Barack Obama's Point Man in the Middle East jails the journalists

Courtesy of the Washington Times

The Sultan of Turkey charges  journalists of every persuasion with "terrorism": https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/30/turkish-correspondent-tweets-arrests-of-42-journalists-in-turkey

Stitched up by Australian "current affairs" TV programme

Courtesy of Spectator magazine

This is the dirty game anti-Zionists now play: http://spectator.com.au/2015/01/a-muslims-ambush-weekend-sunrise-bares-its-anti-israel-bias/

Understanding the War of Freedom: Leftist columnist begins the journey

Peter Goers has a shot at starting to explain the problem to the general public: http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/opinion/peter-goers-who-will-free-turkey-from-this-turkey/news-story/96ab79a79618d446e58c91f2b79f0c3a 

Prime Minister Turnbull has done the right thing

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull

PM Rudd has done the right thing: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-29/kevin-rudd-un-secretary-general-bid-endorsed-by-malcolm-turnbull/7671542

It would have been easy to do the PC thing and endorse Kevin Rudd for the position of UN Secretary General but the United Nations is dysfunctional enough as it is. I wrote about this earlier in the year for the ABC's The Drum: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-04/mccann-why-would-we-want-to-inflict-rudd-on-the-un/7138408 If the Labor politicians are so disappointed about PM Turnbull not endorsing Rudd, why did they not sack him mid-term in 2010? Some consistency, please, Labor.
 
Here is a longer piece I write about the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd era: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2013/06/raking-the-ruins-of-the-rudd-gillard-legacy/

Oh, and here is another: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2014/07-08/boat-people-brought-rudd-gillard/

German authorities raid Salafite mosque in Hildesheim

Here is a report from Australia's ABC: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/authorities-raid-mosque-northern-germany-40937561

Pope says WW3! - Shhh, don't tell Obama!

Seriously, who's going to tell Barack Obama the bad news? http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-28/pope-says-killing-of-innocents-proof-world-is-at-war/7667350

"Til human voices wake us, and we drown" - T.S. Eliot

Father Jacques Hamel

Father Jacques Hamel, a martyr in the War of Freedom: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/26/men-hostages-french-church-police-normandy-saint-etienne-du-rouvray

The Lancing of the Clintons!

Clinton Cash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LYRUOd_QoM

Today's Lord and Lady Macbeth are shockers and, according to Tony Thomas, Australian politicians have enabled them: http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2016/07/clintons-corruptocrats/ 

Julian Assange weighs in on WikiLeaks and the cashed-up Clintons: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/07/julian-assange-slams-hillary-clinton-first-interview-following-wikileaks-dnc-email-release-video/ 

German Authorities in Denial

Courtesy of Debka

Here is a report from Debka: http://www.debka.com/article/25568/Terror-wave-catches-German-authorities-in-denial

Erdogan has coup prisoners "raped, starved and hogtied"

Erdogan is one of the most wicked men on the planet: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/thousands-turkey-coup-prisoners-raped-8485304#ICID=sharebar_twitter

He wants to create his own Islamic state: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-emergency-idUSKCN1030BC

And he will stop at nothing: http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160724/1043565965/erdogan-turkey-coup-purge-executions.html

Democratic National Committee in Meltdown Mode

Courtesy of The Last Refuge: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/

The WikiLeaks organisation has gone to war against the DNC and the results are ugly: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/07/22/washington-post-and-dnc-hold-joint-fundraiser-for-hillary-clinton-lawyers-said-illegal-did-it-anyway/

And this: http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/24/leaked-emails-show-dnc-officials-planned-anti-trump-protests/

The Kurds have found their Byron

James Delingpole reviews, in the Spectator, Ross Kemp's documentary on the Kurds: http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/07/in-ross-kemp-the-kurds-have-found-their-byron-sky-1s-the-fight-against-isis-reviewed/ 

Expel Turkey from NATO

The Islamic Republic of Turkey is on the 'other team' in the War of Freedom: http://ekurd.net/turkey-coup-about-kurds-2016-07-22

A Catastrophic Presidency During The Long War

Courtesy of the Daily Mail

Our prayers to the people of Munich: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36870874
Our scorn to the president of the United States of America: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3703975/Grinning-Obama-JOKES-Munich-carnage-press-conference-shifts-gears-talk-daughter-Malia-leaving-nest-college.html Hubris and ideology, as I have repeatedly written, are the hallmarks of the Obama presidency.

The 2016 Reichstag Fire Decree

And so the inevitable "emergency law": https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/21/turkey-parliament-expected-to-pass-erdogan-emergency-measures.

The Reichstag Fire Decree of 1933: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_Fire_Decree

The Enabling Act of 1933: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933

Here is a good piece on the double standards applied to Turkey: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/438116/turkey-coup-academic-freedom-dies-silence-western-academics

Which side are Sudan & Palestinian Authority on in the War of Freedom?

Sudan's Omar al-Bashira

Israel is fast becoming an ally of many African nations who fear the Global Islamic Jihad: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Israel-and-majority-Muslim-African-country-Guinea-to-establish-ties-460944
We should not be surprised if (North) Sudan and the Palestinian Authority want to "constrain" the forces of freedom: http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Palestinians-Sudan-working-to-restrain-Israeli-breakthrough-in-Africa-462034 

Why is Mayor Sadiq Khan against Hezbollah ban?

Hezbollah "Community Organisers"

Here is the story from the Middle East Forum: http://www.meforum.org/blog/2016/07/sadiq-khan-hezbollah

Matt Drudge couldn't have or wouldn't have stopped the rise and rise of Donald Trump?

Courtesy of The Australian

An interesting question: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/drudge-report-trump-2016-7?r=US&IR=T

58% of Turks want Sultan Erdoğan out!

Here is the address of the Streetbees site: http://www.streetbees.com/ 

Seventy-two percent of Turks do not want Islamic law. Tugce Bulut's fascinating Streebees polling also tells us that, though the Turkish people did not endorse the attempted coup, 58% of them want Erdoğan out: https://medium.com/street-voice/what-is-happening-in-turkey-106e56347407#.jsohx0hgb

Introducing the Islamic Republic of Turkey

The Islamic Republic of Turkey

This is Patrick Cockburn in the Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/turkey-coup-president-erdogan-islam-akp-government-a7142836.html

Trade Agreement between the UK and Australia: Let's get to it!

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is moving quickly on this: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/17/australia-eager-to-start-free-trade-talks-with-britain?CMP=soc_567

Here is what I wrote about Brexit two weeks ago: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-27/mccann-brexit-could-be-just-the-beginning/7545664

The Turkey coup failed, but democracy did not win

Here is my commentary on failed Turkish coup at the ABC's Drum: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-18/mccann-the-turkey-coup-failed,-but-democracy-didn't-win/7637942

The Next President and the Long War

Here is a piece I wrote on the US election that appears in the July-August, 2016, edition of Quadrant magazine: http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2016/07-08/us-election-fighting-long-war/ 

Ally of Islamic State in trouble!

Courtesy of the Guardian

The Turkish Armed Forces move to "reinstitute constitutional order, human rights and freedoms": https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/jul/15/turkey-coup-attempt-military-gunfire-ankara

Here is something I have written on Recep Tayyip Erdogan: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2015/10/sins-sultan-erdogan/

And something else: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-15/mccann-how-the-turkish-president-is-burning-down-his-own-house/7246740

A Creed to Defeat Radical Islamic Jihadism

Our hearts go out to the victims of Islamic terrorism in Nice. Here is a recent essay in the Long War Journal that reports on a campaign that has been raging for many years, no less so than this year. For instance, there were 600 Islamic State suicide attacks in the first half of 2016: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/07/islamic-state-claims-nearly-600-suicide-attacks-in-first-six-months-of-2016.php

I wrote about Enlightened Patriotism in November last year: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2015/11/enlightened-patriotism-vs-political-correctness/

Breibart Journalist Does Time

Lee Stranahan (courtesy of Breibart)

One can protest against and actually experience injustice without supporting professional insurrectionists such as Black Lives Matter, let alone leftist opportunists such as Hillary Clinton. If you don't believe me, read this following piece. All credit to Breibart journalist Lee Stranahan for putting himself on the line and telling it like it is: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/07/12/lee-stranahan-my-weekend-incarceration-in-a-baton-rouge-prison/#disqus_thread.       

Thanks Erdogan: 27% of Turks do not have an unfavourable opinion of the Islamic State

Activist Salafism (Muslim Brotherhood etc) and Salafi Jihadism (the Islamic State etc) are "brothers in doctrine". This article, in Middle East Forum, helps to explain why using Erdogan's Turkey as an example: http://www.meforum.org/6110/turkey-isis? 

Erdogan's Turkey is not on our side in the War of Freedom

New UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is on the side of liberty in the War of Freedom. Here, in the Guardian, is proof: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/19/boris-johnson-wins-most-offensive-erdogan-poem-competition. Please note, by the way, all the back stories on Angela Merkel's submission to the whims of Sultan Erdogan.

Here is a piece I wrote about Boris Johnson for the Salisbury Review in December 2003: http://darylmccann.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/boris-wizard-of-oz.html. I think it stands the test of time all right.

Purdue University & Soft Totalitarianism

We must pushback against the soft totalitarianism of Political Correctness: http://heatst.com/culture-wars/update-purdue-now-says-it-wont-expel-student-who-criticized-black-lives-matter/

Erdogan is a Muslim Brotherhood guy, a tyrant, a sectarian and an international joke

The Islamic Republic of Turkey

Erdogan hates the Zionist entity, loves Israel, hates Assad, respects Assad, embraces Putin, attacks Putin, respects Putin, respects Iran, plots against Iran, cautiously optimistic about Iran...the only consistency in this fellow's policy is the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Turkey. He is not at war with Kurds - he is at war with secularism, Kurdish or otherwise: http://www.independent.ie/world-news/middle-east/turkey-edges-closer-to-deal-with-syria-at-expense-of-kurds-34882896.html?     

Syrian Democratic Forces now control 70% of Manbij

The SDF is drawing closer to a monumental victory: http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/d8ff2656-c6e1-4954-a138-580f3d42fe9d/Kurdish-led-forces-control-nearly-70--of-Manbij--northern-Syria?

The unleashing of the demons from hell

The Ottoman Empire

This is a great piece by Jonathan P. Berkey in The American Interest: http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/07/07/the-tragedy-of-modernity-in-the-middle-east/?

Peter van Buren: Why Washington still gets it wrong on Islamic State terrorism

Peter van Buren's Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_van_Buren  

Here is a useful piece by Peter van Buren: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-islamic-state-commentary-idUSKCN0ZF2L2

Hillary Clinton's True Lies

Obviously nothing, nothing wrong...nothing, nothing wrong: http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/07/06/msnbc-montage-fbi-contradicted-multiple-claims-by-clinton-about-her-email/

Left-fascism at American Universities

Left-fascism is a growing danger in the West: http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/07/05/students-for-justice-in-palestine-at-uc-irvine-under-possible-criminal-investigation-for-violence-at-anti-israel-protest/#

Losing the Winnable War

Here is my June, 2016, Quadrant piece on Sebastian Gorka's Defeating Jihad (2016): http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2016/06/losing-winnable-war/

How not to defeat Donald Trump #19

The FBI's James Comey: Nobody did nothing, nothing wrong...nothing, nothing wrong

I enjoyed this piece, "Comey's Hanoi Confession", by Scott McKay in the American Spectator: http://spectator.org/comeys-hanoi-confession/

Holocaust Survivor Elie Wiesel (1928-2016)

Holocaust Survivor Elie Wiesel has died: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/02/elie-wiesel-nobel-winner-holocaust-survivor-dies

This is his Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie_Wiesel

Australian Election: The Need to Clean the Liberals' Stable

Here is my commentary at Quadrant Online on the July 2 Australian election: http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2016/07/need-clean-liberals-stable/

The Azaz-Jarabulus Corridor (Part XII)

The June 2016 Manbij Offensive: https://imagopyrenaei.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/manbij-offensive-f.gif

Hillary Clinton's ongoing email scandal: nothing, nothing wrong...nothing, nothing wrong

It is good to know that in Obama's America nobody - cough, cough - is above the law: http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/30/exclusive-state-department-wont-release-clinton-foundation-emails-for-27-months/