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July 8, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THERE IS A SIMPLE SOLUTION FOR THAT – The allies are worried: After 18 months of Donald Trump’s “America First” presidency, European leaders meeting with him next week fear the …

Politics

June 14, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

ANZACS AND THEIR SWASTIKAS – The crack ABC investigative team unearths a photo of an episode from 2007, which has been subsequently dealt with by the command: Australian soldiers have …

Politics

May 29, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MR PRESIDENT – take a break from Twitter. Trump is getting rightly hammered for his Memorial Day tweet where he conscripted the dead to cheer …

Politics

May 4, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

NOT FLYING HIGH IN AFGHANISTAN – It will take a long time for those sorts of attitudes to change: Afghanistan’s first female pilot has been granted asylum in the US after …

Politics

May 1, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

IRAN LIED, NO ONE DIED (YET) – Perhaps more interesting than the content of the treasure trove of secret nuclear documents from Iran is how the Israeli intelligence managed to …

Politics

April 25, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

DEVENY DOUBLES DOWN – What’s the best way to follow up your Anzac Day eve tweets in which you insult past and present servicemen and women, ridicule the risks they have …

Life

ANZAC Day repost: Dreams from my Grandfather at the Bridge Too Far

April 25, 2018April 25, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Note: I have originally published this long post a year and a half ago, and since then it has become one of my and my readers’ favourite TDC stories. Today …

Politics

Happy Anzac Day from Catherine Deveny

April 24, 2018April 24, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

With Yassmin Abdel-Maghied currently overseas, someone has to step in stir the ANZAC pot: Why do people in the armed forces use the word 'serve' to describe their work despite …

Politics

April 23, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

SURPRISE, SURPRISE – Item 1: The chief of US Fleet Forces Command has told US Congress that Beijing has built up enough military infrastructure in the South China Sea to …

Politics

April 14, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

“GOOD SOULS WILL NOT BE HUMILIATED”– So tweets Syria’s dictator Bashar al-Assad after the United States, Great Britain and France started dropping some heavy ordinance in and around Damascus. Though …

Politics

Syria: There is no happy endings

April 12, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The world stands poised on the edge of an abyss, just a few wrong moves away from another world war, all over a large and unattractive expanse of sand on …

Politics

March 11, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

IN WHICH THE DAILY CHRENK LINKS TO THE WORLD SOCIALIST WEBSITE – With all the caveats – yes, it’s the commos, and yes, the commos shouldn’t be relied on accurate …

Politics

March 7, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

HOW MEDIA TRIVIALISES NEWS, PART 836 – Good news from the Korean peninsula: The secretive state could also impose a ban on further nuclear and missile tests during talks with …

Politics

March 6, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

GOOD MORNING VIETNAM – What the rise of China has wrought: In Vietnam’s capital Hanoi there are lots of museums about past wars the Vietnamese have fought, including against the …

Politics

Tanks on the streets

February 8, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Trump sure as hell knows how to stir up the left: President Trump has asked the Pentagon to explore holding “a celebration” for Americans to show their appreciation for the armed …

Politics

January 27, 2018January 27, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

SORRY, NO WEHRMACHT; WE’RE GERMAN – Postcards from pacifism: For the largest economy in Europe, Germany’s military — the Bundeswehr — sure is small. In fact, although smaller missions, like …

Happiness / Life / Politics

January 18, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

WHAT TO DO AFTER APOCALYPSE POSTPONED – 1. Kiss my lowed ones. 2. Call my friends. 3. Pray thanksgiving. 4. Walk outside and hug a stranger. 5. Nah, scrap all …

Culture / Politics

January 16, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I WASN’T PLANNING ON SEEING “PITCH PERFECT 3” – Until I read this: There was no discernible reason for this film to be set on military bases… From top to …

Politics

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

January 6, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I HEART MATTIS – The man is a legend and a badass. I hope we will never find out how good a wartime Defence Secretary he can be, but war …