by PAUL COLLITS – THE strange, complicated and seemingly endless process to replace the late and unlamented Boris Johnson as prime minister of the United Kingdom continues, as the governance of the Motherland sits in limbo. They began with a dozen candidates,…
by GABRIEL MOENS – THE world has reacted with shock to the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Abe was prime minister of Japan on two occasions, from 2006 to 2007 and 2012 to 2020, when he resigned for health…
by DAVID FLINT – IF THERE is a name to conjure with in 2022, that name is surely Volodymyr Zelensky. How different he proved to be from our expectations about politicians who find themselves in similar situations. By failing to invoke the…
RUSSIA has reiterated its threat to target arms shipments to Ukraine, with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov saying any cargo believed to be carrying weapons is “fair game”. He has also vowed to block the transfer of Soviet-era S-300 air defence systems to…
by DAVID FLINT – WITH the launch of a war of aggression in the Ukraine by Russian dictator Putin, it is time now to make a serious reassessment of the British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain. Who would have thought that this much-maligned…
by JURIS LAUCIS – IN THE days of America’s wild west, the robbery victim was paralysed into passivity by the simple phrase “stick ’em up”. Today, the same result is achieved by an equally simple phrase “I’ve put our nuclear forces on…
by DAVID FLINT – EMPIRES can normally expect to survive for about ten generations, around 250 years, argued Glubb Pasha persuasively in The Fate of Empires. The imperial republic, as great French philosopher Raymond Aron described the United States, is the West’s great…
RUSSIA’s invasion of Ukraine has been a “rude awakening” for political leaders who thought the global rules-based order could be maintained through treaties and not armed force, according to a defence expert from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. “The big thing that…
by JURIS LAUCIS – WOMEN with plywood cut out rifles, preparing to resist 180,000 Russian troops and thousands of tanks, missiles and artillery amassed on the borders of Ukraine. The photo says it all. All the while the West assists the beleaguered…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE term “Davos Man” is a useful catch-all term to describe the recently emerged globalist ideologue, whether a politician or a captain of industry, associated with belief in a new world order and encompassing a strange fusion of…
