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Fiendish Experiments: Trump's Guantanamo Bay Migrant Detentions

Nigeria, Feb. 28 -- Guantanamo Bay has been a fiendish experiment in US law for decades. The fiendishness lies in the subversion. Operating as a naval base in Cuba, this contentious facility has been ... Read More


Israel's Annexation Drive: The West Bank and Expelling Palestinian Refugees

Nigeria, Feb. 26 -- It has the feeling of a ghastly ending, one pushed along by desperation and eagerness. First, levelling Gaza and turning it to an uninhabitable moonscape, with the promise of a ter... Read More


Gloominess and Magical Thinking: The Comical, Frightening Mike Burgess

Nigeria, Feb. 25 -- Never allow intelligence chiefs to speak publicly. Their prerogative lies in lying, their reassurance, cool deception. While the attractions of transparency are powerful, the resul... Read More


Cowardice and Cancellation: Creative Australia and the Venice Biennale

Nigeria, Feb. 23 -- Cowardice is the milk that runs in the veins of many event organisers, especially when it comes to those occasions that might provoke the unmanaged unexpected. The same organisers ... Read More


Second Endings: Terminating Neighbours (Again)

Nigeria, Feb. 22 -- Soppy, soapy and interminable, the Australian series Neighbours, the staple for millions of British (and Australian) watchers for years, their tonic and medication from reality, is... Read More


Feeling Very Fine: Picasso the Printmaker at the British Museum

Nigeria, Feb. 18 -- This is Pablo Picasso the way he is rarely seen - at least in so far as the hundred or so pieces at the British Museum's Picasso: Printmaker have been displayed. The viewer is trea... Read More


Far From Benign: The US Aid Industrial Complex

Nigeria, Feb. 13 -- The US aid program began in earnest in the early stages of the Cold War, with an intention to beat off the contenders from the Soviet bloc in the postcolonial world. President Harr... Read More


Cutting the Ghost Budget: Elon Musk versus the Pentagon

Nigeria, Feb. 11 -- The rampaging antics of a querulous, sociopathic tech oligarch as he busies himself identifying which government departments to raid, trim, if not abolish altogether, understandabl... Read More


A Thief's Mentality: Trump, Real Estate and Dreams of Ethnic Cleansing

Nigeria, Feb. 10 -- President Donald J. Trump likes teasing out the unmentionable, and the Israel-Palestinian situation was hardly going to be any different. With a touch of horror and the grotesque, ... Read More


Funeral Atmospherics at the British Library

Nigeria, Jan. 30 -- On October 23, 2023, the British Library, one of the world's finest repositories of knowledge, was subjected to a cyber-attack. Some 600GB of files, including the personal data of ... Read More