When China’s “wolf warrior” diplomats huff and puff and denounce their critics, it all comes across to Western ears as just so much shrill hypocrisy. After all – China, lambasting America for human rights abuses? China, calling other countries “thin-skinned” and “hysterical”? Much of it is certainly calculated righteous indignation
Lauren Chen rt.com Lauren Chen is a political and social commentator. She began as a YouTuber, and has since gained millions of views on the platform and hundreds of thousands of followers. Many Canadians consider their country to be a free one, but unfortunately the Trudeau government is moving
27th June 2021 Four people’s defence forces announced today that they will work together towards defeating the Junta. They are the PDFs from Kyaukse, Sagaing, Mandalay and Magway and will share technology and information. Meanwhile, the justice system in Myanmar gets ever more brutal. At least 64 Myanmar citizens
Geoffrey Miller Geoffrey Miller is an international analyst at the Democracy Project. He has lived and travelled extensively in the Middle East and is a fluent Arabic speaker. This month’s formation of a new coalition government in Israel may be a chance for New Zealand to reset – or at
Adam Simpson University of South Australia Nicholas Farrelly University of Tasmania Dr Adam Simpson is Senior Lecturer in International Studies in Justice & Society, University of South Australia. He has held a 6-month Visiting Research Fellowship at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, and Visiting Scholar positions at
23rd June 2021 The resistance to the Junta grows. In Sagaing region, 1,000 civilian defenders took on troops deployed in a base and then had the nerve to ambush reinforcements sent to relieve the base. At least 30 junta troops were reportedly killed during two shootouts with civilian resistance
Let’s admit it: the UN is no longer fit for purpose and should be abandoned. The last remaining shreds of the UN’s relevance evaporated in the 1990s with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Since then, the UN has been little more than the plaything of despots, meddling
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22nd June 2021 The resistance is getting stronger. In Mandalay, anti-junta cells are in operation but are having to deal with informants. The way the conflicts are developing there will be an increase in bodies floating down the Irrawaddy river. A Mandalay civilian resistance group fighting against the military regime
Why are so many on the left sympathetic to a totalitarian, genocidal dictatorship, over their own democratic nations? Because the left secretly yearn for totalitarianism – and despise democracy. In Nick Cohen’s What’s Left, he recounts that, even after the Chamberlain government had been jolted out of its appeasement
20th June 2021 It is becoming apparent that there is a possibility that the revolt against the Junta could succeed. This unlikely possibility is because the Tatmadaw can’t get on top of the dissenters and close down the country. They are finding it impossible to gain control nationally, with
19th June 2021 A vote took place in the UN on stopping the supply of arms to Myanmar. The results are below. The UN General Assembly has stopped short of calling for a global arms embargo against Myanmar’s military, even as it took the rare step of urging member
Let me tell you about the mainstream media. They are different from you and me. They are, they tell themselves, the gatekeepers of truth, and that does something to them. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are. They see the world differently. All pastiches
