Jeff Rich
Jeff Rich is a writer, historian, and former government official. He writes weekly on world affairs and history at jeffrich.substack.com
Recent articles by Jeff Rich
23 September 2024
Gazing at the Gorgon in Gaza
There are many world events now that are hard to take. Many horrors that are hard to watch. Many emotions that overwhelm us. In fear, we can freeze. Our hearts can turn to stone.
18 June 2024
Across the US Empire, deranged shrieks drown out talk of peace
Historically ignorant strategists urge people to their deaths to sustain the illusion of American primacy. But the problem of dealing with a belligerent, crumbling, supremacist USA is the true geopolitical challenge of the age.
4 February 2024
The West has lost the will for peace
Dtente would be good. Dialogue and diplomacy would be better. An end to US-led covert actions and cold wars would be better still.
4 October 2023
Australias aborted cultural decolonisation
Over the 50 years since Patrick Whites Nobel Prize, the progressive cultural nationalists, who borrowed Whites honour, challenged a tired old elite, and then generated a new cohort of tired old elites. They had broken with Britain, but embraced America and its fantasy of the universal progressive empire that dare not say its name. The Austral-Americans were born, and became the enforcers of todays sterile regime culture.
13 September 2023
The G20 returns to earth
The American diplomatic starship, USS Exceptionalism, fell to earth at the G20 Leaders Summit in New Delhi.
25 June 2023
The parasite state of consultants
The vices exposed by the consulting firm, PWC, allegedly leaking confidential tax information, are not limited to one firms malpractice. The scandal is not merely the overuse of consultants or the misuse of the public service. The scandal has exposed a loose thread in how we are governed.
4 June 2023
Australia, little country lost
You could hear, when Biden squibbed the Quad, the Austral-Americans deflate.
16 May 2023
The crooked timber of an unhappy, dangerous American Empire
Sealed inside its bubble, America today is steadfastly walking the unhappy, steady and confident gait of the Soviet Union.
21 February 2023
The Wests grand Illusions in Ukraine
The Grand Illusions of the leaders of Western Democracies are crashing to defeat in Ukraine.