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Musk joins 'cancel Netflix' campaign
AFP, Published on 03/10/2025
» SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk has urged his 227 million social media followers to cancel their Netflix subscriptions, accusing the streaming platform of promoting what he describes as transgender propaganda.
Trump tells military brass US faces ‘war from within’
AFP, Published on 30/09/2025
» QUANTICO, Virginia - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States faces a “war from within” from crime and immigration, in a darkly authoritarian speech to a rare meeting of the top US military officers.
The postwar era's first democratic authoritarian
Oped, Published on 08/09/2025
» The 78th anniversary of India's independence last month offers an opportunity to recall one of the most insidious moments in the country's post-independence history: prime minister Indira Gandhi's 1975 decision to declare an emergency and suspend civil liberties. A new book by political scientist Srinath Raghavan, Indira Gandhi and the Years That Transformed India, not only revisits that fateful move, but also traces its lasting impact half a century later.
New words I probably won't be using
Roger Crutchley, Published on 31/08/2025
» The Cambridge Dictionary recently announced the inclusion of 6,000 new words mainly derived from their common usage in social media. I fear those words will simply be added to an already lengthy list of vocabulary I am totally unfamiliar with. As one observer noted "internet culture is changing the English language."
Unnamed skeletons? US museum at centre of ethical debate
AFP, Published on 27/08/2025
» PHILADELPHIA — For years, a man's giant intestine was anonymously on display at a US medical museum in Philadelphia, identified only by his initials JW.
Trump order targets 'improper ideology' at famed US museums
AFP, Published on 28/03/2025
» WASHINGTON — United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to remove "improper ideology" from the famed Smithsonian Museums -- and the National Zoo -- expanding his conservative clampdown on cultural institutions.
Return of the alpha male: Why toxic masculinity is gaining prominence
AFP, Published on 20/03/2025
» LONDON - Toxic masculinity peddled by online influencers is becoming increasingly prominent, experts say, buoyed by the resurgence of far-right ideology and a virulent backlash against feminism.
Donald Trump: air crash investigator-in-chief?
AFP, Published on 31/01/2025
» WASHINGTON — Faced with the first big test of his new administration, United States President Donald Trump wanted to show he was in control. Not just as America's consoler-in-chief, but as its chief prosecutor and air accident investigator-in-chief too.
Do or DEI: Trump's assault on diversity divides America
AFP, Published on 28/01/2025
» WASHINGTON — For United States President Donald Trump's allies, his crackdown on the "illegal and immoral discrimination" of equal opportunities programs reflects a shifting electorate that has lost patience with ineffective and performative political correctness.
Tales from the river
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 25/03/2024
» In 1986, veteran artist Vorasan Supap was a freshman at the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts at Silpakorn University. He and his classmates lived together in their rented house next to Klong Bangkok Noi.