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Myanmar in Trouble – A Little Background

Myanmar in Trouble – A Little Background

My previous pieces raised a few questions, so I will attempt to answer a few of them here. Where Does Myanmar Source Its Military Hardware? Many of these date back to the early 1990s but are well maintained. The fighter aircraft are mostly ground attack and support versions used internally.

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Ideological Wars, Internment Camps, Imaginary Coups, And Other News

Ideological Wars, Internment Camps, Imaginary Coups, And Other News

CJ Hopkins The Consent Factory OK … I assume you’re wondering about that photo above. Let me tell you about that photo. It’s a photo of one of the new internment camps for “quarantine objectors” here in Germany, which officially opened for business yesterday. I’ve been writing about

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What Happened in Myanmar on the First Day of the Coup

What Happened in Myanmar on the First Day of the Coup

Mong Palatino globalvoices.org Myanmar’s newly elected parliament members were supposed to convene a session on February 1 to select the country’s president and vice president. Instead, the military seized power, imposed a year-long state of emergency, and detained key leaders of the National League for Democracy (NLD)

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Myanmar in Trouble

Myanmar in Trouble

Below is part of a piece that I wrote for The BFD on 13 November last year following on from the Myanmar election. “Despite its deep flaws, we’re approaching an election that will in all likelihood deliver a government with a strong popular mandate – something that would be difficult

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The Peace Process

The Peace Process

Antony Blinken, the new US Secretary of State, has already indicated President Biden’s intent to restart the forever Israeli/Palestinian ‘peace process’ known affectionately to all as the ‘two state solution’. This paradigm for solving the intractable hundred-year conflict has clearly failed by all measurable parameters and appears to

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The UN Wants Your Children

The UN Wants Your Children

“Give us a child till he’s seven and we’ll have him for life,” is a maxim attributed to everyone from Aristotle to the Jesuits, but throughout history it is one well understood by would-be totalitarians. It’s why the Nazis had their Hitler Jugend, the Communists their Komsomol

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Beijing “Disappears” Suspected Patient 0

Beijing “Disappears” Suspected Patient 0

We all know that the Chinese government has lied, lied, and lied again about the Chinese virus. In fact, Beijing has lied so much that the only hard part is trying to figure out just what they’re not lying about. That includes the origins of the virus. The suspicion

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Our COVID Crisis

Our COVID Crisis

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com An international row broke out yesterday in Europe, with the European Union crying unfair and accusing Britain of hogging access to coronavirus vaccines at the expense of EU nations. Boris countered, saying it’s a contractual matter which they expect to be honoured. Plainly Britain

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Dutch Riots Are a Sign of a People Fed Up

Dutch Riots Are a Sign of a People Fed Up

Perhaps the most astonishing – and alarming – thing about the Wuhan Plague is the way in which populations around the world have meekly submitted to opportunistic wannabe dictators in governments and bureaucracies exploiting the crisis with indecent haste. Quicker than you can say “Reichstag fire”, governments have stripped away hard-won democratic

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Xi’s Hypocrisy Contains a Warning for NZ

Xi’s Hypocrisy Contains a Warning for NZ

Germany wishes, as with all countries, including America, peace and friendship. Adolf Hitler Those were the words of Adolf Hitler, in January 1939, less than half a year before he unleashed the German war machine without provocation and after the other Western powers had repeatedly granted extraordinary concessions to his

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All You Ever Wanted to Know about Israeli Elections

All You Ever Wanted to Know about Israeli Elections

In March 2021 Israel heads into its fourth general election in just two years and with its perennial Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu facing a number of criminal charges and accusations of impropriety, it’s pretty difficult to make north or south of the local ‘political map’ for both Israelis

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Five Reasons Biden’s Move to Rejoin the WHO Is Bad News

Five Reasons Biden’s Move to Rejoin the WHO Is Bad News

Kimberly Ells mercatornet.com Kimberly Ells is the author of The Invincible Family: Why the Global Campaign to Crush Motherhood and Fatherhood Can’t Win and is a policy advisor for Family Watch International. Last year President Trump halted US funding to the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO). On

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