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Politics

From socialism and terrorism to feces and urine

November 13, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

If you thought that the streets of San Francisco drowning in human excrement were bad enough and a disincentive to visit, you’ve seen – and smelled – nothing yet, as …

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Politics

The left – always getting the walls wrong

November 10, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Yesterday we remembered the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Everyone, including The Daily Chrenk, has been excited about it, and now Italy’s Democratic Party is joining …

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History / Politics

Where were you when the walls came crashing down

November 9, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It was a Thursday. I couldn’t remember but just checked it, thanks to the magic of the Internet – something that certainly did not exist in its current omnipresent form …

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Politics

The Ys are a lost cause but with the Zs there is hope

October 29, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Another year, another annual survey on American attitudes towards socialism, communism and collectivism, conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. I blogged previously about the …

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Politics

China – not quite 70 for 70

October 1, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

People’s Republic of China is today celebrating 70 years of existence. On this day in 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the new state at the Tiananmen Square in …

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Books / History / Politics

Before there was Trump, there was Joe McCarthy

September 30, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I’ve been reading M Stanton Evans’s excellent and scholarly “Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies” (published some 12 years ago) …

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Politics

Why the children’s crusades

September 24, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Question asked: Does anyone else find it strange that the allegedly scientific "climate change" movement is being led by a 16-year-old girl and justifying its public policies on the homework …

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History / Politics

The Fourth Partition

September 17, 2019September 17, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It’s 2019, so over the next few years we will commemorate a number of 80th anniversaries connected with the Second World War. British people will be reminded of their darkest …

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Politics

In Liu of answers

September 12, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I don’t know Gladys Liu from a bar of soap, so I have no idea whether she’s got any compromising relationship with the Chinese communist authorities and their numerous overseas …

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History

The two “what if”s of September 1939

September 1, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Eighty years ago, Germany invaded Poland from the west, the north and the south, starting World War Two. Seventeen days later. the Soviet Union invaded from the east, completing the …

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Politics

Don’t ban the sickle, hammer the wearers

August 28, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Should red stars, hammers-and-sickles and other communist symbols be banned by retailers? Lithuania thinks so: Lithuania has urged American online retailer Amazon to stop selling clothing featuring the hammer and …

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Politics

The great Chinese take away

August 27, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

“The Atlantic” has a very long and a very good article about the Chinese espionage in America (you can imagine the situation is not dissimilar in other countries of interest): Donald …

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History / Politics

Russia tries to normalise Ribbentrop-Molotov

August 25, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The other day the world (mostly Eastern Europe and a few history buffs) remembered to 80th anniversary of the signing in Moscow of the infamous Ribbentrop-Molotov non-aggression pact between the …

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Politics

There is no Monopoly like a Socialist Monopoly

August 23, 2019August 23, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I confess I never really got into “Monopoly”. The game struck me as long and tedious and teaching the wrong messages about the economy. Or maybe it was just my …

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Politics

Honk for Honkers

August 19, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

When I visited Hong Kong three years ago, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge was still under construction, with pylons lined up along the existing road from the airport to the city still …

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Politics

China – a friend or a fowl?

August 8, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Liberal MP Andrew Hastie, an ex-soldier who currently happens to be the chair of the parliamentary intelligence committee, has created a bit of a stir when he compared the rise …

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History

One such day

August 1, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Seventy-five years ago, late afternoon on 1 August 1944, the biggest single act of resistance in the Nazi occupied Europe commenced in Warsaw. The Uprising was to last two month, …

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Politics

Socialism and crystal energy

July 11, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Jessica Roy at “LA Times” writes an interesting piece on “How millennials replaced religion with astrology and crystals”. To be fair to Gen Ys, they are of course not the …

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Politics

Who’s afraid of the big bad tank?

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Donald Trump has brought tanks into Washington DC for the 4th of July celebrations and people are going nuts. None nuttier than a Harvard academic and a former Clinton man, …

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History / Politics

What Trotsky’s granddaughter said

June 12, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

In one of those cruel strokes of fate, all of Leon Trotsky’s four children predeceased him, even if many would not feel any compassion for one of the fathers of …

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