Countries of the World
Aug 14th, 2019 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Countries of the World
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA. AUGUST 14, 2019. Yesterday the pro-democracy protests at the Hong Kong Airport (if these are quite the right words) broke through the bubble that usually shields US TV from too much contact with the outside global village. Now we can supplement our troubled research elsewhere with TV coverage on CNN and MSNBC. […]
Tags: Canada and Hong Kong, Democracy advantages, Elizabeth Warren on Hong Kong protests, Hong Kong airport closed by protesters, Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests, Justin Trudeau on Hong Kong protests, pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, Tiananmen Square Massacre Posted in Countries of the World |
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May 15th, 2019 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Countries of the World
[SCROLL DOWN FOR MAY 19/20 UPDATE ON ELECTION RESULTS]. With only a few days until voting on Saturday, May 18, the 2019 Australian federal election seems a closer thing than it appeared to be six months ago. (Fellow Commonwealth citizens in northern North America should also note that Australia is considerably further ahead of us […]
Tags: Australian election 2019, Australian Labor Party, Bill Shorten, Canada and Australia, ScottMorrison, Trudeau Liberals and Australia Posted in Countries of the World |
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Aug 24th, 2018 |
By Greg Barns |
Category: Countries of the World
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. REPORT FROM GREG BARNS. Australians used to laugh at Latin American nations like Argentina and Ecuador, which in recent decades turned over their leaders with astonishing regularity. But now the boot is well and truly on the other foot. Today saw the demise of Australia’s fifth Prime Minister in 11 years. The Liberal […]
Tags: Australian Labor Party and Republic issue, Canadian and Australian conservatives, Malcolm Turnbull deposed, right-wing insurgency in Australian Liberal party Posted in Countries of the World |
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Jul 20th, 2018 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: Countries of the World
Nowadays not even anglophone Canadian political junkies follow the domestic politics of the United Kingdom with anything like the interest that was common enough 100 years ago (judging from early 20th century newspapers). And the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)’s old role as a distributor of British TV programming to North American audiences, going back only […]
Tags: Amani Hughes, Chequers deal on Brexit, Clarity Act in Canada, Daily Mail, Donald Trump and Brexit, Economist on Theresa May, English Civil War, Hard & Soft Brexit, Harry Carr, John Gunther's America, Justine Greening, Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May, referendums in parliamentary democracies, Simon Walters and Brendan Carlin, Sky News Posted in Countries of the World |
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Sep 24th, 2016 |
By Greg Barns |
Category: Countries of the World
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. REPORT FROM GREG BARNS AND ANNA TALBOT. This past Tuesday Australia’s Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, stood in front of world leaders and claimed his government’s refugee policy was the best in the world. But many people in Australia will tell you that Mr Turnbull’s boasting was misplaced. Australia’s policy is based on deterrence, […]
Tags: Anna Talbot, Asylum seekers, Manus Island, Nauru Files, Peter Young, refugee policy in Australia Posted in Countries of the World |
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Aug 3rd, 2016 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: Countries of the World
[UPDATED AUGUST 4]. Does anyone really think the US presidential campaign of Donald Trump is the only weird thing going on in the global village right now ? Whatever else, the start of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro this coming Friday will confirm that this is a bizarre year across the planet. See, […]
Tags: Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazil Olympics 2016, Perry Anderson, Rio de Janeiro, Uri Friedman, US election 2016 Posted in Countries of the World |
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Jun 4th, 2016 |
By Citizen X |
Category: Countries of the World
As previously noted, the managing editor assigned me the task of reporting on the recent offshore conference, “Northern Europe (and Russia) in the spring of 2016” — from which everyone on the counterweights staff returned safe and sound, late last week. It is a task I have accepted in the past. But this year I […]
Tags: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bruges, Scandanavia and Russia cruise Posted in Countries of the World |
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Mar 27th, 2016 |
By Dominic Berry |
Category: Countries of the World
In the 1930s the local historian (and private school Latin teacher) Percy Robinson — author of the still invaluable Toronto during the French Regime, 1615–1793 — called Toronto, Ontario, Canada (all North American indigenous words) “the citadel of British sentiment in America.” On a somewhat earlier and more extreme, possibly even exaggerated variation on the […]
Tags: Canadian republic, Irish head of state model, Irish Rebellion 1916, parliamentary democracy in Canada Posted in Countries of the World |
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Jul 12th, 2015 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: Countries of the World
A few days ago my TV viewing partner and I caught up with the more or less new Grace of Monaco movie (aka Princess Grace on some listings), which in our part of the world apparently debuted on cable at the end of May this year. It’s directed by Olivier Dahan (from France) with a […]
Tags: European micro States, Grace of Monaco, Jacques Honoré Rainier, Monte Carlo Casino, Prince Albert II, Prince Rainier III Posted in Countries of the World |
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Oct 12th, 2014 |
By Citizen X |
Category: Countries of the World
What if you had already figured out that our earlier post here (“At the Berkeley Square-Bilbao Conference — our staff hard at work in Western Europe, last half of September”) was really just about another sordid case of that early 21st century mass middle-class tourism scourge known as the cruise? Taken by three remarkable senior […]
Tags: cruise diaries, IS, ISIL, ISIS, Obama's subtle foreign policy, Western Europe 2014 Posted in Countries of the World |
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