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Google, are we allowed to ask why the first things find when searching for Quadrant Online always involve negative beat-ups from left-wing sources?

Let me, just as an experiment, look up your search results for the left-wing The Monthly...A few minutes later, as Big Tech can check. Here we go:

How solicitous of Google to provide a link to The Monthly's subscription site, its Twitter address, and its Facebook page. So helpful for some, so unhelpful to others.


Come on, Google, fair is fair. Please redress the balance. You can do it! You can do it. You can do it. You can do it.


I will check up later today for results.

Between Nationalisms and the Right Idea of a Nation

http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/chi_siamobdc4.html?eng=y

This is an interesting piece, originally in Italian but now in English, that I have just found: http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/2019/12/16/between-nationalisms-and-right-idea-of-nation-the-political-misstep-of-pope-francis/

Commemorating Muhammad Shahrur

Islam and humanity: http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Muhammad-Shahrur,-reformer-of-Islamic-thought-loathed-by-extremists,-has-died-48890.html

The War on Christians

https://csi-usa.org

Here is my Christmas Day piece for Quadrant Online: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/christmas/2019/12/the-war-on-christians/

Christmas Greetings to Palestine's Persecuted Christians

Reputed site of our Lord's Manger [Photograph: Daryl McCann]

An important read: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15318/persecuted-palestinian-christians

Firefighting in an Australian hillside suburb

(Photographer: Daryl McCann)

Thanks to the intrepidity of the aerial firefighters, this bushfire did not cross a main road (to the right of the photographs) and burn down our suburb.

One morning, as Ian McEwan was waking from anxious dreams...

Cockroach-icity must be in the eye of the beholder 

I read a lot of Ian McEwan's at one point, and my feeling was that WE would one day be judged for promoting his work as "heavyweight". McEwan linking himself to a genuine heavyweight, Franz Kafka, is seriously not fair to Kafka. Kafka, more than any other writer I know, was prescient about the oligarchical state swallowing up capitalism/reality/individuality et al. McEwan has been a beneficiary of this process - think of all the state-funded talkfests our author has attended, state-funded prizes he has been awarded, state-subsidised schools that have bought his texts, state-prescribed curricula compelling young people to read his work - and now HE is calling Brexiteers/the People cochroaches for asking Big Brother to back off a little, so they might have a more autonomous life and enjoy a picnic or two.  Read Metamorphosis and then take a look at David Martin's  https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2019/12/ian-mcewan-does-la-cucaracha/   

The Insane WaPo: Could Boris Johnson lose his own seat?

The insane Washington Post disgraces itself once again: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/in-boris-johnsons-home-turf-voters-are-turning-out-with-one-objective-boot-him-out/2019/12/12/139aef80-1c66-11ea-977a-15a6710ed6da_story.html

The Deep State's Contempt For Democracy

Here is my latest article, now liberated from behind Quadrant's subscriber wall (although a subscription to Quadrant would make a great Christmas present): https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2019/12/the-deep-states-contempt-for-democracy/

Clive James RIP. Appreciating Clive James in 2011.

The Salisbury Review site has republished the essay I wrote about Clive James back in 2011: https://www.salisburyreview.com/blog/clive-james-rip-an-appreciation/

Daryl McCann Talks To Tacitus Today About Communist China.

Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGDR8Ah12QA&list=UUA4F-RLp5kxnsDr6UegJVzQ&index=2&t=0s 

Cardinal Pell may appeal to the High Court

Impossible Twice Over

This is from Andrew Bolt on Australia's Sky News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze5jHaDB4pk


Here is the piece I wrote for Salisbury Review magazine earlier this year: http://darylmccann.blogspot.com/2019/06/australias-dreyfus.html 

Australian University Students as Freedomists

Lennon Wal

Drew Pavlou is an Australian freedom fighter: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/23/queensland-student-sues-chinese-consul-general-alleging-he-incited-death-threats

Remembrance Day Ceremony, November 11th, 2019

The Battle of Hamel, July 4, 1918

Today, millions across the world will pause to remember those who lost their lives in the Great War, World War I. Many people do this each year, but this year the moment will be of even greater significance, as it will mark a century since the official signing of the Paris Peace Treaties in 1919 that officially announced a new era of peace in Europe and the world. The actual fighting had ended the year before, on the 11^th of the 11^th at 11.00 am, which is why we come together to remember and try to make sense of the horror unleashed between the years 1914 and 1918.

Fearsome futurist tale for gullible grown-ups

Whatever

This review of Atwood's novel/series is worth reading: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2019/11/the-handmaids-myth/

"We're in a Permanent Coup" - Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi's is a great piece, but I fear he he is only scratching the surface, Still, it is a start: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/were-in-a-permanent-coup


Here is my take on the establishment media: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2019/06/big-media-and-the-great-kremlin-conspiracy/

Caroline B. Glick defends Trump's Syria policy

Sultan Erdogan gives the Muslim Brotherhood salute

Click makes a reasonable argument but I am yet to be convinced: https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/trump-did-not-betray-the-kurds/  Glick blames "the Pentagon" for failing to re-think America's relationship with Erdogan's Turkey, but should not that kind of re-do come from the Oval Office? I am just reading that Turkish alliance troops have now "liberated" over 700 Islamic State fighters from a prison in northern Turkey. Why should we be surprised?   

Sanctions against Erdogan's regime NOW

Erdogan's neo-Ottoman imperialism must be resisted: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50025020   

China and its Australian Apologists

Democracy Wall, 1979: Photograph by Daryl McCann

Here is an essay I wrote for Quadrant magazine, October 2019, which has just come out from behind the paywall: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2019/10/china-and-its-australian-apologists/

Here is a photographic essay on China 1979: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2012/04/china-1979-a-photographic-essay/

Communist China Downunder

Here is my latest article for the Salisbury Review, which appears in the Autumn 2019 edition of this British magazine:

Alexander Downer Comes in from the Cold

Here is my take on Alexander Downer's role in the Great Kremlin Conspiracy: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2019/10/downer-comes-in-from-the-cold/

James McCann in The Father Hood

An insightful interview of James McCann: https://www.the-father-hood.com/article/comedian-james-mccann-dad-jokes-are-an-abuse-of-power/

Hong Kong is the new West Berlin

Good to see Joshua Wong out of jail and making the perfect analogy about Hong Kong: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/10/hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-visit-berlin-anger-china  

United Nations must intervene to protect the people of Hong Kong

The treatment of the people of Hong Kong is outrageous: https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/harrowing-video-that-shocked-hong-kong-shows-cycle-of-escalating-violence-20190901-p52mv9.html

Reclaim Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Time

Joshua Wong has been arrested

Ilaria Maria Sala reports on the freedomist revolution in Hong Kong: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/30/hong-kongs-be-water-protests-leaves-china-casting-about-for-an-enemy 

China is NOT the Communist Party

A good article on the PRC:  https://tsionizm.com/analysis/2019/08/24/chimerica-must-die-but-china-cannot-win-the-great-trade-war-of-2019/

Aussiexit

Courtesy of Spectator Australia

This article appears in the latest edition of Spectator Australia: https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/08/aussiexit/  

The Rain, Victoria Park & Other Things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiMCTjO_dHI

Power to the people: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/18/world/asia/hong-kong-protest.html

Be Like Water!

Courtesy of Reuters

The Hongkongers are freedomist revolutionaries: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/hongkong-protests-protesters/ 

Repeat: Chicoms to kill Hongkongers then themselves

Someone agrees with me: https://creativedestructionmedia.com/news/asia/2019/08/13/the-hong-kong-protesters-are-going-to-die-but-the-chinese-communist-party-will-die-along-with-them/

People's Republic of China, 1959

Qingdao, 1959 (John Hamilton)

John Hamilton was an eyewitness to the PRC in 1959: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-11/analysis-hong-kong-protest-offering-a-reminder-of-chinas-past/11390326

The PRC will destroy itself (but not before it destroys Hong Kong)

An electronic Communist Chinese flag over Hong Kong

The Communist Politburo cannot help itself: https://creativedestructionmedia.com/news/asia/2019/08/05/exclusive-china-flies-electronic-flag-over-hong-kong-drop-your-knife/

China's Horrifying Child-Killing Policy

Courtesy of the Daily Beast (of all places)

Another inside story on the PRC: https://www.thedailybeast.com/one-child-nation-inside-chinas-horrifying-child-killing-policy 

Power to the Hong Kong people!

The People's Flag

From the AsiaNews site: http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Extradition-law:-Civil-servants-and-bank-employees-join-protests-47663.html

Countering Red China

Courtesy of The Times newspaper

The United States-Australian relations are as important as they have been since the Second World War: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-29/americas-push-to-expand-naval-facilities-in-northern-australia/11354926

The Democrats Today: The Corrupt and the Crazy

Here is my latest piece for Quadrant magazine (July-August 2019), now out from behind the paywall: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2019/07/the-corrupt-and-the-crazy/   

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother?

David Steinberg via Powerline has this story: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/07/david-steinberg-tying-up-loose-threads-in-the-curious-case.php?utm_source=email&utm_medium=sw&utm_campaign=sw


In the service of balance, Will Sommer, writing for the Daily Beast, says it's not true: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-ilhan-omar-marriage-smear-went-from-an-anonymous-post-on-an-obscure-forum-to-being-embraced-by-trump

The Sultan of Swing: Enemy of Freedom, Enemy of the West

The Sultan of Bling

How will the Islamic Republic of Turkey betray the West next? https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2019-07-17/pentagon-issues-warning-as-turkey-appears-poised-to-retaliate-against-us-in-syria

Democrats endorse Socialism and hate of Israel

We will hear much more of this in the future because it is true: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/15/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-liberal-democrats-accuse-/?utm_source=onesignal&utm_campaign=pushnotify&utm_medium=push

Watch "Death By China" for Free

Here is the link to a free viewing of Peter Navarro's Death By China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMlmjXtnIXI

Big Brother Distracted

Standing up to the Red Dragon has had unexpected positive effects in the PRC: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/19/asia-pacific/chinas-advanced-big-brother-experiment-bureaucratic-mess/#.XSADxy3L0RZ

Republic of People vs the People's Republic

How inspiring: https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2019/jul/04/how-hong-kong-protesters-used-hand-signals-and-human-chains-to-storm-government-video-explainer