In response to a suicide bombing in Kashmir that killed 40 Indian troops last month, the Indian Air Force struck targets in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. I imagine that many readers around the world today would read that sentence the way that readers 105...
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What In The World Is Happening This Week?
Are you sick of Smollett? Fed up with fake news? Tired of tawdry tabloid trash? Well, you've come to the right place! Here are a number of interesting stories from around the world that you might have missed if you're only following the dinosaur media newsfeed. Find...
Victor’s Justice: The Truth About the International Criminal Court
As a well-known adage holds: "To the victor go the spoils." But it might well add: "Meanwhile, the losers go to the gallows." This is the logic of victor's justice. It is the logic of the Treaty of Versailles, which demanded unpayable reparations from the vanquished...
Episode 353 – The Crisis of Science
In recent years, the public has gradually discovered that there is a crisis in science. But what is the problem? And how bad is it, really? Today on The Corbett Report we shine a spotlight on the series of interrelated crises that are exposing the way institutional...
Why Technocrats LOVE The “Green New Deal”
You may have seen "Students Love Green New Deal... Until Hearing What's In It" by now, but if not you probably get the gist just from the title. Yes, it's one of those "man on the street" interview videos where random college students are asked whether they support...
Fake News: Economics Edition
Just when you thought "fake news" was only about those dastardly Russians hiding under every bed, Japan comes out and admits that 40% of its economic data is bogus. That's right, a report from Japan's Internal Affairs Ministry this week reveals that 22 of the 56 key...
Has the Chinese Dragon Been Tamed?
Chinese President-for-Life Xi Jinping is warning that the glorious Communist Party of China (CPC) "is facing long-term and complex tests in terms of maintaining long-term rule, reform and opening-up, a market-driven economy, and within the external environment." Or at...
Know Your Enemy: The Royal Institute of International Affairs
Readers of this column will know all about the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) by now. The CFR's influence in setting Washington's foreign policy agenda was once derided as “conspiracy theory." But, as is often the case, that "conspiracy theory" is now a simple...