A One-Time ICC Advocate Recants
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I suspect that, given Trump’s strong antipathy towards the ICC and his earlier sanctions on ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda (lifted by Biden in April 2021), mos... Read more.
Trump’s Multiethnic Winning Coalition
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Phrases like the Latino, black, or Asian-American vote are increasingly meaningless. This can only be good for the long-term health of American democracy, contr... Read more.
Australia’s Covid Inquiry Report Is Not Fit for Purpose
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The report’s solution to the overreach and abuse of power by authorities during Covid is to create even more bureaucratic structures with more powers and reso... Read more.
Pandemic in Africa: Lessons and Strategies
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Africa is at risk of getting the worst of both worlds: failure to check the epidemic and failure to check economic collapse. Why? Most African countries lack th... Read more.
Why the Ruling Class Fears Democracy
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Being unheard and vilified has broken public trust in the underpinning institutions of democracy. In the 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer, less than half the people... Read more.
The Forces That Imperil Public Order
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Public disquiet has grown but bubbled along under the surface for decades at serially repeating instances of police refusing to enforce the law for fear of tran... Read more.
Perrottet’s Covid Apology Is Not Good Enough
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Australians cannot like a post on Facebook without police knocking on the door, and yet every level of our government engaged in crimes against our humanity –... Read more.
The WHO Is No Longer Fit for Purpose
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Unfortunately, the WHO’s performance in helping the world manage Covid-19 proved, to be kind, very patchy. This makes it all the more surprising that there sh... Read more.
Voters Take Vengeance on the Tories
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The policy agenda should commit to restoring sovereign decision-making, shrinking government, strengthening free speech, reducing immigration, and cutting the a... Read more.
Self-Inflicted Harm: The Persecution of Assange
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The WikiLeaks document dumps caused embarrassment to some governments. However, for all the repetitions of the charge against Assange that he put the lives of U... Read more.
The Crisis of Democracy and the New Right
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The old left-right divide has become obsolete. Instead, the new divide is between the international technocratic elite in alliance with national elites against ... Read more.
Covid Vaccines: Savior or Killer Shot?
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In sum, therefore, looked at together, the two pairs of examples from North America and Australasia indicate a weak to negligible role of vaccines and the criti... Read more.