Independent Analysis and Reportage
In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning deep dive into the big picture that hangs over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. That big picture has many aspects to it, and as such any resolution to the atrocities being committed in Ukraine will likely be weighed against what is a challenge to the International law and rules-based order.
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The war in Ukraine possibly represents the most dangerous episode in the history of humanity in historical times; especially but not only because it comes on top of two other overt global crises – climate change and pandemic – and another less overt global crisis, the slow implosion of the international ... <a title="Keith Rankin on Russia and Ukraine – Fighting an Unclear War" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/09/keith-rankin-on-russia-and-ukraine-fighting-an-unclear-war/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin on Russia and Ukraine – Fighting an Unclear War">Read more</a>
Analysis by Keith Rankin. These five charts look at five countries for which excess death information is available. First, it is important to note that I am presenting a different definition of excess deaths than other sources, in that these charts include seasonal excess deaths arising from triggers other than Covid19. Switzerland, the Optimistic Note ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 in 2022: Four Problems and one Not" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/08/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-in-2022-four-problems-and-one-not/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 in 2022: Four Problems and one Not">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Vice-chancellor’s fellow, La Trobe University As Russia’s attempt to intimidate Ukraine and, presumably, install a puppet regime stumbles into its second week, it is clear the Kremlin has miscalculated on several fronts. Ukrainian resistance is proving more resilient than anticipated, and a global response, led ... <a title="Has Xi Jinping miscalculated in aligning himself with Vladimir Putin?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/08/has-xi-jinping-miscalculated-in-aligning-himself-with-vladimir-putin-178308/" aria-label="Read more about Has Xi Jinping miscalculated in aligning himself with Vladimir Putin?">Read more</a>
Essay by Keith Rankin. I watched the very short movie Forgive Us Our Trespasses on Netflix today (Saturday, March 05). Set in Germany in the 1930s, it starts with a schoolteacher giving an arithmetic lesson to a class of children. The question posed was that the cost of caring for a disabled child was 12.00 ... <a title="Keith Rankin on Immigration New Zealand Cancelling Disabled Children" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/05/keith-rankin-on-immigration-new-zealand-cancelling-disabled-children/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin on Immigration New Zealand Cancelling Disabled Children">Read more</a>
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Covid has a habit of biting us on the bum, just as key milestones seem to be behind us. A diverse range of countries are facing current setbacks: eg Chile, Colombia, Bulgaria (where one in a hundred people have died from Covid), Hong Kong, South Korea, Israel. In Ukraine, there have ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 Concerns: Israel, South Korea and others" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/04/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-concerns-israel-south-korea-and-others/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 Concerns: Israel, South Korea and others">Read more</a>
A View from Afar – In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning discuss the ongoing Russian attacks against Ukraine, including: Whether the Russian Federation’s president Vladimir Putin has lost the support of significant leaders of allied nations, and if so what does this mean for Russia as a global power?
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Yesterday I watched Kenneth Branagh’s recent movie, Belfast. A wonderful ‘biopic’ of that fraught city in 1969/70. It brought back memories of my own brief visit there in April 1976, when I rode into town on my trusty Honda – past Carrickfergus Castle. Then parked, and walked along Donegal Place, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – High Noon?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/28/keith-rankin-essay-high-noon/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – High Noon?">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tanya Ogilvie-White, Senior Fellow at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University Russian president Vladimir Putin overnight ordered the defence minister and the chief of the military to put nuclear deterrent forces in a “special regime of combat duty”, possibly referring to readying ... <a title="As Putin puts nuclear forces on high alert, here are 5 genuine nuclear dangers for us all" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/28/as-putin-puts-nuclear-forces-on-high-alert-here-are-5-genuine-nuclear-dangers-for-us-all-177923/" aria-label="Read more about As Putin puts nuclear forces on high alert, here are 5 genuine nuclear dangers for us all">Read more</a>
Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning discuss whether sanctions will be effective in deterring Russian president Vladimir Putin from a full invasion of Ukraine and indeed cause Russian military to return to the Russian side of the Ukraine border.
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Having watched Vladimir Putin’s somewhat rambling speech on Al Jazeera yesterday, I think we can be sure that he does have a clear ambition to create an empire based on the ethnic concept of the Viking ‘Rus’ (refer my recent Living with Ambiguity); a concept that would ideally (for Putin-supporting Russians) ... <a title="Keith Rankin – Russian Ambitions? Transnistria and Kaliningrad" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/23/keith-rankin-russian-ambitions-transnistria-and-kaliningrad/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin – Russian Ambitions? Transnistria and Kaliningrad">Read more</a>
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Australasia Now that we are having to confront what a post-covid world may look like, it is important to get a sense of respiratory viruses in context, and especially to appreciate the extent that they determine the timing of our deaths; death being the great certainty of life. The first five ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Respiratory Viruses: Seasonal Mortality Compared" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-respiratory-viruses-seasonal-mortality-compared/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Respiratory Viruses: Seasonal Mortality Compared">Read more</a>