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
rt.com A well-intentioned person who wants to change an unjust political system should keep in mind that it would be his or her personal responsibility to not be corrupted in the process, provocative thinker Jordan Peterson told RT. The Canadian intellectual, whose ideas made him an icon for conservatives
29th April 2021 Cash is in increasingly short supply and few ATMs are open and withdrawals are limited to a few dollars. There were four bomb blasts in Hakha, Chin State around 4 am this morning. Locals said that the incidents happened near the house of the Chin state military
28th April 2021 The view of Mindat shows how difficult the terrain can be for the Junta troops to assert their authority. It is why a guerrilla war could keep going for years, as it has done for 70 years, but with more intensity. Following on from the intensive firefight
Free Press ACT Party Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta’s speech on China has been described as just dreadful. Free Press has acquired an earlier draft of the speech. The MFAT employee who wrote it has not been seen lately, and the final version Mahuta delivered was quite different. Nonetheless, we’
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Doesn’t China have McDonald’s? I bring this up because of Thomas Friedman’s famous dictum – or wishful thinking – that countries with McDonald’s don’t go to war with each other. Of course, Friedman’s argument is more of a guideline than a rule. India and Pakistan, both
Amotz Asa-El aijac.org.au Israel emerged from yet another election on March 23 with its two-year political deadlock fully intact. In fact, the already complex plot thickened further, spotlighting two kingmakers who, despite having nothing to do with each other, might jointly write a new chapter in Israel’s
26th April 2021 The Tatmadaw has upped the destructive capability of the weapons being deployed against the civilians. It took a couple of weeks for the army and police to start getting serious about violence against the demonstrators when they realised that the demonstrations weren’t going to stop. As
Paul E. Alexander aier.org Paul E. Alexander received his bachelor’s degree in epidemiology from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, a master’s degree from Oxford University, and a PhD from McMaster University’s Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact. Is there a chance to recover and
They go in for some weird shit in the name of defence, those Russians. Whether it’s confounding the Luftwaffe by using WWI biplanes so slow that the fearsome Messerschmidt Me-109s couldn’t slow down to engage them without stalling, or simply retreating over an iced-over lake and watching and
25th April 2021 Stanley Baldwin, the British Prime Minister said in 1932 “The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves.” He was referring to aerial bombardment, but it is a
Nanaia Mahuta, New Zealand’s Foreign Minister, has set the cat among the pigeons in the Five Eyes group. They want to scratch her eyes out over this. She borrowed the title of a book by Manying Ip from 2009 called “The Dragon and the Taniwha” and wove it into
A discussion is very much needed of both Nanaia Mahuta’s speech and New Zealand’s participation in Five Eyes. There has been considerable commentary from politicians and those in the media, some a little surprising. Two factors are at play here. One is the responsibility incurred when a country,
