The Muslim Brotherhood wants open borders

Find out about CAIR before you decide to support them: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/28/terror-tied-group-cair-causing-chaos-promoting-protests-lawsuits-as-trump-protects-nation/

Cate Blanchett has one of the most incisive political minds around

Being an actor is no small thing. At the same time, learning lines and impersonating people or interpreting characters does not automatically mean you are a political thinker. It is possible to be an actor and an intelligent political thinker, but that would require something more than sweeping statements backed up by no argument at all. So, no, I was only joking, Cate - your performance on the Jimmy Fallon Show was crude and lacked any sentient points. The tragedy for lefty lovelies is that nobody pushes them to rise above empty gestures. Sad. And, seriously, if you don't believe me, read this and see if she makes a single point about Donald Trump that a six-year-old couldn't make: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jan/26/cate-blanchett-on-donald-trumps-presidency-its-absurd-and-ridiculous         

Australia Day 2017

Here is an amusing piece by James McCann on Australia getting a new National Anthem: http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/opinion-our-anthem-sucks-and-its-time-to-get-a-new-one/news-story/83c6d0dc11fecf9cf17bb49128f158fe

Turkey's longstanding conspiracy against the Kurds

It is a terrible and tragic story: http://ekurd.net/crushing-kurds-unravelling-2017-01-24

Great news! Erdogan is disturbed by Trump's remarks!

Nobody is sure what President Trump remarks exactly have disturbed President Erdogan, but the fact that the Tribune of Anatolia is disturbed at all can only be good news: http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/ca0f7428-1d94-42ea-95a3-9ac9fd979bcc/Remarks-by-Trump-disturbing--Erdogan

A Fourth Detente?

First there was Eisenhower/Khrushchev, then Nixon/Brezhnev, followed by Reagan/Gorbachev. Each time a Republican president tried - not always successfully - to bring about an understanding with Moscow. We are now in the Trump/Putin era. Here is a good piece in the Nation on the chances of a Fourth Detente: https://www.thenation.com/article/the-fight-over-a-trump-putin-detente-begins/

January 20, 2017: President Trump's Inauguration

Courtesy of ABC News

Here is a transcript of President Trump's speech: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-inauguration-speech-transcript-text-full-read-a7538131.html

Do it, President Trump!

Let's hope that Donald Trump, at least in this case, takes the advice of the Pentagon: http://aranews.net/2017/01/pentagon-wants-trump-to-arm-syrian-kurds-increase-boots-on-the-ground-report/

Barack Obama, after eight years, could still not make up his mind: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/world/middleeast/obama-isis-syria-kurds.html

Meanwhile, the Ottomanites go further into territory that they lost during the First World War: w.syriahr.com/en/?p=59336 

Playing the anti-Russia card

The US intelligence agencies have "high confidence" or "moderate confidence" and increasingly we have "no confidence": http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/01/09/russia-trump-election-flawed-intelligence/  

Israel is the legal occupant of the West Bank

Hey, don't just take my word for it. Here's the judgement of the Court of Appeal of Versailles, France: https://www.dreuz.info/2017/01/13/israel-is-the-legal-occupant-of-the-west-bank-says-the-court-of-appeal-of-versailles-france/  

The New York Times allows the enemy to speak

Peter Thiel

Maureen Dowd doesn't do a hatchet job on Peter Thiel. I suppose we should be grateful to the New York Times for that: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/fashion/peter-thiel-donald-trump-silicon-valley-technology-gawker.html?_r=0   

Any old excuse to attack synagogues

This is an appalling tale from Germany of all places: http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/German-court-calls-synagogue-torching-an-act-to-criticize-Israel-478330

The day of Mosul's liberation will arrive (eventually)

Members of the Islamic State group throw a gay off a building in Mosul (Courtesy The Express newspaper) 

Violent jihadists have thrown an alleged homosexual off the roof of a building in Mosul: http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/752663/ISIS-mosul-gay-man-jihadis-punishment-stoning-iraq-homosexual-death-penalty 

Turkey's Vietnam?

Disaster has always been on the cards for the Turkish Armed Forces: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/12/world/turkey-getting-fatally-bogged-syria-fighting-sides-russia/#.WHbw1GR95eU

Erdogan sets Turkey for self-destruction

The Roboski Memorial has been destroyed

I have said it before, and I shall say it again, President Erdogan is burning down the house to get his hands on the property deed: http://ekurd.net/turkey-destroys-roboski-memorial-2017-01-09

Here's some background on the Roboski Massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roboski_airstrike    

Jerusalem Bound?

The Western Wall (Photograph: Daryl McCann)

Here is my latest piece for Quadrant Online: http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2017/01/jerusalem-bound/  

Annus Wonderfulus

http://spectator.com.au/

Here's a good article by James McCann on the year that has just been: http://spectator.com.au/2017/01/annus-wonderfulus/

Obama's Legacy

Here is my piece for The Spectator Australia: http://spectator.com.au/2017/01/obamas-legacy/

The Spectator Australia, 7 January 2017

Two McCanns for the price of one: https://subscription.spectator.com.au/?prom=T010B&pkgcode=01

Why the alt-right and the illiberals need each other

Spiked: http://www.spiked-online.com/

Here is a good piece by Tom Slater of Spiked magazine: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/why-the-alt-right-and-the-illiberals-need-each-other/19176#.WHA4hWR95eU

'Moderate' Hanan Ashrawi rejects John Kerry's speech

Which part of Hanan Ashrawi's rejection do you reject, John Kerry?

Hear from Palestine Media Watch what even the 'moderates' in the Palestinian leadership think about would-be peacemaker John Kerry's speech:https://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=19760.

    

Pssst, President-elect Trump...Erdoganistan is lethally paranoid!

So now we know! The United States is conspiring with the PKK, the Gulen Movement and the Islamic State: http://www.yenisafak.com/en/columns/tamerkorkmaz/the-attacker-in-ortakoy-is-the-american-state-of-terror-2035310 

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's Revolution

Cairo, 2013

Daniel Pipe on President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi today: http://www.meforum.org/6453/trump-bid-ti-amplify-muslim-reformers

Tony Abbott's Jerusalem Diary

Bill Shorten and Tony Abbott at the 2016 Australia-Israel-UK Dialogue in Jerusalem (Photograph Daryl McCann)

 Here is Tony Abbott's account of the 2016 Australia-Israel-UK Dialogue: http://spectator.com.au/2016/12/jerusalem-diary/

Enlightened patriotism in Hungary and Poland

1956 & 2017

We are in the midst of a global - perhaps that is the wrong word! - phenomenon: https://www.ft.com/content/417e4558-4525-11e6-9b66-0712b3873ae1?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=referral 

A people's revolt in the People's Republic?

Seriously, what have the people in the People's Republic got to complain about?

Populism - or Neo-Maoism - comes to China: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/30/chinas-homegrown-populism-to-test-xi-jinping.html

New Year's Eve terrorism in Turkey

New outrage in Turkey: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/istanbul-nightclub-attack-shooting-turkey-gunman-injured-killed-victims-new-years-eve-2016-2017-a7504046.html

The latest massacre in Turkey is further evidence that Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sacrificed the interests of his people for political gain: http://www.debka.com/article/25866/Turkey-pays-dear-for-Erdogan-overreach-into-Syria