The great Chinese take away
“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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Russia tries to normalise Ribbentrop-Molotov
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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One such day
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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The survival of the unfittest
Meet the potential new European Union boss, Frau Merkel’s twin: A polyglot Brussels native who reared seven children and earned a medical degree on the side before storming to the …
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Who’s afraid of the big bad tank?
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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Dire Straits of Hormuz
What if Iran wanted to provoke a war and nobody came? A growing consensus among smart people* seems to be that Donald Trump should not let himself be drawn into …
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Monte Cassino, great-grandfather and a bear
On May 18, the day Australia goes to the polls, on the other side of the world we will be commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of the bloodiest …
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Was Polish American revolutionary hero a heroine?
Pulaski Day, when the Polish-American community celebrates their Polish-Americaness annually and named after a Polish general who had died at Savannah in 1779, might have to be soon renamed Pulaska …
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The End of the Caliphate
It seems to be over: The caliphate has crumbled, and the final offensive is over. While the official announcement hasn’t yet been made – Fox News has been told that …
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Climate strike? How about nuclear first strike?
Another day, another mass walk-out from schools around the world, including throughout Australia, by children protesting about their elders’ inaction in the face of a climatic calamity that’s set to …
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20 Best Books I’ve Read in 2018
Happy New Year to The Daily Chrenk readers. If 2018 sucked for you, as it did for many people I know, keep marching on, onward and upward; if it was …
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Don’t throw the Kurds with the Baath water
One thing about Trump – he is consistent in his policies, or perhaps better call them political instincts. If not strictly speaking an isolationist, Trump has always believed that the …
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Everybody is kung fu fighting
A good summary of the state of play as at the end of the APEC meeting in PNG, from Paul Kelly: In a major bonus for the Morrison government, the …
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Macron-omics of a new European Empire
I don’t often sympathise with Donald Trump, but when I do it’s when he travels to Europe to meet with the motley crew of what passes as the continent’s best …
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“Guardian”: Army is a far-right institution
As they say, so much “Guardian”: In some respects, the UK military – the institution, rather than the people – is itself a far-right organisation. On one hand it is …
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Welcome to Fort Trump?
The dream of an US military base in Poland seems one step closer to reality: President Donald Trump said the U.S. is considering a permanent military presence in Poland, something the Eastern European …
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The Polish Enigma
Dermot Turing, the nephew of the famous code breaker and one of the fathers of the computer, Alan (“The Imitation Game”, pretty good movie) writes about a very little known …
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What on Earth is a Kalashnikov electric car?
I know there is Christmas in July, but is there an April Fools’ Day in August? Russian arms maker Kalashnikov on Thursday presented its new electric car inspired by a …
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Ramsey Bolton becomes a Polish pilot
For the sake of the movie I hope that Iwan Rheon who played the arch-bastard (literally and metaphorically) Ramsey Bolton in “Game of Thrones” is good enough actor to go …
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