Mark Collins – Easter Lahore Horror: Racial Plus Religious Intolerance

Tarek Fatah adds background to the massacre (keep in mind that in the subcontinent generally the higher one’s status the lighter one’s skin colour tends to be–whether Hindu or Mus…

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Mark Collins – Canadian Defence Review: CDA Institute Analyses

Further to this post, “A letter to the New [Canadian] Minister of National Defence on the Defence Policy Review” two pieces at the Conference of Defence Associations Institute (via e-mail): ……

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Mark Collins – South China Sea and International Law: China, US and Australia

Further to these posts, The Asian Maritime Cockpit, Eagle vs Dragon Section [note links at end] The Asian Maritime Cockpit: The Dragon, the US Navy and the South China Sea excerpts from a major art…

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Mark Collins – The EU and a Case For Brexit

Excerpts from a swingeing post at The Gods of the Copybook Headings blog: Major Reservations Guess who’s still alive? …even our more generous readers will be inclined to heavily discoun…

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Mark Collins – Bombardier Airframe for New USAF ISR Plane? Part 2

Further to this June 2015 post, the bombardier airframe is still in the running: Raytheon and Northrop contracted for JSTARS radar battle The US Air Force has locked in Raytheon and Northrop Grumma…

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Mark Collins – The World Needs More Canada: US/China Relations Cloud Cuckoo Land

The fellow who wrote this piece in the Globe and Mail of arrant Canadian self-importance does not even mention the South China Sea as a major problem between the Eagle and the Dragon: Canada could …

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Mark Collins – Fissiparous Libya, Bleeding Yemen Updates

West and others covertly into Libya whilst the Yemeni hell-hole burns: 1) SAS deployed in Libya since start of year, says leaked memo [US Congress]: King Abdullah of Jordan indicates US was briefed…

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Mark Collins – Cyber Espionage vs US Defence Industry: Chinese Resident of Canada Pleads Guilty

Further to this post, Dragon Arrests Canadian: Retaliation for Our Help vs Chinese Spooking Against US? it rather looks like the defendant cut a couple of deals, perhaps including being able eventu…

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Mark Collins – Bombardier Says Doesn’t Need Federal Bailout

Further to this post (and “Comments”), Bombardier Giving Planes Away as Ottawa Bailout Looks Inevitable it still sounds very much as if Ottawa plans to cough up the US$ one billion the …

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Mark Collins – “Tout n’est pas pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles”

And history sure hasn’t ended. The conclusion of an acerbic piece by former British ambassador Charles Crawford: Arise, Illiberal Democracy … For most of my lifetime the main intellectu…

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