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