Reading Time: 3 minutes Conventional wisdom, especially when its purveyors have a moralistic bent, is a precarious guide to reality
Category: World
The US Civil War ended 150 years ago this month
Reading Time: 3 minutes The number of related military deaths easily surpassed the combined total of American fatalities from both World Wars
Moral waters of war with ISIS getting murky
Reading Time: 3 minutes Without a concrete plan beyond airstrikes, we could find ourselves mired in war for years to come
Democratic presidents and the trouble with Russia
Reading Time: 3 minutes A little humility would have served Roosevelt, Kennedy and Obama well when dealing with Russia
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank a study in oppression
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Harper government takes a principled stand against China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Could the Cold War have been avoided if Roosevelt had lived?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Stalin’s habit of doing precisely what he could get away with made the Cold War inevitable
Greek government helping the rich, not ordinary Greeks
Reading Time: 3 minutes The left-wing Syriza party is protecting a haven for the privileged
Anti-terrorism Act aimed squarely at violent Islamic jihadi terrorists
Reading Time: 4 minutes Bill C-51 explicitly states that it is not concerned with “lawful advocacy, protest, dissent, and artistic expression”
Has Russia reached a turning point?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Putin has maintained his iron grip on Russia by being the most ruthless in a sea of gangsters
Keystone veto all about retaining presidential authority
Reading Time: 4 minutes The only meaningful decision pits one U.S. agency – the EPA – against another – the State Department