Dr Sheree Trotter israelinstitute.nz Apartheid is a potent term and one that occupies a special place in New Zealand’s social and political memory. Many New Zealanders remember the passion of the 1981 Springbok tour protests. Rugby lovers grumbled about sport and politics being mixed, while many students enthusiastically
If the Australia-China relationship for the past two years was a David-Goliath diplomatic war, a winner is slowly emerging. As in the Biblical fable, it’s not the giant. China’s international image has been tainted enough by its lies and obfuscations over the origins of the Wuhan virus pandemic.
bicom.org.uk What happened: President Isaac Herzog completed his trip to the UK with a meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson. * Herzog implored Johnson to take a tough stance in nuclear negotiations with Iran, due to restart in Vienna next week. Herzog said: “We are looking forward for our
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Dark Jester A political scholar with an interest in foreign interference. Traditional conservative. Came from a family that fled communism and improved themselves thanks to capitalism but would consider myself a distributionist. We must not be fooled by the benevolent economic power that China tries to market itself as. China
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We all understand the extent to which we have been coerced to have the jab. I took notice of what was happening in the UK last winter, and decided that the jab was probably going to be OK, but the whole idea of vaccines was the promise that they would
Jonathan Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
Vera Stanton I’m an ex-pat Kiwi currently living in Hong Kong where I have been for more than a decade. I’m writing about what I see as the complete politicisation of the Covid response, to the point where it threatens the existence of Hong Kong as I have
“The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human” Aldous Huxley Word to the wise: when an Austrian locks down millions of people, and the Germans and Italians join in, it’s not likely to end well. But, European
Duggan Flanakin cfact.org Duggan Flanakin is the Director of Policy Research at the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas.
Hannah Cox mercatornet.com Hannah Cox is a libertarian-conservative writer, commentator, and activist. She’s a Newsmax Insider and a Contributor to The Washington Examiner. In the dystopian novel 1984, the government relied on the use of telescreens and informants to enforce its massive, repressive regime. And while that was
As is too often the way, tyrants and dictatorships have no shortage of bootlicking apologists and toadies. The Chinese communist regime is no different. In the 60s and 70s, even as the Cultural Revolution raged, the leftists from Francois Mitterand to Gough Whitlam were singing the praises of Mao’s
November 15th In my letter dated 9 November I made the following comment: “Boris Johnson is toast. It may not be this week, it may not be this month, but he is on his way out”. The BFD In his piece in the Times newspaper on 13 November Matthew Parris,
bicom.org.uk What happened: A Turkish court has extended the remand of two Israeli tourists being accused of spying for Israel. * The Israeli couple Natali and Mordy Oknin, bus drivers from Modiin, were arrested on Thursday outside the Media Tower, the tallest building in Istanbul, for illegally taking photos
I asked recently, just what does it take the West to actually rise up in anger against jihadism? We’re still waiting to find out. Certainly not the murder and horrific mutilation of 130 concert-goers in Paris. Nor the deliberate murder of little girls at a pop concert in Manchester.
