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Act now as Suu Kyi is gravely ill
Oped, Alan Clements, Published on 10/09/2025
» Just days ago, Kim Aris, the youngest son of 80-year-old Aung San Suu Kyi, told The Independent that his mother -- Myanmar's imprisoned democracy leader and Nobel Peace Laureate -- is gravely ill with worsening heart disease.
Time to 'Buy Thai'?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 03/07/2024
» Re: "Cheap imports levied VAT from July: Move expected to create a level playing field for domestic entrepreneurs", (Business, June 22).
Bright idea
Oped, Postbag, Published on 02/07/2024
» Re: "Cheap imports levied VAT from July: Move expected to create a level playing field for domestic entrepreneurs", (Business, June 22).
Without aid of whistleblowers, the West is lost
News, Slavoj Žižek, Published on 28/06/2023
» Earlier this month, CNN reported that a British court has denied WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange "permission to appeal an order to extradite him to the United States, where he faces criminal charges under the Espionage Act". Although Assange's legal team will continue to explore its options, the snare around his neck is clearly tightening. Time is not on his side. The US and British authorities who are pursuing him can afford to wait for any remaining public interest in his case to dwindle in the face of wars, climate change, anxiety about artificial intelligence, and other global issues.
Station confusion
Oped, Postbag, Published on 17/06/2023
» Re: "Yet another missing rail link", (Editorial, June 4) and "Partial Pink Line launch urged as traffic worsens", (BP, June 3).
The battle to destroy the whistleblowers
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/10/2021
» A long time ago now I was asked to do a television series about the world's intelligence services -- and I turned it down flat. My main reason was a feeling that there was less to the whole intelligence world than met the eye, and the subsequent 30 years have only served to confirm that judgement.
A higher principle
Oped, Postbag, Published on 03/02/2021
» Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon is quoted as saying "It's (Myanmar's) internal affair."
Honouring Assange, who is (almost) free at last
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/01/2021
» On Monday morning, a British judge finally rejected the US attempt to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and jail him forever (or at least for 175 years in a high-security 'supermax' prison) on the grounds that he is, as Joe Biden once called him, a "high-tech terrorist".
Assange hearing takes cues from Pentagon Papers
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 26/02/2020
» The cost of being a whistle-blower is going up. When Daniel Ellsberg stole and published the Pentagon Papers in 1971, revealing the monstrous lies that the US government was telling the American public about the Vietnam war, he was arrested and tried, but the court set him free.