As a nation Japan would not win many Nobel peace prizes. For centuries its pirates pillaged Chinese coastal towns. In the 19th century carve-up of China, Japan gained Taiwan, the Liaodong peninsula and later Manchuria. In 1910 it colonised Korea. In 1937 it began its attack into China proper, killing close to an estimated 20 million Continue reading »
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The social media pressure campaign was just a part of the pharmaceutical industry's successful lobbying blitz to retain patents — and make record profits.
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"Medicare Advantage is a money-making scam. I should know. I helped to sell it."
Former Merkel adviser General Vad has criticized the Ukraine war. Yet it still seems that sympathetic Germans are afraid to speak up.
The Opposition leader the Dark Lord Peter Dutton has today launched what he hopes to be the Coalition’s election winning slogan of: ”We’re Not Racist, But….. ”I’d like to start today’s presser by declaring that I am not racist, but,”... Read More ›
The U.S., having no need of or gift for statecraft, has long practiced what I’ve taken to calling the diplomacy of no diplomacy. You can’t expect much from bimbos such as Antony Blinken or Wendy Sherman, Blinken’s No. 2 at the State Department. All they can do is roar, even if they are mice next Continue reading »
Representatives of Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion have been touring Israel to drum up support for the unit’s imprisoned fighters. They have been meeting with Israeli politicians and soldiers. Azov intelligence officer Illia Samoilenko was released in a prisoner exchange with Russia in September. He had been one of the hundreds of Azov fighters who surrendered in May Continue reading »
If you believe that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked, then perhaps you should read no further. And, if you believe that Vladimir Putin will allow the United States and Europe to bring Ukraine into the Western security orbit, then once again you should read no further. But if you acknowledge the provocations that Continue reading »
It was 1967 in America. I was a student at Drew University and it was my role on the Student Council to invite speakers for the student forums. I wrote to Dr King. Would he come to speak to us? He wrote back to say he would. I booked the auditorium and put the notice Continue reading »