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After Her Own Release, Kylie Moore-Gilbert Helps Others

After Her Own Release, Kylie Moore-Gilbert Helps Others

Naomi Levin aijac.org.au A little over three months ago, Australian academic Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert was spirited out of Iran after two years imprisonment in some of the world’s worst jails. Moore-Gilbert could be forgiven for laying low and adjusting to life back home after her long incarceration

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The Death Toll Mounts

The Death Toll Mounts

27th March 2021 Below is the breakdown of today’s death toll by region. This does not account for fatalities where the authorities drag away the bodies and dispose of them elsewhere. The situation is escalating so much that civil war is becoming increasingly likely especially with a debilitating escalation

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Just like Clockwork – The Slaughter Resumes

Just like Clockwork – The Slaughter Resumes

27th March 2021 The message below was broadcast to the sound of soothing, tinkling piano music on the eve of Armed Forces Day (used to be revolution day). Translation “This isn’t anything like video games you play, your heads or backs would be shots just like your friends who

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Does Canada’s Bill C-7 Ignore a Dark Lesson from History?

Hendrik van der Breggen mercatornet.com Hendrik van der Breggen, PhD, is a retired philosophy professor who lives in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada. Hendrik’s parents survived the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands. Lebensunwertes Leben is German for “life unworthy of life.” As a justification of killing, this idea led to

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China’s Strength Should Be Evaluated without Emotion

Bruce Wilds brucewilds.blogspot.com Bruce Wilds is the author of the book “Advancing Time”, and this blog-site. Both the book and this blog focuses on how the ever-quickening pace of change impacts today’s society and the massive challenges it creates. He feels that it is crucial we understand

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The Beer War Starts

The Beer War Starts

26th March 2021 Below is a letter from the Karen National Union to Min Aung Hlaing. It is a translation of the original Burmese letter sent to the General. This spells trouble for the regime and you can be sure that the KNU are talking to other EAOs. The Kachin

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Time for China to Welcome UN Investigative Team

The National Party welcomes and affirms the joint statement from the New Zealand and Australia Foreign Ministers calling on China to grant ‘unfettered access to Xinjiang for United Nations experts, and other independent observers’, National’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson Gerry Brownlee says. “In a phone conversation with the Chinese Ambassador

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The Fightback Starts

The Fightback Starts

25th March 2021 Armed resistance to the coup regime is building. The Kachin Independence Army have started to engage the Tatmadaw in limited actions. The Kachin Independence Army (KIA), a major ethnic armed group based in Kachin State, has occupied a strategically important hill in Bhamo District held by Myanmar’

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Pillage, Thuggery, Vandalism and Barbie

Pillage, Thuggery, Vandalism and Barbie

24th March 2021 It takes a lot to leave me speechless, but today, words fail me. Troops and police raided a house in Mandalay and deliberately opened fire, killing a 7-year-old girl sitting on her father’s lap having a cuddle.  Unfortunately, this is now typical of the sociopaths recruited

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Pillage, Thuggery and Vandalism

Pillage, Thuggery and Vandalism

23rd March 2021 Below is the latest tally of deaths recorded in Myanmar. The real death toll is actually much more than this due to the new tactics employed by the police and the Tatmadaw. Where possible, they are dragging the bodies away and disposing of them, not reporting back

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Australians Detained

Australians Detained

22nd March 2021 We start today with a T-shirt that has been designed to be worn, initially in private, but in public once the protestors win. Optimistic I know, but it makes its point. Below are some of the weapons employed against the civilians involved in the protest movement. Below

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The Opposition Gets Serious.

The Opposition Gets Serious.

19th March 2021 I am a little short of information today, but I reproduce an article below in full which underlines what I have been saying would be a major cause of trouble for the coup leaders. If they manage to get the concept of a federal Burma off the

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China’s C919 Airplane, Boeing’s New Rival Wins Contract

China’s C919 Airplane, Boeing’s New Rival Wins Contract

Bruce Wilds brucewilds.blogspot.com Bruce Wilds is the author of the book “Advancing Time.” On March 1, CGTN reported that Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) had won its first commercial contract. China Eastern Airlines, one of China’s largest airlines headquartered in Shanghai, signed a contract to buy

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The New Normal (Phase 2)

The New Normal (Phase 2)

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

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The Lego Movie Isn’t Really about Freedom

Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research.He is the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and nine books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of

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