4 February 2021 The South China Morning Post carried an opinion piece on China’s relations with the world. The SCMP is owned by Alibaba, Jack Ma’s company, and should be read with that perspective in mind. Last week, the small nation of New Zealand managed to cut a
From Goethe’s classic Faust to Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore’s comedic version, Bedazzled, the message has always been clear: fools deal with the Devil at their peril. No matter how glittering the prize the Prince of Liars dangles before the naive and greedy, the Devil always wins – and
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.
Now the public is aware of political interference through social media platforms Zuckerberg says he wants to reduce the “political echo chambers” on all of them. “We’re also currently considering steps that we can take to reduce the amount of political content in News Feed as well,” Zuckerberg said
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
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)
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
