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Markets may be sending a signal
News, Mike Dolan, Published on 12/08/2024
» What looks like a financial market in disarray may instead just be normalisation that will ultimately help insulate investment portfolios rather than sending them to the ground.
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.
Have we hit the limits to growth?
News, Michael Jacobs & Xhulia Likaj, Published on 23/05/2022
» Fifty years ago this spring, one of the most influential books of the twentieth century was published. Written for the Club of Rome by Donella Meadows and colleagues at MIT, The Limits to Growth used new computer models to forecast an uncontrollable collapse in the global population and economy if prevailing patterns of environmental resource use and pollution continued. Exponential economic growth could not go on forever; at some point in the next 100 years, it would inevitably run up against Earth's finite environmental limits.
Japan's calling
News, Postbag, Published on 23/01/2022
» Re: "Japan's post-Covid regional dilemma", (Opinion, Jan 21).
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.
Patriot games
News, Postbag, Published on 05/12/2019
» Re: "Elite hide behind phoney shield of 'patriotism'", (Opinion, Dec 3).
The golden age of the 'Hippie Trail'
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 08/09/2019
» Travelling long distances overland has always captured the imagination and it seems the passion still remains. Three Land Rovers stopped over in Bangkok earlier this week in what is being called "The Last Expedition" which is taking on the more than 14,000km journey overland from Singapore to London.
Uncivil tales
News, Postbag, Published on 19/04/2019
» Re: "Future Forward's Piyabutr denies charges", (BP, April 17).
Assange foolish not to go to Sweden
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/04/2019
» Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is an unattractive character, and he also has very poor judgement. He should have gone to Sweden seven years ago and faced the rape charges brought against him by two Swedish women. Even if he had been found guilty, he would probably be free by now under Swedish sentencing rules, since no violence was alleged in either case.