An anthology of posts In That Howling Infinite addressing issues political. They do so in a vein that Bob Dylan captures perfectly in his song of the same title.

We live in a political world
Love don’t have any place
We’re living in times
Where men commit crimes
And crime don’t have any face

We live in a political world
The one we can see and feel
But there’s no one to check
It’s all a stacked deck
We all know for sure that it’s real

Australia

• Outside Looking In
• Conservatism in Crisis
• We’ve Got The Australia Day Blues
• Western Civilization – The long, dark teatime of The Australian’s soul
• The Oz’s lonely crusade For western civilization
• Milo downunder
• Free Speech, One Each! 
• The Frontier Wars – Australia’s heart of darkness
• How the Lucky Country lost its mojo
• Australia’s choice – survive by respect or die by stupid
• Arguments of Monumental Proportions 
• The agony and extinction of Blinky Bill 
• Silencing The Voice – the Anatomy of a No voter
• Hopes and fears – the morning after the referendum for The Voice
• The Uluru Statement from the Heart
• A Voice crying in the wilderness
• We oughtn’t to fear an Indigenous Voice – but we do
• Warrior woman – the trials and triumphs of Marcia Langton
• If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken … the emptiness of “No”

The Middle East

• Pity the Nation
• Islam’s house of many mansions
• Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion
• Rojava and the Kurdish conundrum
• Children of the Revolution
• The ghosts of Gandamak
• Messing with the Mullahs – America’s phoney war?
• Bob Dylan’s 115th dream – a Jerusalem reverie
• Nowhere man – the lonesome death of Mohammed Morsi
• Sawt al Hurriya – Egypt’s slow-burning fuse
• Sawt al Hurriya – remembering the Arab Spring
• Paradise Lost – Kashmir’s bitter legacy  
• The devil drives
• One, two, three, what are we fighting for?
• The Man with the Plan 
• The Deal of the Century is designed to fail
• Clouded Vision – no peace, no plan, no Palestine, no point
• Tangled! – a cynic’s guide to alliances in the Middle East
• Tangled 2 – Libya’s bloody circus rolls on 
• Facing the music – no partying in Palestine
• Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow – judgement in Kabul 
• Educate a girl and you educate a community – exclude her and you impoverish it 
• David Kilcullen’s 2021 wrap up – a weak US emboldens its rivals \
• “Because of …” Iran’s voice of freedom
• The calculus of carnage – the mathematics of Muslim on Muslim mortality  
• “You want it darker?” … Gaza and the devil that never went away …
• Total war in an urban landscape – Israel’s military quandary
• The flight into Egypt … a modern riff on an old tale 
• How the jihadi tail wags the leftist dog 
• Lebensraum Redux – Hamas’ promise of the hereafter
• A Messiah is needed – so that he will not come. 
• Syria. Illusion, delusion and the fall of tyrants
• Why Osama bin Laden lost the battle but won the war 
• The Night of Power – Robert Fisk’s bitter epilogue

America

• Land of the fearful – home of the heavily armed
• The Ricochet of Trump’s Counter-revolution
• Deconstructing Donald – translating Trumpspeak
• Trumps second coming … a new American Revolution?
• Trump’s revolution … he can destroy, but he cannot create
• Deep in the Heart of Texas
• The Loss of American Virtue 
• Allende’s Desk and Osama’s Pyjamas 
• The Wrath to Come. Gone With the Wind and America’s Big Lie  
• Tales of Yankee Power … at play in America’s backyard

The World

• A Brief History of the Rise and Fall of the West
• Sic Semper Tyrannis 
• Thermidorian Thinking
• Solitudinem Pacem Appellant
• A House Divided – the Nature of Civil War
• The Spirit of ’45
• Free Speech, One Each
• The agony of Julian Assange
• Free Derry and the battle of the Bogside 
• The view from the grassy knoll – the resilience of conspiracy theories
• Arguments of Monumental Proportions (1) – fallen idols
• Arguments of Monumental Importance  (2) – statuary declarations
• Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow – judgement in Kabul 
• David Kilcullen’s 2021 wrap up – a weak US emboldens its rivals
• Educate a girl and you educate a community – exclude her and you impoverish it 
• A Messiah is needed – so that he will not come. 
• Why Osama bin Laden lost the battle but won the war 

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