Category Archives: Current Affairs and Comment

Current Affairs and comment

Labour Day

Posted on September 2, 2019 by leslie

Labour Day  Mark Wegierski returns to class In Canada and the United States, the holiday honouring workers and the union movement is celebrated on the first Monday of September, as Labour Day, to avoid the radical connotations of May Day. … Continue reading →

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Deadly Rift between Dems and Israel

Posted on August 27, 2019 by leslie

Deadly Rift between Dems and Israel by Ilana Mercer “A toxic rift opens between Democrats and Israel,” blared a Washington Post headline. This, “after the nation refused entry to two members of Congress.” The two members are representatives Rashida Tlaib, … Continue reading →

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Color-Coded Theory

Posted on August 22, 2019 by leslie

Color-Coded Theory by Ilana Mercer A CNN profiler was speaking about the El Paso shooting, on August 6, in which 22 people were murdered by an angry white man. She blamed the killer’s sense of white privilege. Mass murder carried … Continue reading →

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Reform, in Name Only

Posted on August 17, 2019 by leslie

Reform, in Name Only Bill Hartley returns to prison Along with other departments, the Ministry of Justice was required by the coalition government to undertake budget cuts. Prisons were particularly hard hit and according to the Prison Governors Association there … Continue reading →

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Dem’s Dystopia

Posted on August 14, 2019 by leslie

Dem’s Dystopia by Ilana Mercer How does one distill the worldview of the Democrats vying for their party’s presidential nomination? Outrace each other on racial righteousness? End Anglo-America? Welcome the World? Evict the unborn? Speak Spanish; English is your second language? … Continue reading →

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Perfidious Albion

Posted on August 11, 2019 by leslie

Perfidious Albion The United States’ Entry into the First World War: the Role of British and German Diplomacy, Justin Quinn Olmstead, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2018, hb, 206 pp, reviewed by Leslie Jones In 1914, the majority of Americans wanted … Continue reading →

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Borders are Beautiful

Posted on July 29, 2019 by leslie

Borders are Beautiful by Ilana Mercer  In a previous post we posed the following question: “Do we still have a country, when every single passive, non-aggressive act taken to repel people crossing into our country is considered de facto illegal, or … Continue reading →

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Poland, in World War II

Posted on July 28, 2019 by leslie

Poland, in World War II by Mark Wegierski During the more than seven decades following the end of World War II, an ongoing stream of disinformation from various quarters e.g., the former Soviet Union and left-wing British circles, has clouded … Continue reading →

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Do We Still Have a Country?

Posted on July 26, 2019 by leslie

Do We Still Have a Country? by Ilana Mercer How do you know you don’t have a country? Simply this: Every single passive, non-aggressive act you take to repel people crossing your borders is considered de facto illegal, or inhumane, or in … Continue reading →

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Visiting the People’s Republic of Poland

Posted on July 22, 2019 by leslie

Visiting the People’s Republic of Poland by Mark Wegierski The founding date of the People’s Republic of Poland (Polish acronym: PRL) is considered to be July 22, 1944, when the so-called Lublin Manifesto was issued. The PRL in its foundation … Continue reading →

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