‘Off off the record’ with the man who secretly taped our telephone calls.’ I left the New York Times in 1979, after many good stories and some […]
Category: Eyewitness Reports
Democracy in Myanmar – Is the country on the brink of Civil War?
Almost three years on from the coup that overthrew the first truly democratic government the country had seen since the 1960’s Myanmar and its ethnic […]
Apartheid In Israel: Then And Now. Reasons Behind The Incessant Violence
The illegal Israeli settlement of Pisgat Zeev, built in a suburb of the mostly Arab east Jerusalem, and the Palestinian Shuafat refugee camp, behind Israel’s […]
The Sad End to Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh)
With all the hullabaloo around Ukraine and now Israel you might have missed an extremely important event, namely the destruction of an independent democracy at […]
The Inconvenient Truth of Xinjiang
Due to the recent discovery that Uyghur academic, Rahile Dawut has been sentenced to life imprisonment in China, Xinjiang is back in the news, but […]
Minority languages in China are suppressed, claim the Western media. But China is not Ukraine, I’m sorry!
Kids say openly what comes into their mind – in their native language If you walk past a kindergarten at the moment the doors open […]
In the ostensibly dictatorial China, how are criticism and complaints handled?Very different from the tale you’ve been fed!
Laws in China are different, there’s a very good reason and that’s because people in China are different – this isn’t a racist statement it’s […]
In Western scaremongering, the alleged Chinese social credit system or social credit score is played up, but does it even exist?
One of my favourite questions to ask in a group of Chinese, especially a group of people I’ve never met before is: 您的社会信用评分是多少 (Ní de […]