Xi Jinping like Mao: Chinese forced to spy on each other
In Xi Jinping's China, Mao's Cultural Revolution methods are seeping back. In order to prevent dissent, the 'Fengqiao experience' system is reintroduced: volunteer vigilantes who incite citizens to denounce one another.
All the pitfalls of Putin's proposed peace plan
Putin proposes peace to Ukraine. The problem is on what terms? The terms are so harsh they amount to surrender. An analysis is required that goes beyond the usual simplification of the facts.
Hamas wants Palestinians dead, it is time to face the truth
Palestinian victims are 'a necessary sacrifice': this statement by the Hamas leader is not only a demonstration of political cynicism, but expresses that deadly nihilism typical of jihadism. Something it’s time we reckon with, even in our homeland.
European vote: resounding ‘no’ to ideologies of the elites
The political significance of the elections for the Europarliament is clear: rejection of green ideology, unchecked immigration policy, the power of the LGBT agenda and the exaggerated confrontation with Russia.
Gaza: Unrwa school massacre in Nuseirat increases hatred between Israelis and Palestinians
Massacre in Nuseirat, after Israeli air attack on a Hamas cell. An Unrwa school is destroyed leaving forty dead. Tempers are flaring on both sides and at a nationalist march in Jerusalem Ben Gvir's extremists give vent to worst anti-Arab ideology.
India: Christians relieved by Modi’s diminished victory
Hindu premier wins a third term but loses his parliamentary majority. Now he has to reckon with the advance of the opposition and religious minorities threatened by his nationalist agenda.
Myanmar, repression of Christians and Rohingya intensifies
Priests attacked and killed, churches damaged and martial law imposed. Human rights and respect for minorities are a distant memory under the rule of the military junta.
China looms: 14 convictions in Hong Kong for subversion
The trial of 47 pro-democracy activists arrested in 2020, ended yesterday for the first 14 convictions for subversion, but also with two acquittals. Beijing's new law starts to be applied in Hong Kong.
Nethanyahu caught between Hamas and Israeli distrust
Massacre in Palestinian refugee camp after Islamic movement's rocket attack on Tel Aviv. For Netanyahu it is "a tragic accident", but he must also deal with the anger and grief of the families of the hostages still in the hands of the militia.
China wages war on the 'Hong Kong anthem'
A Hong Kong Court of Appeal order panders to the pro-China government's request to prevent the broadcasting of the pro-democracy anthem 'Glory to Hong Kong', used in the 2019 protests against the CCP. Pressure also on big tech and YouTube blocks the song.
How the Beijing regime terrorises Chinese students abroad
Amnesty International's new report: all the ways in which the Chinese Communist Party tracks, spies on, persecutes and represses students abroad. Transnational totalitarianism.
Unisex school uniforms and pro-trans laws, LGBT lobby wins in Japan
More than half of schools impose gender neutral uniforms. Unisex swimwear are also catching on. The publisher of a book criticising 'transgender madness' is intimated. And now even the Supreme Court favours trans identity.
