A Personal Comment on Syria
Setting aside the question of evidence, there’s a serious problem with the contention that Syria carried out the recent chemical attack in Douma. It requires...
Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? | Jesse McCarthy at The Point
In this marvellous essay, Jesse McCarthy puzzles over why there is "a bloody knot in the social fabric that is as vivid in Ferguson, Missouri...
Turnbull
Following David's excellent post on the NBN, a somewhat related aside. Malcolm Turnbull was interviewed on AM yesterday about the NBN review, followed by a...
Don’t isolate Russia | Tom Switzer
Putin currently graces the cover of Time, Newsweek, Der Spiegel and The Economist, together with a host of lesser publications. Always unfavourably of course, with...
Lord Salisbury’s Lessons for Great Powers
The noise and drama surrounding Putin, Russia and the Ukraine obscure crucial foreign policy principles. In "Lord Salisbury's Lessons for Great Powers", Robert Merry takes...
‘The mind . . . in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven’
Remarkable article about how our social experience and the way we come to frame our lives influences gene-expression. I would’ve bet my eyeteeth that we’d...
Appeal to General Dempsey | Consortiumnews
MEMORANDUM FOR: General Martin Dempsey, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity [1] SUBJECT: Syria and Our Oath to Defend the...