by Viv Forbes, with help from friends (Oct. 30, 2023) — As net zero strangles Australian industry, Australia is becoming green, powerless and defenceless. History holds lessons which we ignore at our peril. Japan was opened to trade with the US in the 1850’s. They were daunted by the naval power of Britain and the […]
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Why Wait, Republicans? Impeach Biden Now
by Jeff Crouere, Ringside Politics, ©2023 (Apr. 16, 2023) — President Joe Biden spends too much time on vacation and not “working” for the American people. For example, he just returned from a four-day vacation in Ireland but has ignored the victims of the poisonous train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. In fact, Biden has […]
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Living in the Latter Days
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2022 (Nov. 1, 2022) — For centuries now, world power centres have been moving west – from Mongolia, to Europe, to Britain, to North America, and now Asia beckons. The Anglo/American Empire today resembles the decadent dying days of Rome. Europe is becoming a green energy wasteland, […]
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27 – The Cold War Era
by ProfDave, ©2022 (Jun. 23, 2022) — Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to the Cold War – a war in which there was very little fighting, but truly global hostility and ghastly risk such as the human race had never experienced before. Planet earth was in jeopardy of self-destruction. Some have suggested that this […]
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20 – The Rest of the World
by ProfDave, ©2022 (May 26, 2022) — [Editor’s Note: The following is the 20th in a series of world history lessons, converted to written form, by Prof. David Heughins. For previous articles in this series, please go here.] Time out! We are a month into our survey of modern World Civilization and we’ve hardly got […]
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10. A Thousand Years of China
by ProfDave, ©2022 (Apr. 7, 2022) — Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! I could hardly sleep last night for excitement! Today we are learning about Chinese history! China seems far away to us Westerners – and very alien, too. Sources can’t even agree on how to spell the names. But if this is going to […]
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9 – Three Big Ideas of Asian History
by ProfDave, ©2022 (Apr. 5, 2022) — [Editor’s Note: Please see the previous installments in this series here.] We are attempting to absorb the whole of Asian experience in the middle period of history, about 300 to 1500 AD – with flashbacks to centuries before the “Common Era.” If you are not on information overload, […]
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Into The Long Dark: San Francisco 2051
by Bob MacGuffie and Antony Stark (authors of The Seventh Crisis: www.seventhcrisis.com), ©2021 (Sep. 1, 2021) — It is a fact of life that human beings rapidly learn about the immutability of the nature of Time: The Past is unchangeable. The Present is constantly in flux. The Future is unknowable. However, while immutable, humans have […]
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We Appear to be a Doomed Nation
by Alan Bergstein, ©2021 (Aug. 24, 2021) — We are a leaderless nation. No, we are not the proverbial freight train heading for disaster. Worse. Rather we are a passenger loaded, well fueled, cockpit locked, pilot-less jetliner careening to earth. And few, contentedly watching TV in their buckled seats, seem to realize it. How is […]
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It Won’t Be Long Before We’re All Speaking Chinese
by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2021 (Jun. 13, 2021) — “The ICRC (International Red Cross) did not see Nazi Germany for what it was. Instead, the organization maintained the illusion that the Third Reich was a ‘regular partner,’ a state that occasionally violates laws, not unlike any army during World War II, occasionally using illegal […]
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Moral Decay Destroying America
by Bob Russell, ©2021 (May 2, 2021) — The biggest danger to the American way of life is not liberalism but the root philosophy of liberalism. That root philosophy is the false perspective that “moral relativism” and “secular humanism” should take precedence over the morality authored by Almighty God in the pages of the Holy […]
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Interview: JR Nyquist on the Threat of Communism Today
by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 21, 2021) — Last week, The Post & Email interviewed author Jeff (JR) Nyquist, who has closely studied Soviet and communist strategy, which incorporates calculated disinformation campaigns, and its impact on societies which are not well-versed in the ideology’s purpose and tactics. A prolific writer and student of history, military strategy, […]
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No Shame in Saying…With Trump Gone, the Alternative May Well be Hell!
January 20, 2021 Dear Editor, As long expressed in writing and orally, I have always been appalled by Donald Trump, the man, and even more so today! However, I now feel no shame in making the following points: For some 15 years now, those truly caring for world peace have, with great trepidation, watched as […]
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The Buffoon in the White House
“I GOT IT, YOU DON’T LIKE HIM” by Anonymous (Oct. 11, 2020) — The buffoon in the White House just brokered two Middle East Peace Accords, something that 71 years of political intervention and endless war failed to produce. The buffoon in the White House is the first president that has not engaged us in […]
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Trump Deserves Higher Honor than Nobel Prize
“PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH” by Jeff Crouere, ©2020 (Sep. 12, 2020) — For over one hundred years, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded. In that time, this honor has been viewed as the ultimate prize for any political leader. Recipients are supposed to be great diplomats who have brokered historic peace agreements. In contrast, the […]
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Japan’s Prime Minister Announces Resignation
CITING CHRONIC ILLNESS by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 28, 2020) — Japanese prime Minister Shinzo Abe, 65, is resigning his post for health reasons, he announced at a press conference on Friday afternoon. Abe is serving his second, non-consecutive term as prime minister, having been elected most recently in 2012. He reportedly suffers from ulcerative colitis […]
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The Greatest Protector
“OVER 75 YEARS OF DELIVERY FROM OPPRESSION” August 14, 2020 Dear Editor, With the massive help of democracy’s greatest protector – The United States of America – the free world has seen out Mao, Lenin, Stalin, Idi Amin, Milosavitch, Tojo, Mussolini, Hitler and Saddam Hussein. Yet today’s “ Left” said: “Talk to Iran and Syria […]
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The Military Wins Battles, Then Politicians Lose the War
LIVES SACRIFICED FOR FREEDOM WASTED BY POLITICAL COWARDICE by Bob Russell, ©2020 (Jul. 18, 2020) — The American military has never lost a war in our 244-year history but the 20th century saw wars lost after great military victories provided by brave men and women who risked, and thousands lost, their lives for the sake […]