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?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But the industrial revolution in terms of ship design, driven largely by the Scots with coal fired steam propulsion via paddles on wooden ships, then propellors, then steel ships became competitive by ...

The challenges the US faces are widespread and multifaceted, including: The difficulties of communicating with a government splintered ideologically by several rebel factions;How and when to remove US ...

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 ...

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 ...