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Sanctioning Fever: The United States, European Union and Free Speech

Nigeria, Dec. 26 -- At present, there is a pot-calling-the-kettle-black approach being taken by the European Union and the United States regarding the imposition of sanctions upon individuals deemed h... Read More


Indiscriminate Suppression: Attacking pro-Palestinian Protests After the Bondi Killings

Nigeria, Dec. 24 -- It has become a wallowing cringe. The extolling of multi-culti values, the incessant self-praise of diversity, variety and cosmopolitanism, only to then impose, in the name of such... Read More


Ignoring International Obligations: Blocking UN Human Rights Delegates in Australia

Nigeria, Dec. 22 -- Bureaucracy, in a formulation by the great German sociologist Max Weber, fanatically defends secrecy, and is bound toconfect any explanation in doing so. When it comes to swatting ... Read More


Confusion at NATO: Rutte, Russia and Delusions about Trump

Nigeria, Dec. 18 -- It was a speech unhinged in millenarian zeal. It was unapologetically hysterical in urging war while claiming to protect peace. It was also delivered with a note of profound self-d... Read More


Using the Slain: Israel Exploits the Bondi Beach Shootings

Nigeria, Dec. 17 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rarely passes an opportunity to comment upon the way Jews in other countries are treated. While the manic hatred directed against Jews rem... Read More


Culinary Muddles at UNESCO: Italian Cuisine as Intangible Cultural Heritage

Nigeria, Dec. 16 -- Does Italian cuisine exist? Not according to Alberto Grandi, daring food historian and professor of economic history at the University of Parma. With much dedication, he has focuse... Read More


Schemes of Bankruptcy: The United Nations, Funding Dues and Human Rights

Nigeria, Dec. 11 -- The United Nations, in turning 80, has been berated, dismissed and libelled. In September, US President Donald Trump took a hearty swipe at the body's alleged impotence. "What is t... Read More


Perfectly Appropriate: Trump, Infantino and the FIFA Peace Prize

NIGERIA, Dec. 10 -- He craves it, and, to some extent, his desire was satisfied. President Donald Trump did get a peace prize. Not the peace prize picked out by self-important Norwegian non-entities, ... Read More


The Colby Review, AUKUS and Lopsided Commitments

NIGERIA, Dec. 9 -- In one of his many cutting observations about the fallibility of politicians, H. L. Mencken had this to say about the practical sort: "It is his business to convince the mob (a) tha... Read More


"Kill Everybody": War Crimes and Pete Hegseth's Lust for Blood

NIGERIA, Dec. 5 -- Pete Hegseth, the soap opera styled US Secretary of Defense, sports a questionable sanity. His behaviour before generals is the stuff of low comedy. His mania about sending narco-tr... Read More