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Interview with Retired US Ambassador: Part Three

Interview with Retired US Ambassador: Part Three

12th April 2021 The bloodshed continues and in Bagon alone 83 civilians were killed by the junta using rifle grenades and machine guns. Bodies were loaded onto a dump truck and bodies were also deposited at a Buddhist pagoda. In an action not seen since the 1988 uprising, an Imam

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Interview with Retired US Ambassador Part Three

Interview with Retired US Ambassador Part Three

8th April 2021 The Irrawaddy spoke to Scot Marciel, who served as US ambassador to Myanmar from 2016-20, about the unfolding crisis in the country and how the international community and regional powers can help stop the regime’s violence against the Myanmar people. Let’s discuss the Quad members,

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Interview with Retired US Ambassador Part Two

Interview with Retired US Ambassador Part Two

8th April 2021 The Irrawaddy spoke to Scot Marciel, who served as US ambassador to Myanmar from 2016-20, about the unfolding crisis in the country and how the international community and regional powers can help stop the regime’s violence against the Myanmar people. Intellectuals are leaving, civil servants are

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‘Pinocchio Joe’

‘Pinocchio Joe’

Joe Biden is the new ‘Pinocchio’. Pinocchio was a wooden puppet in an Italian children’s story written in 1883 by Carlo Collodi. Pinnochio wanted to be a boy not a puppet, and the “Blue” Fairy (Kamala Harris) by magic granted his wish. Jiminy Cricket (his conscience) was supposed to

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Beijing Boasts of Controlling US Think Tanks

Beijing Boasts of Controlling US Think Tanks

The same people who adamantly insist that the 2020 US Presidential election was the fairest, free-est, best-run election in the history of elections, ever, also screeched for four years that the 2016 election was “rigged” by “Russian collusion”. Anyone who voices even the slightest doubt about either is not just

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Interview with Retired US Ambassador: Part One

Interview with Retired US Ambassador: Part One

8th April 2021 The Irrawaddy spoke to Scot Marciel, who served as US ambassador to Myanmar from 2016-20, about the unfolding crisis in the country and how the international community and regional powers can help stop the regime’s violence against the Myanmar people. THE IRRAWADDY: It seems Myanmar is

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More Bombs in Yangon

More Bombs in Yangon

7th April 2021 A series of explosions were recorded across Yangon today, and the blames is being laid at the feet of the protesters. The other thought is that it could have been the Military who will now use it as a pretext for even tougher clampdowns and violence. The

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The Most Normal Place in the World

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Beijing Meddling Exploits Pacific Divisions

Beijing Meddling Exploits Pacific Divisions

The 2020 Pacific Islands Forum might in retrospect be seen as an opening skirmish in China’s diplomatic and trade war against Australia. The forum hosted an unseemly display of “gibsmedat” Pacific tinpot panjandrums lining up to harangue Australia while Chinese “wolf warrior” diplomats cheerfully threw wads of cash into

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NZ Super Fund Decision Breaches Legal Requirements

IINZ israelinstitute.nz UK Lawyers For Israel have published an article that outlines a number of reasons why the New Zealand Super Fund (NZSF) decision to divest from Israeli banks is an apparent breach of legal requirements. International financial markets lawyer, Dan Harris, is cited as considering that the published

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The Death Toll Mounts, but Not Quite What You Would Expect

The Death Toll Mounts, but Not Quite What You Would Expect

6th April 2021 We’ll start off today with a cartoon that sums up peoples’ feelings in Myanmar. The death toll in Myanmar continues to mount, but not quite in the way you would expect. Four soldiers died on Sunday afternoon when a grenade was hurled into a truck as

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Anti-Israel Academic Trolls Released Iran Hostage

Anti-Israel Academic Trolls Released Iran Hostage

Tim Anderson is a hard-left academic. Naturally, Anderson is fervently opposed to Israel. Equally naturally, Anderson found a long-time academic home at the far-left University of Sydney. USyd has an unenviable reputation for left-wing anti-Semitism. Another USyd academic was filmed at a “protest”, screaming abuse and waving money in the

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