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Iranians protest the government in Winter 2017/2018 (AFP/FILE) One of the most tired and worn-out cliches to be trundled out of the back cupboard every few months by British opinion writers is the comparison of the present day with George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.  The latest in this series comes in the form of an opinion piece in The Guardian, called China v Russia v America: is 2021 the year Orwell’s 1984 comes true? In the article, the author, Simon Tisdall...

Fascinating thoughts on China and Russia testing Biden with a double action… There are fears China and Russia could coordinate respective invasions of Taiwan and Ukraine, stretching the military resources of the United States and testing new President Joe Biden. It comes as tensions mount in Crimea and Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region – where Russia keeps deploying more troops – and around Taiwan in the South China Sea, where the US is already responding to an increased Chinese military ...

High school students crave critical thinking, but adults keep interrupting them Testing, scheduling and encouragement videos distract my students from the work of thinking and debating. Math students calculate algebra equations in their classroom, which was built in the middle of a former department store, at Downtown Burlington High School, March 22, 2021, in Burlington, Vt.(Charles Krupa) By David Newman When I know my students have not done much original thinking about literature, I ask the...

Propaganda of none state actors Propaganda of none state actors Branding is propaganda, Marketing is propaganda and Public Relations is propaganda. In other words, propaganda is a nuetral concept that can be used either for good or for bad. The concept of propaganda has been used to advance the greatest course of humanity, it has also been used to advance its cruelest. Propaganda was used to set Africa free from colonialism, it was also used to pitch it against each other in war. Propaganda was...

Scotlands answer to Cornwall (without the crowds) George Orwell declared this remote Hebridean outlier as "extremely ungetatable" Forget Cornwall – head to Jura instead Credit: Getty There is something about Jura; there must be. George Orwell declared this remote Hebridean outlier “extremely ungetatable”, but then spent years writing his darkly dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four here, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty (aka the KLF) torched a cool £1 million there in 1994, and this year Greg Co...

Game of Thrones ended in 2019 but George RR Martin still hasn’t finished the next novel in his Song of Ice and Fire series, the books that inspired the globally popular HBO drama. Alas, no word on when that might happen. But impatient fans may have something else to look forward to: the return of favourite characters such as Ned Stark and Jaime Lannister in a stage adaptation of Game of Thrones that is being developed in the hope of productions on Broadway, in London’s West End and i...

China demands love as it represses Hong Kong ANI | Updated: Mar 15, 2021 19:28 IST Hong Kong, March 15 (ANI): If you can believe the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), then the former British colony of Hong Kong is thriving because of the formers magnanimity. The truth is that Beijing is determinedly stifling Hong Kong and turning it into a mimeograph of the rest of authoritarian China. Interestingly, Xi Jinpings Party Work Report in 2017 stated (emphasis added...

Alexei Navalny was missing for nearly two weeks before resurfacing at a notorious prison colony 100 kilometres away from Moscow

Alexei Navalny has been transferred to a penal colony where he has compared the conditions to a concentration camp.The Russian opposition leader, 44, said that he was woken every hour at night by

Six weeks after a coup the military repression is escalating with human rights activists saying ‘crimes against humanity’ are likely being committed. Foreign Editor David Pratt examines a brutal crackdown by an army with form in committing atrocities For many Burmese it has brought new meaning to the term “night terrors”. Online the hashtag #nightdragging is used by many residents among Myanmar’s towns and cities to help band together and co-ordinate warnings and resistance to the n...