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Les Macdonald

Pearls and Irritations

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Moral inadequacy in national leadership

04.11.2025 10

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The West’s crucial strategic failures

13.10.2025 10

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The fish rots from the head

26.09.2025 10

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Antisemitism and abuse of power

16.07.2025 10

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The evil phoenix: Quenching the fire of its rebirth

18.06.2025 10

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US unlikely to be able to hold its own against China

09.06.2025 10

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Trump's second term is taking the US back to the bad old days

27.05.2025 10

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The American Dream

04.05.2025 10

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The West and inconvenient memory: The destruction of history

“Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past and...

03.04.2025 5

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The West’s ‘international community’ and the other 85% of humanity

18.03.2025 9

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Who’s who in the war business

13.03.2025 10

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Trade and tariffs: Reality and fantasy

10.03.2025 10

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Caligula’s horse and Washington

16.02.2025 10

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America and the forgotten memento mori (remember you are mortal)

08.02.2025 10

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Antisemitism as a morally repugnant excuse for genocide

06.02.2025 8

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Humpty Dumpty and the Rules Based International Order

19.01.2025 10

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The Hannibal Directive and mainstream media’s organised forgetting

Aeschylus (525-456BC) was, as current circumstances in the Middle East and in Ukraine amply demonstrate, entirely accurate when he observed that...

03.01.2025 7

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Western Media: an echo chamber for the US “Uighur Genocide” narrative

Let me directly address the narrative pushed by the United States and its allies regarding the alleged “genocide” of Uighurs in China’s Xinjiang...

20.12.2024 7

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