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Stress, distress led voters to Trump
News, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 15/11/2016
» Perhaps the most troubling aspect of a Donald Trump presidency is not the man's big-headed, pig-headed penchant for self-promotion, but the shock wave of hate he has awakened. Americans are stressed and politically distressed, expressing anger in vulgar, bipolar ways.
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Time running out on Tokyo Olympics
News, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 19/02/2020
» Japan needs to rethink the Olympics. The most pressing reason to postpone or cancel the 2020 Tokyo summer games, which are due to start in late July, is a raging public health crisis of unknown dimensions.
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US hubris has real-world consequences
News, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 23/12/2014
» The Interview is based on a deeply-flawed conceit rooted in American exceptionalism: that a film about the killing a leader for the fun of it is funny as long as the target is unpopular and foreign.
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China proved right over Facebook ban
News, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 24/03/2018
» In retrospect, China did the right thing by saying "no thank you" to Facebook. When gregarious internet evangelists come bearing gifts, it is probably best not to take their wares or let them in the door. Give 'em an inch and they'll take a mile -- and trample on national sovereignty, too, if profits and power are at stake.
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America first, and Trump unleashed
News, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 26/01/2017
» The Trump administration introduced itself to the nation and the world with a bellicose roar of "America first" and some rather petty falsehoods, establishing a strident, truculent tone.
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Time will not weaken Snowden's legacy
News, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 28/12/2013
» Edward Snowden was for a while considered Time magazine's most likely candidate for "Person of the Year", but in the end the editors yielded the man-of-the-year slot to the Pope, the third pontiff so named.
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Democracy as we know it is being poisoned
News, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 28/11/2013
» Thai democracy is in crisis because it is producing undemocratic results and practices.
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US snooping scandal risks stunting internet's growth
News, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 14/09/2013
» The US is at a key crossroads, trying to regain the trust of its citizens and friendly nations around the world even while it continues to lie and dissimulate in defence of National Security Agency (NSA) overreach.
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Surveillance scandal signals a creeping police state
News, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 12/06/2013
» Even before an unlikely freedom fighter named Edward Snowden revealed his hand in the firestorm of a story about massive US government surveillance, Diane Feinstein, Peter King and other congressional mouthpieces for the US security state did their best to turn attention away from the message and onto the messenger.
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Publicity or propaganda, it's all just a matter of spin
News, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 02/05/2013
» When Beijing changed the name of the Department of Propaganda to the Publicity Department, journalists snickered at the transparency of the ploy, since the spin and the information control system remained the same.
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