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    Rule by law

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 18/11/2018

    » As RoboCop said to arch villain Clarence Boddicker in the climactic scene of the original movie: "I'm not arresting you any more." Rather than bringing them to justice, the green shirts now hope to be able merely to bring the world's only brother-sister fugitive ex-prime minister duo to heel.

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    A bad week

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 25/02/2018

    » Bad week for the military regime. The antediluvians in green absorbed punishment from foreigners galore. Worse, at home, protesters judged to be disloyal Thais went on the streets. And after three years, eight months and some days, the courts put on their steel-toed boots and confronted the regime's rules.

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    Decline and fall

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 04/02/2018

    » It now becomes pretty predictable, until the moment of push comes to shove-them-out. The form of the actual end game remains unknown but the beginning has ended, and the end has begun.

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    The Intimidation Game

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 22/10/2017

    » The military government has a propaganda unit. People know this, including reporter-people, which includes us, and editor-people. But they still call the chief manipulator of regime propaganda a "government spokesman". A two-star general whose sole task is to justify military actions without ever admitting an error was possible is also, on all front pages and news broadcasts, a military "spokesman".

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    Tortured verdict

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 27/08/2017

    » A truly pathetic moment in morality and warfare and diplomatic relations has ended without a whimper, let alone the attention it deserved.

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    The third Chinese curse

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 20/08/2017

    » It's unclear why Seh Pete went so aggressively and even excessively after Pai Dao Din.

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    Real cut-ups

    News, Alan Dawson, Published on 04/06/2017

    » Killing someone in cold blood takes a special kind of mindset, where by "special" we mean brutally disordered. Choking and then battering the victim, then saying "Now hand me the saw" is well beyond special.

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    The big issue: The Tweet

    Alan Dawson, Published on 13/12/2015

    » It took one hour and 19 minutes for United States Ambassador Glyn Davies to annoy the super-patriots and ultra-royalists when he told journalists on Nov 25 his government detests the detention of protesters and lese majeste convicts. A week later, United Kingdom Ambassador Mark Kent beat that time by an hour, 18 minutes and 55 seconds.

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    The big issue: The week in terrorism

    Alan Dawson, Published on 29/11/2015

    » Around the world and around the country, we were all Belgians. Brussels lowered the national terror alert on Friday from “imminent” to “serious and credible”. (Fact check: True. Reality check: Who could make it up?) One day it was “be very afraid” and a mere day later it had dropped to “be afraid”.

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    The big issue: A degree of intervention

    Alan Dawson, Published on 09/08/2015

    » There was a certain air of mystery about the publication of this year’s United States human trafficking report which now has been mostly solved.

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