I have to tell you about the bone-flicking game I’ll never forget. It’s called Shagai Shüürekh, and the goal is deceptively simple: catapult a tiny […]
Author: Felix Abt
Felix Abt is a Swiss entrepreneur residing in Asia, who has lived in nine countries, including North Korea and Vietnam, and roamed many more on all continents, and who has never had any desire to lecture or even liberate other people. Fortunately, he has also never been arrested to this day.
His unconventional life experience has given him a somewhat unconventional view of things, which the conventional mainstream censors, but which he is happy to share on independent media portals. He holds the credo that one must praise where others criticize, and criticize where others praise. His Amazon author profile can be found here.
Tariff Payouts: Spectacle Over Strategy
When a government imposes sweeping tariffs and then proposes cash “dividends” from those tariffs, what looks like a populist windfall can hide serious structural hazards. […]
Nigeria’s Hidden War: Ethnic, Religious, or Resource-Driven?
From Insurgency to Systemic Violence In the West, politicians, activists, and media outlets often describe the violence in northern and central Nigeria as a genocide […]
Stopping the Murderous Khmer Rouge: How Vietnam Confronted Asia’s Forgotten Holocaust
In Cambodia, beauty and intellect became crimes: the beautiful were forced to marry the ugly, the educated to wed the illiterate. Cities, hospitals, and schools […]
Vietnam’s Government in Transformation: Simplifying Bureaucracy and Empowering Citizens
The changes span provinces, districts, and communes, aiming to improve efficiency, streamline administration, and make governance more accessible to the people. This overview explores what […]
The Pattern That Ends Empires: How Money Dies Before Nations Fall
To say this is the only cause would be an oversimplification. Empires rarely fall for one reason alone. Political corruption, social decay, foreign wars, and natural disasters […]
When Your “Free” Speech Costs You Your Bank Account
Censorship is no longer confined to the digital realm. Social media platforms can block content — but banks can do the same, quietly and invisibly. […]
Hawkish and Risky: Takaichi’s Course, the U.S., and Japan’s Future
From the Peace Constitution to Aggressive Rearmament Japan’s postwar constitution of 1947 – the so-called Peace Constitution – states in Article 9: “Land, sea, and […]