Will China invade Taiwan?
China’s President Xi Jinping promised over the weekend that “The historical task of the complete reunification of the…
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There’s a concerted effort to destroy the whistleblowers
A long time ago now I was asked to do a television series about the world’s intelligence services…
The Quad and the next cold war
Never mind AUKUS. It’s the Quad that counts. The creation of an Australia-United Kingdom-United States military alliance last…
Norway’s debates over oil and climate
You can see why Saudi Arabia wants to go on pumping as much oil as it can. Oil…
Making the case for auto-eugenics in US
Eugenics was a 20th-century pseudo-science that purported to improve the human breed by weeding out the ‘least fit,’…
Does inequality come with the size of U.S., China?
Never mind the destruction of the relatively free society of Hong Kong (no emergency airlift like Kabul, but…
Ethiopia could be following Yugoslavia’s lead
We have to deal with anyone who’s still shooting,” said Getachew Reda, spokesman for the Tigrayan forces, early…
Islamist ideology reaching a dead-end
Violent Islamist movements, as current events in Afghanistan demonstrate, have had some success in Muslim countries that have…
Recycled wars in an irrelevant Afghanistan
In the year 2000, five years after the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, nobody elsewhere cared what…
The conquest of Mexico: some history is inevitable
Friday the 13th is the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The capital of the Aztec…