author always knew.
Zilvinas Silenas fee.org Zilvinas Silenas became President of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in May 2019. He served from 2011-2019 as the President of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI), bringing the organization and its free-market policy reform message to the forefront of Lithuanian public discourse. Nearly a
Chris Sellars I pre-empted the November issue of Time magazine with an article titled. “The Great Global Reset“. World Economic Forum chairman Klaus Schwab’s recently published book is titled. ‘Covid 19 The Great Reset’. The concept of a worldwide takeover and one overarching world government goes back to the
What’s a billion or so between amicis, eh? As previously reported by The BFD, startling revelations late last year showed that millions of dollars were secretly transferred to a company in Melbourne. The money was alleged to have been used to help secure the false conviction of Cardinal George
Joe Biden’s not in the White House yet, but already America’s enemies are jostling to take advantage of what they clearly see as a more easily-bullied new administration. In 2016, Iran tested then-president Obama’s mettle when it seized two US Navy boats and their crews. Obama’s
The one constant in the year and more of the Wuhan plague is: China lied. It’s still lying. Whatever China is hiding about the origins of the Wuhan plague, it has and is doing everything within its power to cover it up. From the very beginning, doctors and scientists
In international relations terms, Australia is strictly what would be called a “middle power”. We’re not among the elite movers and shakers of world events, but we are far from irrelevant. In recent months, Australia has upped its ante from being a middle power to being what is called
A curious thing happened last week: China’s “wolf warriors” suddenly began to sit up and beg. “We hope that the relationship can come back to the right track as early as possible, and we would welcome efforts by all who want the relations to improve to make some efforts,
“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
