The debate we need to resolve about modern terrorism

Here is my response to Brussels in the ABC's The Drum: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-29/mccann-the-debate-we-need-to-resolve-about-modern-terrorism/7281158

The Taliban murders Christians on Easter Sunday

We should always remember the horror of these things despite the reoccurrence: http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-pakistan-blast-20160327-story.html

The Islamic State murders 25 in Baghdad soccer stadium

The horrors perpetrated by the Islamic State group are still occurring in Iraq: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/25/suicide-bomber-kills-29-in-a-football-stadium-near-baghdad

Life Itself

I was tremendously moved by documentary about Roger Ebert's life, Life Itself, which I have just watched. Here is his official site with all his reviews: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews

Australia's Victory over the People-Smugglers: The Salisbury Review, Spring 2016

Australia’s Victory over People-Smugglers

Daryl McCann

  

At the 2015 Margaret Thatcher Lecture, Australia’s former-PM Tony Abbott warned that unchecked immigration represented a potential catastrophe because “a country that can’t control its borders starts to lose control of itself.” This is something the voters in the United Kingdom might ponder ahead of the referendum on European Union membership scheduled for June 2017.    

Existentialism - intellectual fashion of its time

Cover of March 2016 edition of Literary Review

Here is John Gray's essay on Sarah Bakewell's Being Human (2016) in the latest edition of Literary Review: https://literaryreview.co.uk/being-human

Marxists complain about exploitation by capitalists; American workers just want their jobs back

The proletariat is revolting against "the system" - but in the opposite way from what Karl Marx foresaw: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/business/economy/carrier-workers-see-costs-not-benefits-of-global-trade.html

Hillary has ancien regime connections in a revolutionary year

Illustration by Steve Brodner, courtesy of the Observer

In the populist revolt of 2016, President Clinton (1993-2001) belongs to a pre-revolutionary era: http://observer.com/2016/03/bill-and-chain-the-clinton-presidency-could-hold-back-hillary/

Erdogan: Democracy has absolutely no value

Erdogan initiated the terrorism that he now uses to justify his clamp down on democracy: http://www.dw.com/en/erdogan-claims-fighting-terrorism-outweighs-democracy-in-turkey/a-19120587

What is to explain Donald Trump?

Here is my latest article for the ABC's The Drum: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-18/mccann-who-is-to-blame-for-donald-trump/7256858

Who would have known: Islamic State commits genocide

Secretary of State John Kerry (belatedly) speaks the truth: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/17/politics/us-iraq-syria-genocide/index.html

The Longest Train Ride in India

Courtesy of Quartz magazine http://qz.com/

Here is a fascinating account of an 85-hour train journey through India: http://qz.com/640380/sipping-tea-and-making-friends-on-an-85-hour-indian-train-odyssey/

Ankara bombing: How the Turkish president is burning down his own house

Here is the link to my latest Drum article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-15/mccann-how-the-turkish-president-is-burning-down-his-own-house/7246740

Lord of the Flies comes to Raqqa

Nothing matters more than freedom: http://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/two-brave-women-carry-hidden-cameras-film-life-inside-islamic-stateheld-alraqqah-syria/news-story/1588c7a17147186ddbc615b2976ba490

A site worth visiting is Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently: http://www.raqqa-sl.co/en/ 

Made of Stone

I finally caught up with this documentary on Stan and found it illuminating: http://www.film4.com/reviews/2013/the-stone-roses-made-of-stone

Benedict the Dane

Courtesy of The Adelaide Review

Here is a review of Benedict Cumberbatch's performance as Hamlet the Dane: http://adelaidereview.com.au/arts/cinema/review-hamlet/

The are some historical Hamlets at this site: http://www.lookandlearn.com/picture-sets/index.php#id=show57&num=9

The latest edition of Salisbury Review is out!

http://salisburyreview.com/

See here for the contents:

Are "People For Bernie" Left-fascists?

"People For Bernie" are very proud of themselves for brownshirting Donald Trump's Chicago rally: http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/03/11/far-left-anarchists-with-moveon-org-and-bernie-sanders-take-credit-for-chicago-political-mayhem/

Camille Paglia supports Sanders but has some praise for Trump

Camille Paglia reconfigures her stance on Donald Trump in Salon magazine: http://www.salon.com/2016/03/10/i_was_wrong_about_donald_trump_camille_paglia_on_the_gop_front_runners_refreshing_candor_and_his_impetuousness_too/

Why American voters have gone rogue in Michigan (and elsewhere)

Courtesy of Real Clear Politics

Here is piece in the Guardian that helps to explain why American voters in places like Michigan are supporting the populist candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/07/donald-trump-why-americans-support 

New York Times: Michigan primary will test Donald Trump's strategy

Tomorrow will tell if Donald Trump can win over "Reagan's Democrats": http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/07/us/politics/michigan-primary.html

Peer-reviewed Nature magazine article: "The Hiatus is real"

If you are an honest man, Leonardo Wilhem diCaprio, click here and then speak its truth to the world: http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v6/n3/full/nclimate2938.html 

The existence of The Hiatus does not in itself disprove the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) thesis, but it does raise questions about those who repeat robotically that the "science is settled". Here is a summary of the article: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/02/the-global-warming-hiatus-is-real-so-why-dont-we-hear-about-it/

New York Times "conservative" reduced to ad hominem attack

Left-populism and "sensible conservative" populism have much in common 

David Brooks is paid to generate ideas. Here is the chance for him to critique the new conservative populism or "sensible conservatism" (as Trump calls it) and all he can do is "attack the man": http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/opinion/donald-trump-the-great-betrayer.html?ref=opinion&_r=0  Somebody should write a tome titled How Not To Defeat Donald Trump. While I would like progressive Democrats to tell us why America (and any sovereign nation) should not have control over its borders or why the Muslim Brotherhood and Identity Politics are a good thing, it would be nice if "moderate Republicans" could explain the morality (and political viability) of Mitt Romney's 2012 icy dismissal of 47% of the electorate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2gvY2wqI7M   

The AKP and the Muslim Brotherhood

Muslim Brotherhood acolyte flashes the Rabia sign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabia_sign

I am not sure why it is left to state-run Russian media outlets to speak the truth on this disturbing subject, but there you go: http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160304/1035799585/turkey-us-conflict-terrorism.html