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Jan 6
5 min

The Twilight of Revolution

The Arab Spring ten years on reveals the meat-hook realities beyond revolutionary slogans.

Dec 9, 2020
4 min

Be Wary the Revolution

George Washington led an army in a successful colonial revolt, but he was no radical. The man was about as establishment as you get.

Dec 2, 2020
5 min

The Rise of Op-Ed Intelligence

Still, the culture of America’s 17 intelligence agencies is hardwired for the cloak and dagger – even among themselves.

Nov 24, 2020
5 min

One of Those Marriages

On the gulf’s east bank sits Iran, baring its teeth at Saudi Arabia and doing a fair job of conquest-by-internal-rot of Iraq.

Nov 5, 2020
4 min

I've Never Been to Katmandu (Part II)

In retrospect, taking a swat at airport security was an idiotic thing to do but my conscious mind hadn’t thought about it. I'd just done it.

Oct 29, 2020
5 min

I've Never Been to Katmandu (part 1)

Excerpted from Pothole of the Gods (Burnaby) “Run and find out.” Motto of all the Mongoose family Rudyard Kipling Rikki-tikki-tavi Novemb...

Oct 1, 2020
2 min

Weapons Grade Elvis

I asked Jesse about one Paul MacLeod. He knew who I was talking about... “That guy,” Jesse said into his beer. “That guy went overboard.”

Aug 28, 2020
4 min

Machiavellian, But Not In a Bad Way

Dubai stands out between on the Persian Gulf like an air-conditioned glob of Kardashian on the edge of a baking, austere peninsula.

Feb 4, 2020
3 min

Drinking Lebanese Beer in Iraq

Iraq's Shi'a south looks like you think it will unless you haven't watched the news for a decade. Then it's hard to explain.

Jan 31, 2020
3 min

HMS Brexit Needs to Sail For Singapore

Britain sails out of the EU today, it can pursue classic liberalism, that green and pleasant land will outpace the EU in a generation.

Jan 7, 2020
5 min

We Aren't Going to War With Iran

Whatever it is that Iran can do to us, they’re already doing it.

Dec 20, 2019
7 min

Terrible Political Jokes in Ukraine

When politics is a blood sport, the jokes just keep getting worse.

Nov 22, 2019
5 min

A War of Bad, Abstract Ideas

John Bolton and his mustache want to go to war with Iran. We should resist the urge.

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