When Sultan Erdogan is not busy bombing the Kurds...

HDP Leader Selahattin Demirtas

When President Erdogan is not busy bombing the Kurds, he goes after their democratically elected leader: http://news.am/eng/news/279421.html   

Beyond divisive identity politics

Dallas Scott (Courtesy of The Australian)

The divisive and intellectually bankrupt ideology of bohemian socialism has resulted in PC rectitude trying to shoehorn the three-dimensionality of a person's humanity into the two-dimensionality of new soft-totalitarian stereotypes. Dallas Scott, a fine wordsmith and clear thinker, cuts loose at his blog, The Black Steam Train: http://theblacksteamtrain.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/the-wayland-smithers-school-of.html

The Jewish state is not an apartheid state

Adi Schwartz's article goes quite a way in explaining how the Jewish state is not an apartheid state: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/190615/israels-best-diplomat-george-deek

"Identity Politics is Evil (and Infantile)" - Daryl McCann

Jerusalem's colonialist, Euro-centric, imperialist, Zionist tram. (Actually, it's very nice)

I was an old-fashioned leftist once. In a sense I remain so, given that I am empathetic to the poor. The modern-day anti-bourgeois leftist is another story altogether. Anti-civilisation and anti-Zionism always trumps reality for these folk: http://honestreporting.com/bbc-panorama-goes-off-the-rails/   

Tanya Plibersek Ha! Ha!

Courtesy of the Australian newspaper

Labor has behaved at its 47th National Conference just as predicted yesterday in my Quadrant Online piece: http://www.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/plibersek-supported-new-boat-policycarr-20150726-3zxd2.html

President Obama's ally in the War of Freedom

See this shocking account of the rate of capital punishment in the Islamic Republic during the first half of 2015: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/07/irans-staggering-execution-spree/

Salutations to the ALP's 47th National Conference!

Here is my gift to the delegates attending Labor's 47th National Conference. Have a great meeting, comrades. I'm sure you've got some important things to be getting on with: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2015/07/make-greens-look-good/ 

Racists, fascists and socialist scum

Reclaim Australia protesters at South Australia's Parliament House (Courtesy of adelaidenow.com.au)

Here is an interesting take on the demonstrations that took place last weekend around Australia: http://www.spectator.co.uk/australia/australia-features/9587872/racists-fascists-and-socialist-scum/

Erdogan continues to lead the Turkish people towards the abyss

How much damage will Erdogan-of-the-gigantic-palace do before his time is up. Here is a fascinating article from the Middle Eastern Forum: http://www.meforum.org/5376/turkey-china

British Conservatives have become strong supporters of Israel

See the link for article from Mosaic: http://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2015/07/how-the-british-conservative-party-came-around-to-supporting-israel/

Obama's Ideology of 'Radical Realism'

Here is more information on President Obama's folly: http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-day-obama-awarded-iran-hegemony-in-the-middle-east/  I wrote about Obam's ideology here: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2014/09/radical-realism-barack-obama/

Munich 2015

President Obama continues to usher in an era of global volksgemeinschaft (people's community): http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/17221#.VabUgyqqpBc
And here is an earlier piece I wrote on Obama's appeasement: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2015/05/wiser-men-iranian-deal/

Andrew Bolt Calls Out Michael Ware

The problem with Q&A runs deeper than the Zaky Mallah farrago. Here Andrew Bolt offers a fine critique on one of last night's guests on the programme: http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/memo_to_ware_and_qa_our_civilisation_is_actually_worth_defending/

The Druze vs the Islamic State

If there is to be any future for Syria (or Iraq) it will be as a confederation. Here is an important essay, by Ofir Haivry and Yoram Hazony, on the context of a Druze autonomous region: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/191891/druze-israel-syria?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=bdb2dba2d7-Sunday_July_12_20157_10_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-bdb2dba2d7-207076705

Secular Global Cooling

Thames Frost Fair, 1683-4, by Thomas Wyke

The Thames River, apparently, is going to be freezing over again - just as it did in the past: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150709092955.htm
Here is my review of James Delingpole's 2012 Killing the Earth to Save It: http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2012/06/it-s-really-about-freedom/ 

The Commando Brigade Vs the Islamic State

In the War of Freedom new developments are occurring all the time: http://www.debka.com/article/24722/Israel-merges-IDF-elite-units-to-form-the-new-Commando-Brigade-tailored-to-combat-ISIS