Twenty years of posts on geopolitics, philosophy, media, investing and whatever else has my attention.
When you’re reading the news about ISIL’s bloody campaign to get political control of Iraq, it’s worth keeping in mind another bloody campaign to get political control of…
I’m fascinated to watch how the world’s media is heaping posthumous praise on Lee Kuan Yew and compare it to their depiction of his contemporaries, like Fidel Castro they took…
I, for one, am so glad we’ve been fighting over there in the Middle East to end terrorism for the past fifteen years. It seems to be going…
This is a pretty powerful post by Dan Crimmins (aka /u/mopecore), a former American soldier who says he was deployed in “11B from 2002 to 2008. Iraq in…
Apparently the Australian and US governments are convinced that we each have homegrown terrorists who are planning on carrying out some nefarious deeds on our respective countries. What I…
According to The Age, the Defence Minister says Afghanistan will “never again” be a safe haven for terrorists. And on the very same day, The Independent says they already have a…
Chris Hedges, a much respected journalist, wrote this speech which he intended to deliver at a conference on Toronto recently but his plane was delayed due to weather.…
I’ve seen a number of posts on Facebook today where people say things like “I don’t care, I’ve got nothing to hide”. I used to think like that…
What’s the world coming to when you can’t trust a Bond film to tell you the truth? Apparently Sony accepted $20m in bribes to rewrite the new Bond…
If I said something like this on Facebook, I know for a fact certain folks (you know who you are) would attack me with comments like “oh here…