Dr Chin Jin is a maverick, activist, campaigner, essayist, freelancer, researcher and organizer with the vision to foresee a new post-Chinese Communist regime era that will present more cooperatively, ...

Nigel Biggar CBE is Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Pusey House, Oxford. He holds a B.A. in Modern History from Oxford ...

Throughout the English-speaking world elites are falling over themselves to believe the very worst of their own countries. Let's consider Canada. In May 2021 an Indian band in Kamloops, British ...

The shockingly sudden fall of Assad in Syria should certainly prompt the US to intervene to help the new regime stabilize the country, which would serve not only the welfare and well-being of the ...

Mining magnates seem to have it all. Far more significant than royalty, such figures are the unelected captains of industry who know that governments will do whatever they can to accommodate their ...

The Saudi-based Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (HKOPS) to end 100 years of conflict between Arabs and Jews refuses to implode - despite the best efforts of the United Nations and world media ...

Being a Scottish sailor in the 1960's and 70's, I had more than a passing interest in fine looking ships, fine looking women especially in miniskirts, and the pursuit of propulsion power. For those ...

Energised electrons (electricity) are devout followers of the Laws of Nature; they do not bend to any ideology, fashion nor to any act of a parliament. Ideologies have to bend to the Laws of Nature ...

Hamas' horrific October 7 attack and Israel's massive retaliatory war have fundamentally changed the dynamic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. New political, psychological, and factual regional ...

This writer published a book some years ago Ending War which argued that war is an endemic aspect of human nature (with some convincing evidence). He asserts on another OLO blog, Do we have free will?

The realities of ASEAN as a regional political grouping are not encouraging. It could be argued that the stature of ASEAN has been on a downward trajectory, since the end of Thailan's Dr Surin ...