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The Gangster's Brief: The Barr Doctrine, Noriega and Maduro

Nigeria, Jan. 27 -- US President Donald Trump might leave an impression of violent novelty, at least for the leader of a nominal liberal democracy, soiling international relations with the gangster's ... Read More


The Global Billionaire Steal: Wealth, Authoritarianism and Media

Nigeria, Jan. 26 -- It's official. This tormented, heated, traumatised planet is now home to over 3,000 billionaires. (That number was reached last year.) In October 2025, Elon Musk became the first m... Read More


Payola Laws: The Gilding of Golden Tonsils

Nigeria, Jan. 23 -- Last month's eulogising of the late Australian "shock jock" John Laws has been revealing on the state of health of what is laughably left of the Fourth Estate. It's a telling, soci... Read More


Carney at Davos: Removing that Sign in the Window

Nigeria, Jan. 22 -- "It seems that every day we're reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry - that the rules-based order is fading, that the strong can do what they can, and the weak mus... Read More


Sleepwalking on the Money: Inequality, Surveillance and the Cashless Society

Nigeria, Jan. 19 -- Like all new frontiers touted as necessary and worthwhile, the cashless society is advertised as a supremely convenient way to facilitate financial transactions while avoiding such... Read More


A Cruel Truce: Israel's Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

Nigeria, Jan. 15 -- What matters peace if it permits killing, maiming and destroying the infrastructure of a society supposedly once at war? This is the situation facing Gaza as the occupying Israeli ... Read More


Festival of Cowardice: The Cancellation of Randa Abdel-Fattah

Nigeria, Jan. 13 -- Boards of directors are a funny bunch. Often lacking expertise, claiming knowledge they do not have and insight that never illuminates, its members can make the cockup the stuff of... Read More


The Politics of Premature Adjudication: The Bondi Royal Commission

Nigeria, Jan. 9 -- Royal commissions are often held to confirm the obvious and squeak for modest change. They offer no binding remedies, have no compellable powers against the government of the day, a... Read More


The Don-roe Doctrine in Action: Trump's Gangster Intervention in Venezuela

Nigeria, Jan. 4 -- It has been an accusation long levelled at certain US politicians that their brains might have been softened by a lengthy diet of television, Westerns, and the heroic triumphalism o... Read More


Spyware and Murder: The NSO Group, Governments and Khashoggi

Nigeria, Dec. 31 -- The efforts to hold the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia accountable for the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in its Istanbul consulate in October 2018 continue. In his ... Read More