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Journalists in Hong Kong threatened over reporting on Chinese government
Hong Kong (HK), being a special administrative region (SAR) of China due to its former colonial status within the British Empire, is...
Iranian Women demonstrate against government following January riots
This January/February marks forty years since protests erupted which eventually sparked and gave momentum to the revolutionary forces...
Chinese authorities arrest Swedish national
Levels of national security are on high alert in China. As is well-known, the Chinese government is an authoritarian regime that permits...
The tale of Two Koreas
The Winter Olympics this year (2018) has given rise to some magnificent spectacles, not only for sports fans but also for an event that...
Modern purges: Tyranny in the (re-)making
North Korea made headlines last March with the high-profile assassination of Kim Jong-Nam, the current leader Kim Jong-Il’s half-brother,...
How the Far right rose (Again)
Nationalist, populist, protectionist and right-wing; US President Donald Trump is all these things. Across the pond, the political...
Australia passes law to legalise assisted death
The UK's absence of legal euthanasia, assisted death and assisted suicide forces people to travel to other nations for the right to die,...
Catalonian independence in a mess as Puigdemont remains absent
Over past two months, since the regional elections in Catalonia, and the narrative of the push for independence has taken a turn towards...
Democracy and moral principles are being abandoned in the name of Trade Deals
A marker of a functional liberal democracy is an ability for groups to organise without state or police interference. Another is an...
The puppet master of the west: Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs. The undisputed King of Wall Street, a financial factory whose name reverberates across the globe for it’s ruthless...
China’s modern imperialism: foreign dominance or internal insecurity?
Imperialism has always existed in human history, since the idea of territorial expansion/migration is attested since the second millennia...
How Neo-Liberalism killed wage growth
The success of more radical politicians should not be a surprise, since the 1980s and the dawn of Neo-Liberalism the working class have...
Putin's purpose in Syria
In December, President Putin made a surprise visit to the Russian military base in Syria and announced the withdrawal of Russian forces...
Eritrea: The Forgotten Crisis
With civil war, abject poverty, and millions displaced under the umbrella President Afwerki's political tyranny, Eritrea is symbolic as...
World leaders remain by-standers to Iranian protests
Protests have erupted in Iran, similar to those in 2009, with thousands upon thousands of people demanding the current government either...
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