Bad Apple

We acquiesce to China but stand strong against the FBI: http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-apple-china-20160226-story.html

Why the Populist Revolution in America

A former-Disney worker spills the beans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSyRMtT0-sM

Things Fall Apart: The Great Bohemian Cultural Revolution

Here is my piece for the January-February 2016 edition of Quadrant magazine, "Things Fall Apart: The Great Bohemian Cultural Revolution", now out from behind the subscriber's wall: http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2016/01-02/things-fall-apart/

Tour of former-IS prison newly liberated by the YPG

Courtesy of ANHA news agency

Here is a report from the ANHA on a prison site in Shadadi (now Kri Shadi) newly liberated from the Islamic State group: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxcQYMBjOXY&feature=youtu.be 

Sultan Erdoğan goes back in time towards the glorious future

The AK Party & the Islamic State are cousins

Erdoğan is at war with modernity: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkeys-difficult-times.aspx?PageID=238&NID=95500&NewsCatID=406

Boris Johnson does his duty!

Boris Johnson leads the way: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-35626621

Salon magazine abandons Hillary Clinton!

I have previously written that the American electors have "gone rogue" - we might now begin to say the same about pro-Democratic Party media: http://www.salon.com/2016/02/19/hillary_clinton_just_cant_win_democrats_need_to_accept_that_only_bernie_sanders_can_defeat_the_gop/

Pope just gave a big fat wet kiss to Trump

Courtesy of the Steve Malzberg Show

The on-going, self-defeating foolishness of the anti-Trump brigade (which obviously includes Pope Francis) is truly astonishing. Here Republican commentator - and Cruz supporter - Mary Matalin makes the point that the Pope's comments about a wall along the Mexican border only helps Trump's case: http://www.newsmaxtv.com/shows/steve-malzberg-show/archive/vid/1ranEyMTE6kqCy_LTB4AiIBoUxMCOso6/

And here is Donald Trump taking his free kick: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/18/donald-trump-pope-francis-christian-wall-mexico-border

The Azaz-Jarabulus Corridor (Part XI)

A united Rojava (in dark green): This continues to be the plan

The narrative continued to unfold as first presented in Part I: http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/the-ypg-s-next-move-a-two-front-war-for-the-manbij-pocket 

Have The Donald & Kanye West co-opted our "Call-Out" Culture?

Courtesy of Vice magazine: http://www.vice.com/en_au/ 

Here is an interesting argument by James McCann: http://noisey.vice.com/en_au/blog/make-kanye-great-again-how-trump-and-ye-are-manipulating-call-out-culture

The Azaz-Jarabulus Corridor (Part X)

February 16, 2016: when the yellow meets, contiguous Rojava will be complete  

By following a "third path" in the Syrian Civil War, the Kurds/Rojavans have come closer to achieving their goal of an autonomous/confederate state that is contiguous: http://ekurd.net/conflict-syria-takes-kurds-autonomy-2016-02-17?

The Azaz-Jarabulus Corridor (Part IX)

According to this report from UPI, one CIA-backed militia is battling another CIA-backed militia in in northern Allepo province, Syria: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/02/16/Syria-Kurds-capture-strategic-town-from-Arab-rebels-in-Aleppo-province/7831455645230/?spt=sec&or=tn

Jeb Bush's Weakness

I think Byron York, writing for the Washington Examiner, has this about right: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2583300

Obama's Bloody, Bumbling Incoherence

Here is my latest piece for Quadrant Online: http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2016/02/obamas-bloody-bumbling-incoherence/

Stoking the fires of the populist revolution

Courtesy of http://www.conservativeoutfitters.com/

Note the paternalistic tone of the PR guy announcing the redundancy of American workers. Does he have sound like high school principal speaking to recalcitrant students? Here is a link to Joe Brunner's YouTube piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3ttxGMQOrYo

The Azaz-Jarabulus Corridor (Part VIII)

Female Kurdish fighters commandeering a tank in the Mannagh victory (Courtesy of the Kurdish ANHA news service)

The road to Azaz, after the After the Mannagh victory, now beckons for the Syrian Democratic Forces (and the Kurdish YPG/YPJ): http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/kurdish-women-ride-tanks-into-battle-as-fight-rages-over-aleppo-air-base/?

American voters have gone rogue

Here is the link to my piece for The Drum on the New Hampshire primary

The Azaz-Jarabulus Corridor (Part VII)

Courtesy of: http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/obamas-confused-syria-strategy/

Erdoğan is now demanding that President Obama choose between the Islamic Republic of Turkey and the secularist Rojavans (Syrian Kurds): http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=75103

The BDS is a left-fascist movement

Here is an article from the leftist Haaretz newspaper: http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.701087

This is a link to an article I wrote on Sarah Schulman's Israel/Palestine and the Queer International: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2013/04/nationalism-and-identity-politics-in-israel/

There is a humorous piece here: http://jewishmediaagency.com/so-you-want-to-boycott-israel-here-is-your-list/

Would we want to inflict Rudd on the UN?

Here is my latest piece for The Drum: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-04/mccann-why-would-we-want-to-inflict-rudd-on-the-un/7138408

The Azaz-Jarabulus Corridor (Part VI)

Nobody can be entirely sure what happens next as the Syrian civil war reaches another turning point: http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/syria/030220161

After Iowa: It's a three-horse race

Strangely enough, Senator Marco Rubio might have been the real winner in Iowa despite coming third: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-iowa-idUSMTZSAPEC21V82B3P