The June 2016 Quadrant magazine is out!

The June 2016 edition of Quadrant is now out. I have a piece in there on Sebastian Gorka's Defeating Jihad. It is currently behind a subscriber's wall. It is a pertinent article about the magazine that appeared in Quadrant Online recently: http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2016/05/clive-james-australia-councils/

How not to defeat Donald Trump #14

Then again...maybe not

Hillary Clinton's email problem does not go away: http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/281554-clinton-email-headache-is-about-to-get-worse

Robert Rabil: Pay attention to Salafi jihadism

Here is a link to Robert Rabil's great article in the National Interest: http://nationalinterest.org/feature/profiling-muslims-bad-so-ignoring-radical-islam-16348.

Here is a review I did of Rabil's Salafism in Lebanon: From Apoliticism to Transnational Jihadism (2014):  https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2015/04/long-war-comes-lebanon/

Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Israel

Photograph: Daryl McCann

The dark fantasy of the anti-Zionist fanatics versus the reality of archeology: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=4890&r=1

The Ruination of the Republic of Turkey Continues

 http://www.bloomberg.com/

Why is Barack Obama an ally of an Islamist demagogue? The ruination of Turkey continues apace: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-26/turkey-s-kurdish-conflict-turns-once-great-town-into-deserted-battleground?

Glenn Beck is the 'progressive' on the Right

The hubris of Brad Thor and Glenn Beck

American pundit Glenn Beck, along with so many other so-called conservative commentators, has recently destroyed whatever remained of his credibility. He calls Donald Trump "the progressive on the Right" but now we know that this is the pot calling the kettle black. This is truly shocking stuff: http://www.theamericanmirror.com/audio-glenn-beck-brad-thor-discuss-patriot-assassinating-donald-trump/#more-13830

Australian-style Safe Space/Exclusive Space Tosh

Yes, we have the same modern-day leftist idiocy in Australia: http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/election-diary/2016/05/snarling-incoherence-safe-space/

Walter Russell Mead Insighghtfully Explains the Meaning of Mr Trump

http://www.wikihow.com/Stop-a-Train

The following article from the American Interest by Walter Russell Mead, in my humble opinion, comes closest to understanding the phenomenon of Donald Trump. Even Trump's supporters cannot be 100% sure of whether he is going to do what he says he is going to do, or even what he is going to do in any highly specific way; but they do sense is that the USA (and I would add the West in general) is an express train racing towards the abyss. Trump is the fellow who is pushy enough to push the Emergency Stop button on a carriage full of frightened passengers: http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/05/23/the-meaning-of-mr-trump/

Walter Russell Mead is the first to say what might soon become accepted wisdom, and so let us have a look at the wikipedia entry for a commentator who deserves his salary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Russell_Mead

Salon magazine gets deep: "Darkness in the human soul is not utility-maximizing" [Whatever]

I find some of the articles in Salon magazine quite entertaining, but perhaps not in the way the writer intended. You don't have to satirize these people for a laugh; just post their "best" stuff. This piece is particularly amusing for all the wrong reasons: http://www.salon.com/2016/05/23/donald_trump_is_going_to_win_this_is_why_hillary_clinton_cant_defeat_what_trump_represents/ 

President Obama forever clueless #2

President Obama during his recent trip to the United Kingdom

Barack Obama has inadvertently helped the Brexit campaign: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/campaigner-confident-anti-elite-winds-deliver-brexit-110610564.html

President Obama forever clueless

The Late Mullah Akhtar Mansour

Barack Obama remains totally clueless about how to fight the global jihadist movement: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-23/strike-on-taliban-leader-mansour-counter-productive/7438062

Here he is back in 2011 claiming a major turning point in the struggle against - what shall we call it, Mr President? - extremist violence after Osama bin Laden was assassinated: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/world/asia/osama-bin-laden-is-killed.html

"I laughed out loud throughout" - Camille Paglia

Expect the world but receive tosh

Camille Paglia laughs to scorn The New York Times: http://www.salon.com/2016/05/19/camille_paglia_pc_feminists_misfire_again_as_fossilized_fearful_media_cant_touch_donald_trump/

How not to defeat Donald Trump #13

Some will argue that Ann Coulter's configuring of the issue is brutal; nevertheless, the evidence suggests it's true. Why is the Democratic Party so keen on the Clintons? Say it ain't so Hillary: http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2016-05-18.html#read_more

Then, of course, there is this: http://www.wnd.com/2016/05/broaddrick-on-evil-clinton-rape-i-could-never-forgive-them/

Free Raif!

Saudi Arabia is not an ally in the War of Freedom. Free Raif! http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/17/raif-badawi-saudi-blogger-lashes-prison-ensaf-haidar?CMP=soc_567

How not to defeat Donald Trump #12

Tell us it ain't so New York Times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_ehidkNhkw

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Here is a piece by Keith Windschuttle on the Australian Arts Council subsiding leftwing-progressive magazines while giving nothing to rightwing-conservative enterprises: http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2016/05/australia-councils-revenge/
Interestingly, Quadrant has only ever received a modest amount of government largesse and that, as far as I know, has always gone towards paying for the poets in the magazine. The the services of the rest of us are paid for by subscribers.

Good news in the War of Freedom: A Wedding in Kobanî

Photograph by Mauricio Morales

Here is a photographic essay by Mauricio Morales on new beginnings in Kobanî: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2016/05/syria-civil-war-beginnings-kobane-160502084404496.html?

And this is my article in the January-February 2015 edition of Quadrant on the Battle of Kobanî: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2015/01-02/battle-modernity-borders-kurdistan/

The Soft Totalitarianism of the Progressive Left

Say it ain't so, Mark Zuckerberg: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/12/facebook-trending-news-leaked-documents-editor-guidelines

How not to defeat Donald Trump #11

The Democratic Party is offering almost the worst candidate possible to represent them in this the Year of the People: http://time.com/4328254/clinton-cash-movie-hillary-clinton-peter-schweizer-breitbart/

Islamofascism never works

Courtesy of dofolllow.de

Why does Barack Obama genuflect to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan? Meanwhile, the ruination of the Republic of Turkey continues unabated: http://www.dw.com/en/step-by-step-toward-a-one-man-regime-in-turkey/a-19244913

Leftism never works

Three propagandists who cheered on Hugo Chavez's ruination of Venezuela  

Not even the death of Chavez has saved Venezuela; the insanity continues: http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-09/catastrophe-is-the-new-normal-for-venezuelans

Here is an article I wrote on the subject in 2012: http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2012/10/commandante-catastrophe/

And in 2013: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2013/03/saint-hugo-of-venezuela/ 

The only upside about Leftism (of any variety) is that time always proves its celebrity apologists wrong and harshest critics right.

Kamzan Kadyrov fighting against the Islamic State?

The Obama administration is making it hard to square the circle. Kamzan Kadyrov is the authoritarian ruler of Chechnya (a mostly Muslim populated autonomous state within the Russian Republic) who claims to be fighting against the Islamic State, while President Obama and Chancellor Merkel fall over themselves to appease the (Islamic) Republic of Turkey, previously an enabler of the Islamic State. Is it time for some kind of paradigm shift in the thinking of we freedomists? Here is the narrative about Kadyrov Vs the IS, though I should like to see all this substantiated further: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-russia-idUSKCN0VH0UF

How not to defeat Donald Trump #10

Two-time candidate Hillary Clinton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dY77j6uBHI&feature=youtu.be

Long-term cooling trend at Adelaide Airport "adjusted" to show significant warming

The inconvenient truth of "secular global warming": The River Thames Frost Fairs

At a special 5th anniversary screening of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth I (politely) asked, at the Q&A afterwards, why Al Gore never mentioned the long, long history of "secular global warming". The host of proceeding had no answer. Well, I have one. The ends justify the means for our Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) comrades: http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2016/05/like-hotter/

For the 10th anniversary of An Inconvenient Truth I provide this five-year-old link: http://www.mrc.org/special-reports/science-fiction

Here is my 2012 review of James Delingpole's book: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2012/06/it-s-really-about-freedom/

This is a peer-review article in Nature magazine making the case that the The Hiatus is real: http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v6/n3/full/nclimate2938.html

Here is a leading CAGW campaigner: https://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=995&q=leonard+do+caprio&oq=leonard+do+caprio&gs_l=img.12..0i10i24.2451.7129.0.8914.17.17.0.0.0.0.223.2195.2j0j10.12.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..5.12.2190...0j0i8i30j0i24.D5LnevHlC0M#imgrc=cqMIZnfqsiK-DM%3A 

Message to Elizabeth Warren: Find your identity through your humanity!

Senator Warren, find your identity through your humanity, not your humanity through an "identity"

I should just like to add my bit to the Elizabeth Warren scandal, which even the Huntington Post corroborates: http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/scott-brown-elizabeth-warren_n_3587444.html?section=australia
In the January-February 2016 edition of Quadrant magazine I wrote "Things Fall Apart", a piece on Identity Politics. Here the phenomenon of Fauxcahontas or Faux Cahontis is explored from a different - but still related - perspective: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2016/01-02/things-fall-apart/   

There's a revolution in American - and Hillary Clinton is no revolutionary

Courtesy of The Brad Blog 

Anis Shivani, a Sanders supporter, reflects on the way "awful elites gutted America" and how Hillary Clinton is, well, part of the awful elite that gutted America: http://www.salon.com/2016/05/06/our_awful_elites_gutted_america_now_they_dare_ring_alarms_about_trump_sanders_and_cast_themselves_as_saviors/ 

U-turn on U-Boats

Courtesy of The Spectator Australia magazine: http://www.spectator.co.uk/australia/

Here is an amusing article by James McCann on tax payers' billions billions not well spent: http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/05/sub-standard/ 

The Intolerability of PC Tolerance

Courtesy of Tablet Magazine: http://www.tabletmag.com/

Here is an article in Tablet Magazine on the insanity/inanity of "Holocaust Without Jews": http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/201420/the-holocaust-without-jews?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=0f84bb34d2-Wednesday_May_4_20165_4_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-0f84bb34d2-207076705

And this is my essay on the very same subject: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2014/05/lethal-ideology-holocaust-inversion/ 

Black April

Here, thanks to Hong Kelly, is a new Vietnamese translation of my 2012 review of George J. Veith's Black April: https://simplebooklet.com/watb21#page=19
And here is the original review in English: http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2012/12/south-vietnam-s-journey-into-oblivion/

Our Age of Conflict

Here is the link to my review of David Kilcullen's Blood Year from the April 2016 edition of Quadrant: http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2016/04/age-conflict/