Alexander Gillespie University of Waikato Alexander Gillespie works primarily in international law, with specialties in international environmental; and the laws of war/international humanitarian law. The political temperature is rising in the South China Sea, and its effects will be felt in the South Pacific before long. Recent incursions by
rt.com Amid the escalating war of words between Beijing and Taipei, the Chinese military posted a video of its troops practising beach landings and building beachheads, in “recent” drills conducted right across the straits from Taiwan. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Daily posted a video on its Weibo
11th October 2021 In an attempt to boost the morale of the troops and government employees, General Min Aung Hlaing emerged from his high-security enclave in the capital, Nay Pyi Daw and paid a visit to Yangon. The purpose of the visit was a morale booster and also to
John Black stuffednz.net Information Satire Finance Minister Grant Robertson has announced that we will begin exporting kindness to the Taliban. “New Zealand kindness is some of the best kindness in the world. We know the Taliban is in need of some as they begin to rebuild their country.” “I
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
