Writing

Twenty years of posts on geopolitics, philosophy, media, investing and whatever else has my attention.

True Journalism Jun 2019

I guarantee the people who decry Assange “outing national security agents” would have zero problem with, say, the NYT exposing Russian agents in Washington or Russian top secrets.…

QAV with Alan Kohler May 2019

Check out our interview with one of Australia’s most respected finance journalists, Alan Kohler. Alan gave us his thoughts on the economy, unemployment, internet stocks, lying CEOs, and…

QAV looks at Stanmore Coal May 2019

On episode #12 of QAV, we’re talking about ethical investing, Bob Hawke, and, in our QAV Club episode, drilling down into the financials of Stanmore Coal. Stanmore Coal…

News Corp’s unconstrained anti-Labor bias May 2019

Following on from my recent post about needing to control the media in order to have influence over the electoral process: According to Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow…

The Original Type May 2019

The very neat, legible handwriting of Poggio Bracciolini, Renaissance hunter of ancient manuscripts, became the basis of the first types used in the printing machines in Italy. It…

Media Is Politics May 2019

I’ve been saying it for 20 years. If you want political influence in a democracy, you need to control the media. That’s why I started TPN. That’s why…

The bits the media leaves out. May 2019

In addition to targeting Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange, the US government is now throwing the book (well, actually, the Espionage Act) at Daniel Hale, former National Security…

Eleanor Roosevelt – Communist! May 2019

On this week’s Cold War podcast – the Red Scare continues. In 1939, Martin Dies Jr claimed that the Justice Department was investigating 2,850 known communists in government…

TIberius #29 “Going Deep” May 2019

On this week’s Tiberius Show: Tacitus seems to think Sejanus was the manipulator of Tiberius and that Sejanus wanted the power for himself. But of course he has…

The Podfather May 2019

Caught up with James Caffyn and his wife Chelsea last night for dinner. James has been working on this portrait of me, which he calls “The Podfather”, for…