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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 …

Politics

While Chrenkoff Slept

December 21, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Back in September, while on the road in Europe, I reported on the welcome I was about to receive: With an impeccable timing, The Daily Chrenk will arrive in Warsaw …

Politics

December 1, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

PEARL HARBOR 2.0 – Is another world war in the Pacific about to start over the attempts to strangle the energy supply to a trouble-maker? U.S. Ambassador to the United …

Politics

On the way to Lubenia

September 12, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

With an impeccable timing, The Daily Chrenk will arrive in Warsaw only hours before one of the largest joint Russian-Belorussian military exercises directed against Poland and Lithuania is about to …

Politics

August 15, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

KIM JONG KARDASHIAN FOLDS, FOR NOW – I guess Guam can go back to worrying about climate change: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has decided not to launch a …

Politics

August 12, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

GUAM VERSUS CLIMATE CHANGE – A pretty silly, but inevitable, tweet from The New York Times: What’s a greater threat to Guam? North Korea, or climate change? https://t.co/bPuBrFULC5 — New …

Politics

Every mushroom cloud has a silver lining

August 10, 2017August 10, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Everything old is new again. Thanks to Kim (Jong Un, not Kardashian for a change), the millennials can now experience what it is like to live in the shadow of …

Politics

June 11, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

IT’S NOT TREASON WHEN THE LEFT DOES IT – Bradley Manning used to leak when it was still cool, i.e. when it merely damaged the United States as opposed to …