World Politics
For Whom the Canary Twitters
Australian cyber-security experts are using a trick straight out of Game of Thrones to expose Chinese hackers snooping on sensitive communications. The tactic has, among other things, flushed out pro-China activists who were being fed the hacked information. Australian student and human rights activist Drew Pavlou has been the target
Myanmar Actress Mya Hnin Ye Lwin on Her Decision to Join the Anti-junta Resistance
Guest Contributor globalvoices.org This article is from Radio Free Asia (RFA) and is republished here with permission. Written by Aye Aye Mon for RFA’s Myanmar Service. Translated by Khin Maung Nyane. Written in English by Roseanne Gerin. Myanmar’s ‘Spring Revolution’ has mobilized thousands of citizens who are
The Worst May Be Yet to Come
I have just come back from the supermarket. It was a depressing experience. On my way out, a young man walked in through the entrance, followed by an old hag, screaming, “He didn’t scan in! He didn’t scan in!” I find this kind of behaviour so terribly depressing.
They Are Publicly Announcing That Things Are Never Going to Return to ‘Normal’
Michael Snyder endoftheamericandream.com Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we all wake up someday and the pandemic is finally behind us? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to go back to a world with no masks, no restrictions and no mandates? I know that is what so many of you
Left-Media Melt Down: Colonialism Wasn’t All Bad
You’re a star-belly sneech, you suck like a leech … Well, you’ll work harder with a gun in your back for a bowl of rice a day The Dead Kennedys, “Holiday in Cambodia” As Orwell wrote, “All left-wing parties in the highly industrialised countries are at bottom a sham,
The French Double Standard on Fighting Terrorism
Dr. Tsilla Hershco besacenter.org Dr. Tsilla Hershco is a senior researcher at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies and an expert on French-Israeli relations. She is the author of several books, including Those Who Walk in Darkness Will See the Light: The Jewish Resistance in France, Holocaust and Resurrection:
Industry Warns: Global Supply Chains under Threat
In his novel Night Watch, one of Terry Pratchett’s characters pauses to reflect on the delicate instrument that is even a moderately complex society. “When the machinery of city life faltered, the wheels stopped turning and all the little rules broke down,”: the life that every citizen takes for
Expo 2020 Dubai – Will New Zealand’s Investment Pay Off?
Geoffrey Miller democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s international analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a fluent speaker of German and Arabic. Expo 2020 is a chance to reconsider
Taiwan’s Wealth Shows Cuba’s Poverty Is the Result of Socialism, Not a Blockade
Emmanuel Rincón fee.org Emmanuel Rincón is a lawyer, writer, novelist and essayist. He has won several international literary awards. He is Editor-at-large at El American For decades the Communist Party of Cuba has blamed the United States for Cuba’s misery and poverty, alluding to the “blockade” that the
Who Would Trust a Completely Discredited WHO?
In a move somewhat akin to the Beagle Boys investigating the Great Duckberg Bank Robbery, the WHO are preparing to “investigate” the origins of Covid-19. For a third time. In a stunning display of wishful thinking, the WHO says it is confident that this time China will cooperate. Despite the
The Mysterious Case of the Climate Celebrity Who Didn’t Want to Be There
Are the wheels finally falling off the climate catastrophe scam? While some of us caught on well over a decade ago – it’s hard to believe it’s been 12 years since the “climategate” emails blew the lie wide open – the slower kids are still playing catch-up and the con-artists
ISIS and Its War on the Taliban
Galit Truman Zinman besacenter.org Dr. Galit Truman Zinman (PhD University of Haifa). Specializes in ethnic and religious nationalism and Islamist terrorism, with a special emphasis on the Islamic State (ISIS). BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,161, September 27, 2021 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The attack by ISIS on Hamid Karzai
Taliban Executing Christians While Seeking U.N. Recognition
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