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March 18, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

BABY, IT’S COLD WAR OUTSIDE – It’s one of the encouraging signs over the last year or two that the media and the opinion-making classes are finally waking up to …

Politics

March 7, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH ALL THE LENINS? – Good news from Ukraine: Ukraine has removed all 1,320 statues of the communist revolutionary Lenin following a government drive to rid the …

Politics

March 7, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

WASHINGTON POST: “IT’S TIME TO GIVE SOCIALISM A TRY” – No, really: Bruening, who looks 12, is not some random who got lucky, but an opinion writer on the staff …

Politics

March 5, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

MARCH 5 – Sometimes history is like that. On 5 March 1940, Stalin signs an order to murder 22,000 members of the Polish elites, including Army officers taken as prisoners …

Politics

March 3, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

REGRETS, I’VE HAD A FEW – Putin regrets: Russian President Vladimir Putin says he would reverse the collapse of the Soviet Union if he had a chance to alter modern …

Politics

Happy birthday Karl Marx! Love, the EU

March 1, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The man, whose misguided ideas led to a bloodbath and widespread misery in the twentieth century, will soon be celebrating his 200th birthday. And so will be the European Union: …

Politics

February 28, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

NOTHING TO DO WITH MARX – Judging by this NPR interview with the director Raoul Peck, “Young Karl Marx” (just like “Young Frankenstein” but not funny) is going to be …

Politics

February 22, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

TRY THE NEW MIRACLE CARACAS DIET! – Venezuelans reported losing on average 11 kilograms (24 lbs) in body weight last year and almost 90 percent now live in poverty, according …

Politics

February 20, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

NUCLEAR WINTER OLYMPICS, CONT. – You too would be cheering your heart out and playing to win: It’s from “The Sun” but it’s true. Indulging dictators in international forums is …

Politics

February 18, 2018February 18, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

CZECH MATE – The spy who came from Islington North: Jeremy Corbyn was a paid informant of the Czech secret police at the height of the Cold War, a former …

Politics

February 15, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

AUSTRALIA WINS GOLD AT THE WINTER OLYMPICS – Not with any competitor; with a Kim-lookalike: #EXCLUSIVE: Kochie & Sam chat with the Kim Jong Un lookalike who’s been trolling the …

Politics

February 12, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

NUCLEAR WINTER GAMES, CONT. – The American media wins gold for fawning over a totalitarian nightmare (thanks to the wonderful T Becket Adams who trawled through the sewage to come up …

Politics

February 11, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

NUCLEAR WINTER OLYMPICS – CNN hearts She-Kim: Kim Jong Un's sister is stealing the show at the Winter Olympics https://t.co/ian9ZiurVm pic.twitter.com/fBXuFEyXAj — CNN International (@cnni) February 10, 2018 If “diplomatic …

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January 15, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

IT’S ALL OUR FAULT – It always is: We've got to understand that North Korea is holding onto these nuclear weapons because they think it is their only protection from …

Politics

Talking straight about shithole countries

January 12, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Trump is in trouble for using unpresidential and undiplomatic but very Trumpian language: President Trump on Thursday balked at an immigration deal that would include protections for people from Haiti …

Politics

January 10, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

DISPLEASING TSAR VALDIMIR – In the post-Soviet Russia, it’s not the leaders whose sanity is questioned, but those who question the leaders: A Russian historian whose exposure of Soviet leader …

Politics

Anti-FaComIS

January 7, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Yesterday, on my morning walk through my quiet and semi-leafy neighbourhood of Wooloowin, in the outer inner north of Brisbane, Australia, I was confronted by an unexpected sight. Overnight, someone …

Politics

January 3, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

FIFTY SHADES OF KIM – Good news from North Korea: The light-grey suit and matching tie that North Korea’s Kim Jong Un donned for his New Year’s address was likely …

Culture / Politics

Do They Know It’s Christmas?

December 31, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

A lifetime ago, a charity single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” by Band Aid made the UK recording history. Released on 3 December 1984, by the last day of the …

Politics

December 29, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

GUARDIAN’S “UTOPIAN THINKING” – Abi wants your money: Step 1: Work your whole life, with the government taking a large proportion of your earnings and spending most of it to fund welfare and other …