AMERICA: A REPUBLIC The Founding Fathers did not call it a democracy, but a republic. They saw a pure democracy as leading to unchecked populism, where the interests of minorities would be ignored or marginalised, To demonstrate that concern, the...
The arrest in France of the owner of social media platform Telegram for “possible criminality” in terms of French media laws, should be a frightening indicator of the onset of globalist, Orwellian hegemony (The Mercury, August 26). Implementation...
Reuters report summing up the closure of the Democratic Party’s Chicago congress by claiming Kamala Harris’s “racial roots as best suited” to America’s future, totally evades the actual issues at stake in the 2024 US election (The...
The facts about monkeypox do not square with the declaration by the WHO of a “public health emergency of international concern” (The Mercury, August 16). First detected in the Congo in 1970, the prevalence of monkeypox has never been widespread...
It is surprising that it has taken experts to diagnose what ails eThekwini Municipality (The Mercury, August 15) when the cause of its progressive decline has long been obvious. Amongst its maladies, the experts list, are: non-achievement of...
White House resident Joe Biden’s assertion that Trump is a ‘danger to the security of the US’ (The Mercury, August 12) is simultaneously an honest and dishonest statement. It is dishonest because the unambiguous goal of Trump and the Republican...
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