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Wednesday 16 October 2019

"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/

Sunday 13 October 2019

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?   

Sunday 6 October 2019

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/

Thursday 3 October 2019

Communist China Downunder




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