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The Lies that Led to Invasion: Part 3 - De-NAZIFICATION
Are there white nationalists in Ukraine? Yes. Are there white nationalists in Australia? The UK? The USA? Russia? Also yes. And as...
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Carrick Ryan
- Jan 14
- 2 min
The Lies that Led to Invasion: Part 2 - "NATO Expansionism"
This is my second in a series debunking Kremlin disinformation justifying their invasion of Ukraine. "NATO pushed Russia to defend...
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Carrick Ryan
- Jan 14
- 2 min
The Lies that Led to Invasion: Part 1 - "The Genocide in Donbass"
This is the first in a series of posts addressing each of the lies presented by the Kremlin or its supporters to justify its invasion of...
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Carrick Ryan
- Aug 13, 2022
- 5 min
Is the Chinese economy about to collapse?
Earlier in the week I stated that the Chinese economy was "teetering on the edge of collapse". This surprised a few people and prompted...
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Carrick Ryan
- Jun 5, 2022
- 5 min
Will Australia be safe?
Whether or not you’re inclined to celebrate the fact, or lament it, American hegemony is over. This is not to suggest that the US is no...
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Carrick Ryan
- May 16, 2022
- 5 min
I don't fear a strong China, I fear a weakened China...
The term “Creative Destruction” refers to a concept of international economics which was initially identified by Austrian economist...
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Carrick Ryan
- Dec 13, 2021
- 4 min
Has Covid destroyed our Trust in Experts?
It started with a tweet. On 14 January 2020, as the World waited anxiously for news about the emerging virus in Wuhan, the World Health...
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Carrick Ryan
- Sep 16, 2021
- 4 min
Is the AUKUS Pact a good thing?
I want you to imagine a scenario: Australia and China are embroiled in yet another international dispute, but this one is getting nasty,...
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Carrick Ryan
- Sep 14, 2021
- 2 min
Recognising privilege is not surrendering it...
So I'm going to raise a subject that may seem odd for me to raise - privilege. If your first reaction is to roll your eyes, I get it....
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Carrick Ryan
- Mar 3, 2021
- 2 min
The Unsettling Reality of the Unknown
Whether or not you believed him, I believe that, in the absence of new evidence arising, he has done enough to save his job. There will...
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Carrick Ryan
- Mar 1, 2021
- 3 min
The Pursuit of Parliamentary Justice
I've held back commenting too much on the recent very serious allegations in Parliament for a number of reasons. To put it most simply,...
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Carrick Ryan
- Aug 30, 2019
- 4 min
In defence of Democracy
In 1989, as the Soviet Union crumbled, historian Francis Fukuyama now infamously proclaimed “the end of history”. His reasoning was that...
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Carrick Ryan
- May 8, 2019
- 3 min
The Cloak of Christianity
Yesterday, within the venerable halls of the NSW Parliament, One Nation’s Mark Latham gave his maiden speech as a NSW Member of...
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Carrick Ryan
- Mar 12, 2019
- 3 min
Yes you should still listen to Michael Jackson... even if he's a Pedo.
During the Holocaust, one of the many cruelties inflicted upon the unfortunate souls that found themselves within a Nazi Concentration...
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Carrick Ryan
- Feb 25, 2019
- 4 min
What Trump doesn't get about Kim.
Credit where credit’s due, there is something that Trump has right about North Korea. If the Hermit Kingdom was to suddenly declare peace...
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Carrick Ryan
- Feb 18, 2019
- 10 min
Trump/Russia for Dummies
It’s confusing, dynamic and has a perpetually shifting focus. So don’t feel bad if you’re struggling to keep up with the whole...
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Carrick Ryan
- Jan 30, 2019
- 4 min
"How is that racist?"
I am a white middle class man. I have never existed within the confines of an oppressed people. Whilst anyone could feasibly be racist or...
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Carrick Ryan
- Dec 8, 2018
- 4 min
What will become of us when the good times end?
The last 5 years have seen possibly the greatest existential crisis for progressive liberal democracy since the 1930s and the World War...
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Carrick Ryan
- Nov 4, 2018
- 3 min
What I learned from 5 weeks in India.
So after spending only 5 weeks travelling through India it would be fair to say I have not earned sufficient experience or insight to...
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Carrick Ryan
- Oct 29, 2018
- 5 min
An open letter to Americans from an Australian:Please fear Nationalism.
Hello America, I’m an Australian. Ever since the 2nd World War when you guys came to our shores to help us push back the Japanese (we...
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