Effectively selling the Port of Darwin to a Chinese-owned company is one of the most spectacular strategic idiocies of recent decades. When the Northern Territory government handed a 99-year lease over the port to Chinese owners in 2015, even the strategically inept Obama administration questioned the decision. Because, let’s
One significant outcome of the Tasmanian election has gone barely without mention by the mainstream media: the apparent lack of a “COVID bounce”. Premier Peter Gutwein was surely banking on one, when he called an early election on the flimsy excuse of having been pushed into minority government. After all,
4th May 2021 The EAOs are ramping up action against the Junta. They have started to inflict casualties at officer level to the Tatmadaw and now the police. The Mansi Township police chief was killed in an attack by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) on the central police station in
Victoria University of Wellington-Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz 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. For critics who believed she had gone soft on China, Jacinda Ardern’s line that differences
3rd May 2021 The above picture shows who is controlling the shots at the Global New Light of Myanmar. (No pun intended). Information on detained Myanmar Journalists: 1. Detained Journalists – 73 2. Released Journalists – 30 3. Arrested Journalists- 43 4. Prosecuted Journalists – 42 5. Arrest Warrants – 22 6. Prosecuted Media
My old Mum had a wise saying about bullies: They can dish it out, but they can’t take it. The same is particularly true of cry-bullies: those who self-righteously harass or intimidate others while playing the victim. Jacinda Ardern is having a bit of a sissy-Mary over alleged “bullying”
Notorious Australian criminal and raconteur Mark “Chopper” Read once commented to a journalist that “Posh people love gangsters”. People who live safe, cosseted lives seem to yearn for what gay slang once dubbed “rough trade”. Academics are definitely posh people. A US academic with a PhD averages more than twice
For decades, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) officials have recommended funding UNRWA. When presented with evidence of UNRWA schools teaching hate, MFAT officials also tried to justify the practice. The Chief Human Rights Commissioner has weighed in to suggest that the support for antisemitism “would place New Zealand
2nd May 2021 A wanted poster has been put up with a reward of 50 Pyar for the capture of an alleged criminal. There are 100 Pyar to the Kyat and about 1,000 kyat to the NZ dollar. The wanted poster in the southern city of Dawei on May
CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org C. J. Hopkins is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and political satirist. His plays have been produced and have toured at theatres and festivals including Riverside Studios (London), 59E59 Theaters (New York), Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh), Belvoir St. Theatre (Sydney), the Du Maurier World Stage Festival (Toronto), Needtheater
1st May 2021 Today’s update is devoted to a piece from Charles Petrie, the former UN Assistant Secretary General, UN Resident & Humanitarian Coordinator Myanmar (2003-2007). In November 2007, he was declared persona-non-grata by the then regime for having exposed publicly the underlying socio-economic causes of the Saffron Revolution
Phillip W. Magness aier.org Phil Magness is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research.He is the author of numerous works on economic history, taxation, economic inequality, the history of slavery, and education policy in the United States. This has been a year of astonishing
Louis T. March mercatornet.com Louis T. March has a background in government, business and philanthropy. A former talk show host, author and public speaker, he is a dedicated student of history and genealogy. Louis lives with his family in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Ma Yinchu was born
30th April 2021 More and more “ordinary” people are being abducted by the regime. This coup is affecting everyone in the country, even non-revolutionary people, and public servants. They are silent heroes, each, and every one. Dr Zaw Min Aye, Medical Superintendent of Bhamo Hospital was found dead in the
19 APRIL 2021 * HON NANAIA MAHUTA Foreign Affairs Speech to the NZCC 8.30 am, 19 April 2021 “He Taniwha He Tipua, He Tipua He Taniwha – The Dragon and the Taniwha” Korihi Po, Korihi Ao E rongo e turia no Matahau No Tu te winiwini, No Tu te wanawana Tu
Clifford Smith aijac.org.au The US Biden Administration’s recent decision to provide US$150 million (A$194 million) in funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) repeatedly cites concerns with how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting Palestinians. The message is clear: The
