Ausma Bernot Alexander Trauth-Goik Sue Trevaskes mercatornet.com Ausma Bernot is a PhD Candidate at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University. Alex Trauth-Goik is a PhD candidate at the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry at the University of Wollongong. Sue Trevaskes is Head of School (Interim)
Paris police beat woman who tried to go shopping at the mall without a vaccine passport.pic.twitter.com/twZiKIpX2P — Syrian Girl ??? (@Partisangirl) September 4, 2021
Dark Jester For some time now, politics has always been divided on partisan lines and specifically can be easily divided based on the political continuum. On the left you had people who believed that the state provided better goods and services and therefore they favoured bigger government and more state
As Bob Dylan once said, “For the loser now will be later to win”. The 60s are not exactly a fading memory (mainly because the Boomers just can’t shut the hell up about them), but the times they are still a-changin’. With dizzying rapidity. Last week’s pandemic “losers”
Birsen Filip mises.org Birsen Filip holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and master’s degrees in economics and philosophy. She has published numerous articles and chapters on a range of topics, including political philosophy, geo-politics, and the history of economic thought, with a focus on the Austrian School of
Ali A. Olomi Penn State I am a historian of the Middle East and Islam researching, writing, and publishing on medieval and modern Muslim thought. I study how Muslims imagined the “Islamic world” through at the intersection of religion, science, and empire. The rapid takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban
Jon Miltimore fee.org Oscar Stark recently was warming up leftover vegetarian pasta in his flat, a red-brick 1960s tower outside Stockholm. Reheated veggie pasta isn’t exactly a gourmet meal, but it’s all the 20-year-old Swede said he can afford, because the majority of his income is spent
In the popular (read: left-wing) media narrative, the war in Afghanistan sits somewhere between WWI and Vietnam. It was, we are told, a colossal waste of blood and treasure. Fought on a false premise and doomed to fail. But is that true? It certainly isn’t true of WWI; despite
Giada Ferrucci Western University Giada ferrucci is a Ph.D. Candidate in Media Studies at Western University. She holds a BA in Economic Development and International Cooperation from the University of Florence, Italy, where her research focused on the opium trade in Afghanistan and alternative economic development reforms, and an
Leesa K. Donner libertynation.com Leesa K. Donner is Editor-in-Chief of LibertyNation.com. A widely published columnist, Leesa previously worked in the broadcast news industry as a television news anchor, reporter, and producer at NBC, CBS and Fox affiliates in Charlotte, Pittsburgh, and Washington, DC. She is the author of
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. However slick, however glib, however metronomic, governments do need effective public relations teams. As the video below shows, the Taliban’s image management could do with a bit of polishing. A newsreader for Afghan TV reads a script about
On 27 August, the WHO published the Technical Specifications and Implementation Guidance for digitally implementing a COVID-19 vaccine passport. Call it “The Great Reset”, “A New World Order”, “Build Back Better” or whatever you like. It is not a good development. An interesting section examines the ethical considerations of what
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Labour’s decision to reject National’s motion for the Minister of Immigration to front the Education and Workforce Select Committee to answer questions about his and Immigration New Zealand’s role in how so many of our Afghan allies and their families who requested visas were left behind in
