Category: geopolitics

No Illusions Podcast 08 – Dominion Over Fowl Mar 2010

Tonight we try something we haven’t done in a long time – Chrissy joins me on the podcast. We lit up a Perdomo Lot 23, sat outside on…

Pax Corleone Mar 2010

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been thinking about how the film The Godfather is actually a brilliant and accurate allegory for United States foreign policy. I…

Iraq: Gun Barrel Democracy Mar 2010

Bret Stephens at the WSJ writes a glowing “Ode To George W Bush” as the liberator of Iraq who gave them the golden calf of democracy. He neglects…

Britain Wipes Out Another Race Feb 2010

Al Jazeera reports that the last surviving member of the Bo tribe from India has died. The 65,000 year old people – who were 5,000 strong when the…

The Kidnapping of Haiti by John Pilger Jan 2010

Insightful as always, award-winning Australian journalist John Pilger has written his assessment of what’s happening in Haiti. Here’s an excerpt: The theft of Haiti has been swift and…

No Illusions Podcast #05 – Haiti, Part One Jan 2010

Today I’m chatting about Haiti. To understand why many people are concerned about the USA sending thousands of marines into Haiti after the recent earthquake, you have to…

Defeat Consumerism (For A Day)! Jan 2010

So instead of Christmas, we celebrated the life of Anaxagoras, history’s first recorded scientist and atheist. And instead of giving my kids presents, we gave them power vouchers.…

Know Which Fight You’re In Dec 2009

We just got back from the first Brisbane meetup around #nocleanfeed. It was a pretty huge turnout, I’d guess 100 people. Well done to @nicholasperkins and everyone else…

Ethics vs Economics Dec 2009

I was reading more of Clive Splash’s writing over the last few days and it struck me why I’m always getting into arguments with people about how we’re…

A few words from Clive Splash Dec 2009

It was announced today that Dr Clive Splash has resigned from the CSIRO because the organisation was censoring his attempts to criticize Cap and Trade schemes. As I’m…