Politics & Army

Yuri Chekalin18.10.2022

Pyongyang’s nuclear capability is increasing, but international capacity or interest in dealing with them is limited. The details vary, but the picture is immediately recognizable: a salvo of missiles followed by chilling new rhetoric. This time, North Korean state media claimed that the recent flurry of tests simulated strikes against targets in South Korea and […]

Igor Koroteev28.06.2022

Japan’s participation in World War II is still not well understood. Perhaps because the pre-war policy of the Land of the Rising Sun was distinguished by complex turns and inconsistencies. By the 1930s, the Meiji Revolution had come to its end: an acute shortage of markets, a difficult economic situation due to the Great Depression. […]

Mark Tasker16.07.2020

Yuriko Koike was elected for a second term as Tokyo Governor on the 5th of July under the strangest of circumstances. Whether you see it as fortuitous timing, adept media management, or skillful political manipulation will depend greatly on your political leanings, but one thing is for sure — there was only one candidate in […]

William S. Smith24.05.2020

Fittingly, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was founded by a grandnephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte, during the Progressive Era. Bonaparte was a Harvard-educated crusader. As the FBI’s official history states, “Many progressives, including (Teddy) Roosevelt, believed that the federal government’s guiding hand was necessary to foster justice in an industrial […]

Yuri Chekalin22.05.2020

After World War II, Japan imported all kinds of ideas from America. One of them was that “a bread diet is better for health.” At that time, it was widely advertised that eating rice makes people stupid. Here is what the Japanese scholars then claimed, supported even by the Japanese government: “The nature of those […]

Tony Cormy11.05.2020

For 20 years, Australia had existed comfortably in a fog of delusion. Successive governments and most Australians convinced themselves that the emerging world order was one in which they could do pretty well. Our great and powerful friend the United States would provide strategic defence, just as it had since World War II. America was […]

Roger Kimball03.05.2020

Among other things, the case of Gen. Michael Flynn reminds us of the old adage that things are always worse than you think. Right from the beginning of the attempted coup some of us took to calling ‘the Russian Collusion Delusion’, it was clear that the hounding of President Trump and various aides and supporters […]

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Politics & Army

Armageddon and North Korea

Pre-war Japan, or zigzags on the road to war

Koike 2020: Masking a disaster

FBI and Flynn’s Case

Does rice make people stupid?

Pandemic: the US and Australia

The Flynn Case Is a Travesty

Tokyo Rose of Russia

Federal Rescuers Didn’t Help Households With Trump Posters

There Was a Woman in the Beginning

Guilty Without Actual Guilt