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COVID-2019 and Its Effect on the Indo-Pacific Region

June 29, 2020 Opinion

For now, many countries worldwide are still under siege from the Coronavirus, threatening millions of lives. However, it is leaving a much different mark, for instance, in the Indo-Pacific Region. Eve…

Clash of Civilizations 2.0 Sponsored by Prince and Bannon

April 30, 2019 Opinion

Bannon, Prince, and other far-rightists are now attempting to impose on their followers and fellow-travelers the same sort of “groupthink” Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels applied to Germany. …

Balkan History Didn’t Inspire the Christchurch Terrorist Attack

March 30, 2019 Opinion

A deliberately deceptive effort was made to connect the Christchurch terrorist attack to Balkan history. The Australian terrorist meticulously scrawled the names of many Balkan figures, battles, and s…

Hindutva and Fascist White Nationalism: A Match Made in Hell

March 21, 2019 Opinion

In 2011, the fascist Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb in central Oslo before travelling to Utøya island where he opened fire on children on a camping holiday. Overall, Breiv…

Christchurch Revisited

March 21, 2019 Opinion

You don’t have to be a white nationalist to commit a mass murder in the house of worship like the one in Christchurch, though if you only read mainstream media you’ll probably think of their unique de…

Who Spawned the Christchurch Killer?

March 20, 2019 Opinion

Last Friday, in Christchurch, New Zealand, one of the more civilized places on earth, 28-year-old Brenton Tarrant, an Australian, turned on his cellphone camera and set out to livestream his massacre …

Trump Supporters in Denial over New Zealand Massacre

March 20, 2019 Opinion

US President Donald Trump condemned the New Zealand massacre of 50 people by a self-declared white fascist as “horrible”. In an ambiguous choice of words, Trump said he sent his “warmest sympathies” t…

The Christchurch Terrorist Attack, The “Deep State”, & The “Clash of Civilizations”

March 19, 2019 Opinion

At least 50 people were killed in one of the West’s worst terrorist attacks when an Australian opened fire on worshippers in two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch, with the killer appare…