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If in doubt, just slap another letter on the end. What started out as a movement to protect the rights of gays and lesbians has morphed into an unwieldy, wobbling alphabet soup of a concoction.  We’re up to LGBPTGQIAAA+.  Ready? That’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Pansexual, Transgender, Genderqueer, Queer, Intersexed, Agender, Asexual, …

The website listed a coin dubbed WallStreetBets (WSB) above the world’s top cryptocurrency, bitcoin, earlier this week. As of Sunday, WallStreetBets still outranked major cryptocurrencies, as it gained nearly 130 percent in the past 24 hours and over 1,160 percent in a week. The price of the WallStreetBets token is …

“Where is the line between a successful global business, in-demand services and consolidation of big data – and attempts to harshly and unilaterally govern society, replace legitimate democratic institutions, restrict one’s natural right to decide for themselves how to live, what to choose, what stance to express freely?” Putin wondered. Addressing …

Opining in the Washington Post on Saturday, New York University’s Cristina Beltran invented a new phenomenon, “multiracial whiteness,” to get around the uncomfortable fact that people of various skin colors can have sincere and legitimate political beliefs differing from her own. In Beltran’s book, good whites vote for “multiculturalism,” and …

Former Major General and Conservative Liberal Senator Jim Molan has confidently predicted that a war between China and America — that would involve Australia — would occur “within 3-5 years”. On the basis of this forecast, Molan, who served in the Australian army for 40 years, urged the Canberra government …

In the aftermath of the catastrophe on Capitol Hill, an opinion piece in the New York Times took the seemingly curious step of comparing the situation in the United States to post-Soviet Russia. The author noted that the parallels between those who had attempted to ransack Congress and those who …

In an address to mark the New Year on Friday, Henn Polluaas, the most senior figure in Estonia’s legislative assembly (the Riigikogu), decided to remind the Estonians of the Treaty of Tartu – a post-World War I peace agreement struck between the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and Estonia. “On …

In recent times, China and Russia have pulled away from the West and grown closer to each other with ever-strengthening economic ties. The new paradigm marks a profound geopolitical shift, given that, until the events of 2014 in Ukraine, Moscow had spent around 25 years pursuing a path to Western …

Photographs showing empty streets on Times Square, typically a hub of merry-making on New Year’s Eve, spread across social media on Thursday night, with several commentators noting that the mood was considerably more festive in Wuhan, the Chinese city where Covid-19 was first detected.  Life in Wuhan has mostly returned …

In comments made to the media on Christmas Eve, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov was critical of US policy toward Russia. Discussing the most recent round of economic sanctions levied by Washington against the country, Ryabkov accused the US of “accommodating the domestic needs of those interested in further …