Whatever one’s political persuasion, War and Democracy will be instructive, even if only to inform the antagonistic reader as to what the “real Right” actually is …
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation continues to be one of the major forces against opposition to globalization, and its concomitant bastardization of national cultures, by what Stalinists called…
It seems enigmatic that China would now make such a provocative gesture when it is attempting to show its commitment to being a player for stability in the region…
What motivated an Egyptian-born Coptic Christian, “Sam Bacile,” (real name Nakoula Basseley Nakoula) to make a film that was guaranteed to inflame Muslims across the world?…
India’s first domestically constructed nuclear submarine capable of firing ballistic missiles is about to be launched. It is part of a program to make India a major military power in…
New Zealanders and Australian owe the USA nothing, and the sentimental attachment many New Zealanders have towards the USA for supposedly being our “Big Brother” when threatened by illusionary foreign…
The death of Vaclav Havel on December 18, 2011, last president of Czechoslovakia and first president of the Czech Republic, has brought accolades from media pundits and political and plutocratic…
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is an important part of the globalization process that has been decades in the making. The process was formalized on November 12, 2011. While a “Pacific…
In 1993, Joel Hayward completed an MA thesis on the literature of holocaust revisionism. Hayward was of Jewish descent, was a member of the New Zealand Friends of Israel, and…
Despite the focus of the mass media on (mostly theoretical) rivalry between the USA and China, and the rapport in recent years between China and Russia through a Central Asian…
The news media has had a field day in headlining Anders Breivik’s actions as those of someone from the “far Right,” and as actions that are a consequence of Rightist…
In the midst of the Christchurch, New Zealand, earthquake in February 2011, a group of young Israelis, caught up in the destruction, made a quick exit back to their homeland,…
It is no longer necessary to hypothesize about the purpose of the “velvet revolutions” in North Africa and adjacent states: they are already following the same path as those manufactured…
In the West, regimes are judged according to their proximity to parliamentary democracy, which in particular entails regular elections. No matter how sound a regime, how committed its leaders, or…
There are few states remaining that have remained free from the international oligarchy. One of these is Uzbekistan, whose rejection of involvement with international financial institutions and maintenance of a…
It seems clear now that whenever a regime is damned as repressive by “world opinion” then it is being marked for “regime change” in the interests of global capitalism. One…
It has been the contention of this writer since the 1980s that Russia and China are fundamental rivals, regardless of pragmatic alliances. The “fraternal” relations that supposedly existed between two…
“When the history of Russian justice is written fifty years from now, two landmark court cases will stand out: The death sentence of Nikolai Bukharin in his Moscow show trial…
“…he is a good-for-nothing-man [who] simply betrayed his people…” When the news media touts an individual as a great human being, one should immediately become cynical. When Hollywood touts an…
Crisis scenarios are the means by which dictators justify control. The most often cited example is Hitler’s “Enabling Act” in the wake of the Reichstag Fire. Another example is the…
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