History gets in the way of the future. It prevents us to release the peace doves, as they would get shot by the next psycho with a gun. 

Robert Kagan warns us about global authoritarianism:

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp wants Australia to break up Alphabet-owned Google.

Debt is higher than before the global financial crisis, making the world vulnerable to economic and market shocks, S&P Global Ratings has warned.

INTERVIEW WITH THIERRY MEYSSAN 3/3

There is no search for Truth without analysis of the original documents

Considering that in the 1980s, Pope John Paul II decreed there is no sexlife in the afterlife, one needs to ponder about the implications.

Today’s (9 3 19) the Daily Telegraphicrappish is spewing chips at newcomers invading its turf — Google, Facebook and others with digitation of news — to the news market. Robert Thomson, News Corp’s CEO, has slammed the smugness of the digital giants, the apathy of politicians and the somnambulism of regulators — warning lawmakers to deal with the “potency of dominant algorithms and the anti-social potential of social media”. 

Nadya Krupskaya

How International Women's Day went from starting a revolution to corporate breakfasts

By Annika Blau

On a winter's morning in Petrograd, women begin streaming onto the streets. 

This cartoon (2009) by Rolf Heimann for Overland was in tandem with Richard Moore, the Melbourne film festival director, being grilled by the Chinese why a movie about Rebiya Kadeer should be in the Festival... (see also: and don't mention huavei...)

Yet, Overland had some issues with Richard Moore:

2009 was a good year... for the "reshaping of our global economic system" — no change except it's getting worse.

Make no mistake, Donald Trump kicked off his campaign for 2020 on Tuesday night when he delivered the State of the Union address.

Expect "socialism" to become a very dirty word (if it isn't already).

Stricter festival regulations in New South Wales have received some colourful, high-profile criticism from Californian rock band the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who described the rules as "outlandish" and "stupid".

Last week, environment minister Melissa Price and energy minister Angus Taylor once again hit the airwaves, lying to the public on Australia’s carbon emissions, claiming that emissions are falling.