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Published on 15 April 2021 Postgraduate Researcher Despite severe restrictions implemented by governments in many countries to combat the current Covid-19 pandemic, protest and demonstrations have continued to take place around the world. In Angola, like elsewhere in Africa and beyond, these protests are being led by the youth with many resulting in police brutality and deaths. The country has been undergoing deep political and economic transformations before and during the current pandemic and young people who make up more than half of the population have ...

Bird Song of the Day At reader request, Birds of Australia. Duet with an insect. * * * #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching. That’s the stuff to give the troops. • Early in February, I said a simple way to compare Biden’s performance to Trump’s on vaccination would be to compare the curves. If Biden accelerated vaccine administration, the rate of vaccination post-Inaugural would kink upward, as the policies of a more effective adminis...

The writer is an author and a lawyer based in Mumbai. STATES have a brazenly inconsistent behaviour whenever their conduct on human rights towards their own citizens is criticised by foreigners especially by foreign governments or their human rights activists. It began with prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, became worse under Indira Gandhi and has reached its nadir under Narendra Modi. Indira Gandhi’s remarks at a press conference on Oct 15, 1983, were presumptuous to a degree. She said, “We don’t interfere in the internal affairs of other countries. But it has never prevented us from ex...

There’s so much to take issue with in this recent Atlantic Council report by arch Russophobe, Swedish economist and senior fellow at the Council Anders Aslund, that it’s hard to know where to begin. His paper, written jointly with Russian social activist Leonid Gozman, entitled "Russia after Putin: How to rebuild the state" is a masterpiece in western pro-regime change propaganda. The "Regime is falling apart" the report asserts, "we do not know when and how Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime will end, but there are signs that it is struggling and the end could ...

How to put pressure on government officials. Srdja Popovic was one of the leaders of the Serbian youth movement Otpor, which helped topple Slobodan Milosevic in October 2000. After the victory of the revolution, he founded the Center for Applied Non-violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS), and, in 2015, his book "Plan of the Revolution" was published. Popovich told Radio Svaboda how the Serbian opposition tried to win over the security forces, why activists should read the Chinese strategist Sun Tzu, and how the fight against the dictatorship is similar to football. Why the 2000 revolution in...