The Road to Kamalot
As a diversity pick thrice over – female, black, South Asian – with no popular mandate, Kamala Harris is the perfect candidate for the modern Democratic Party, says Ramesh Thakur. The election is Trump's to lose.
As a diversity pick thrice over – female, black, South Asian – with no popular mandate, Kamala Harris is the perfect candidate for the modern Democratic Party, says Ramesh Thakur. The election is Trump's to lose.
Europeans' tolerance has been tested to breaking point, says Ramesh Thakur. They would like their countries, stolen from them in fits of absentmindedness, back, thank you very much.
ICC prosecutor Karim Khan's comparison between Israel and Hamas is utter nonsense, says Ramesh Thakur. Where to even begin when a man in such a critically important office betrays such jaw-dropping ignorance?
Ramesh Thakur, who as a senior UN official helped set up the ICC, says he will regret his involvement if the court goes ahead and allows the arrest of Israel's leaders.
Advocating for the recognition of COVID-19 dissenters by the Nobel committee, Ramesh Thakur is not holding his breath as he casts a critical eye back over previous winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Horizon Post Office scandal has many parallels with the Covid saga, says Ramesh Thakur. Such as the blind faith in technology, the gongs for goons and the deafness to innocent people suffering.
Across the world, the official Covid inquiries are a sham, says former UN Assistant Secretary-General Ramesh Thakur. We need real inquiries if we're going to restore people's faith in public authorities.
The spreading dominance of the woke agenda was a key enabling environment in 2020 for the Covid interventions, says Ramesh Thakur. "Wokism is a war on Western civilisation and empirical science."
The boundary between liberal democracy and draconian dictatorship proved to be virus thin, writes Professor Ramesh Thakur. Tools of repression became uncomfortably familiar on the streets of Western democracies.
Relations between Canada and India are in a tailspin after Trudeau alleged India was behind the June 18th killing of an alleged Sikh terrorist. But what's the truth of the matter, asks Ramesh Thakur.
Pronouns are a social-linguistic device for objectively differentiating males from females according to biological facts, not a matter of subjective individual preference, argues Ramesh Thakur.
Ramesh Thakur laments the rise of corporate fascism that fuses the power of the state, corporations and social media and technology giants to impose a reality-denying religion of 'social justice' on the populace.
