Let’s ban the news

May 11, 2023 · 0 Comments

by BRIAN LOCKHART Try getting the news in North Korea. You won’t get much news. You will get a lot of propaganda determined by the ...

Thailand: Another Round?

by GWYNNE DYER There have been occasional violent episodes in Thai politics and one recent massacre (2010), but the struggle for a genuine democracy has ...

Shoot the messenger

by BRIAN LOCKHART Over the course of the past couple of years, my doorbell has rang numerous times, announcing the arrival of unexpected visitors. My ...

Ukraine: What the global south thinks

by GWYNNE DYER There is a deep and growing rift between ‘the West’ and ‘the Rest’ about the need to resist and defeat the Russian ...

Do you speak my language?

by BRIAN LOCKHART There are times when I wonder how anyone learning English as a second language can ever figure it out. It comes naturally ...

Sudan: the thieves fall out

by GWYNNE DYER It’s a pity that both sides can’t lose in the war that broke out between rival generals in Sudan on Saturday, but ...

Little green men

by BRIAN LOCKHART For some reason, there has been this fascination with Mars – the red planet – which peaked during the 1950s when it ...

China’s conniptions with Taiwan

by GWYNNE DYER China has been having conniptions again. President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan had a courtesy meeting last week with the Speaker of the ...

White collar crime

by BRIAN LOCKHART It’s no secret that white-collar crime is not dealt with very harshly. You see stories all the time of people embezzling money ...

Pakistan: Endless turmoil

by GWYNNE DYER Last year US President Joe Biden called Pakistan “one of the most dangerous countries in the world,” presumably because of its potentially ...

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