Atlas Monitor | 23 May 2017 Chris Cornell’s death chimes with Joy Division’s Ian Curtis’ whose suicide was attributed to medication he was taking for epilepsy The news of the death of Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell on Thursday night NZ time sent shock waves around the world. Reports on Friday morning that Cornell committed suicide…

Atlas Monitor | 31 July 2016 The very real potential for the new Cold War developing into a “hot war” is the biggest news story of the year but has been at best ignored and at worst covered up by Western mainstream media. Putin has told international media that they must report on this in…

Atlas Monitor | 18 June 2016 On Saturday morning New Zealand time it was reported that a military coup was underway in Turkey. A minority faction within the Turkish military had conspired to overthrow the government of the much maligned President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. By Sunday morning it was reported that the coup had failed.…

Atlas Monitor | 16 July 2016 Siouxsie Wiles is a glow-worm studying microbiologist whose wailing dogmatic scientism  can be read from time to time at the website The Spinoff. From her attack dog-bullhorn column she sics on anyone who dares question conventional scientific wisdom particularly when it comes to so-called “medical orthodoxy” i.e. the vaccine-pharmaceutical model for medicine. She…

Atlas Monitor | 25 June 2015   Scotland faces the prospect of a second referendum on independence from the UK if it is to stay in the European Union. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed that a second referendum is on the table. Sturgeon said it was a ‘democratic outrage’ that Scotland would be forced…

Atlas Monitor | 18 June 2016 The senseless murder of British Labour MP Jo Cox by a mentally ill man, Thomas Mair, has been exploited by the “Bremain” campaign in a cynical attempt to link the murder and Mair to the “Brexit” campaign. It is perhaps another hideous example of political necroexploitataion, joining a long list including the recent…

Atlas Monitor | 11 June 2016 Two posts were published recently on the University of Auckland’s Political Studies department blog Pacific Outlier that illustrate the pseudo-liberal bias in academia and in particular the social sciences. The views expressed in the articles demonstrate the susceptibility to popular memes with presumably left-leaning scholars that manifest as political…

Atlas Monitor | 9 June 2016 The original Cassius (Marcellus) Clay (1810-1903) was an American politician and abolitionist active during the administration of Abraham Lincoln. Clay pushed Lincoln to free slaves under Confederate control and was a key player behind Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation. Muhammad the “Holy Prophet” of Islam and his cousin and son-in-law Ali…

Atlas Monitor | 12 May 2016 It was recently announced that media companies operating in New Zealand; APN News & Media and Fairfax Media, would “divest” from their NZ operations effectively separating the NZ branches of the organizations from their parent companies. APN, the parent company of NZME includes the NZ Herald and Newstalk ZB;…