15th November 2021 I have given the occasional update about the American Danny Fenster, managing editor of Frontier magazine in Myanmar. Six months ago, he was arrested and has languished in the infamous Insein prison ever since. He contracted Covid 19 and his health deteriorated. Danny Fenster was arrested at
Afghanistan is not called “the graveyard of empires” for nothing. From the Persians and Greeks, to the British, Soviets and Americans, great powers have attempted to invade Afghanistan at their peril. At the very least, they’re sent packing with their tails between their legs. At worst, Afghan adventurism becomes
CLINTEL clintel.org. At COP26, the wealthy global elite arrived in Glasgow on 400 private jets to lecture those attending. They said that our technological achievements have caused a global “climate emergency”, that it was “one minute to midnight” and that if we failed to stop this supposedly disastrous trend
Tyrants never lack for apologists and appeasers in freer countries. The appeasement movement in the 1930s practically gifted Europe to Hitler. The Soviets reputedly called them “useful idiots” during the Cold War. Now, they’re flocking to the banner of China. As the communist dictatorship increasingly flexes its might and
Many years ago, I read a rather engrossing history of the Roman gladiatorial games. It opened with an anecdote about a Roman official approaching his superior, informing him that there was just one ship available to sail from Alexandria. Should they load it with grain for bread, or sand for
Greta Thunberg, Prince Charles, David Attenborough, Leonardo DiCaprio and our very own James Shaw may be disappointed their quasi religious hysteria at COP26 failed to generate a tsunami of fear; instead media coverage is akin to the normal ebb and fall of a predictable tide, now receding. By the time
Michael J. Socolow University of Maine Michael J. Socolow is the director of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center at the University of Maine and is a media historian whose research centers upon America’s original radio networks in the 1920s and 1930s. His scholarship on media history has appeared in Journalism
In 2013, the world was shocked to learn about PRISM: a massive, intrusive domestic and international spying program by the US Deep State. That Washington spooks were spying on a bunch of foreigners might not have bothered Americans as much as it did their ostensible allies whose phones were being
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A 22 year old Glasgow based daughter called me last week to recount an amusing incident. To escape the horrors of the 30,000 blowhards despoiling the city she’d popped over to my Parisian apartment and had gone downstairs that evening to a very
8th November 2021 The resistance in Myanmar has started to make their own guns using 3D printing. As well as the supply of 3D weapons, the PDFs are upgrading their weapons, which has to be a cause of concern for the junta. PDF soldiers and weapons. And this is why
Jacinda Ardern might witter that “family is incredibly important” in global politics, but increasingly, she is developing a roving eye. As Ardern’s eyes and affections drift north across the Pacific, she is more often than not siding with China against her Australasian family. Once again, she is taking China’
Johannes Petry University of Warwick Johannes Petry is a political economist researching the changing dynamics of financial globalisation and its impact on the global norms, institutions and governance that underpin the global economy. China introduced new rules on November 1 that restrict the extent to which internet companies can collect
It’s hard to know just where to start the snark. Fran O’Sullivan’s gushing puff-piece about Jacinda Ardern meeting Angela Merkel is what the military folks call “a target-rich environment”. It’s also a rich study in my-side blindness. Consider the opening sentence: German Chancellor Angela Merkel will
Peter Murphy cfact.org Peter Murphy is Senior Fellow at CFACT. He has researched and advocated for a variety of policy issues, including education reform and fiscal policy, both in the non-profit sector and in government in the administration of former New York Governor George Pataki. Glasgow, Scotland U.K.
It’s sporadically fashionable in some leftist circles to accuse the Allies of complicity in the Holocaust, because, the argument runs, they knew about it and did nothing. This is an obviously ludicrous argument — have they never heard of the Second World War? — which ignores, primarily, the simple fact that
Perry Trotter The Advocate IINZ At the time of writing my June editorial, the 2021 Israel-Gaza conflict had recently concluded amidst a worldwide surge in antisemitism described by a number of commentators as “unprecedented”. Of course, for many, the conflict of May 2021 is now very much a thing of
