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Commentary

Solidarity with the poor, defending labor rights

BY OTTO DE VRIES (Testimonial of Otto De Vries on the Order to Leave of the Bureau of Immigration based on the false allegations of...

No (Facebook) news to read in Australia

AS OF midnight (Australia), Facebook has blocked many sources of news for their users. A number of sites simply report “no posts” and thus...

Called out

THE AUSTRALIAN Open tennis tournament is using the new hawk-eye electronic line-calling system rather than line umpires, a sensible move given COVID restrictions although...

I’m ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille

IN A seemingly unusual move, ex-US president Donald Trump has resigned from the Screen Actors Guild just before he was going to be thrown...

Tax to charity

THERE are reports that Barcelona is considering legal action in relation to a newspaper publishing details of a contract for Lionel Messi. There seems to...

‘I’ll be back?’

ALTHOUGH there are only days to go, the Trumps have not invited the new tenants, the Bidens, over for a welcome cup of coffee....

Who was that unmasked man?

RECOGNITION sometimes happens easily. Twitter blocked @realDonaldTrump for obvious reasons and soon realised the same misguided voice was speaking via @TeamTrump and blocked it too,...

Time to switch it off

FACEBOOK and Twitter have finally stopped Donald Trump from posting, even if it is only for a short time. This was as a result of...

Sonya Gregorio’s ‘I don’t care’ as subversion

BY JHIO JAN NAVARRO THE FOOTAGE of Police Senior Master Sergeant Jonel Nuezca firing point-blank at civilian mother and son, Sonya Gregorio and Frank Anthony...

The winner for 2020

THE YEAR 2020 has been a year of hardships for many and yet the strength of human spirit has shone through in so many...