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Navalny meets his fateful end The death of Alexei Navalny is as predictable as it is deplorable. After all, any Russian who becomes a thorn in the side of Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime ends up dead. And Navalny was the thorniest of them all. Not least because of the way he lampooned Putin for living like a czar… Read more.
Frankly, bitching about human rights in Qatar is rather like awarding China the next World Cup and then bitching about Orwellian censorship there. Read more.
I know, complaining about President Trump’s hypocrisy is rather like complaining about a prostitute’s promiscuity. Except that the former portends consequences that could destroy a country (even the whole world), which makes those the latter portends seem like nothing more than a genital itch. That said, Trump’s America-First policy towards Cuba amounts to little more… Read more.
I usually reserve updates to my commentaries for the annual compilation I publish in book form. Therefore, it is rather ironic that this is my second update this week. Here, in part, is what I wrote about this still-unfolding saga two days ago: Why continue the trade embargo against Cuba but trade with China? The… Read more.
No doubt you’ve heard the indignant whining by Western reporters covering the Olympics about the number of Internet sites (related to Tibet and other embarrassing political matters) that have been blocked by the Chinese government. But I find most of their complaints in this respect impudent and patently disingenuous. After all, these Western reporters accepted their coveted assignments knowing full… Read more.
