World’s Worst 5 Dictators of the 21st Century—Number 1 Makes Stalin Look Like Santa Claus
SUNNY CHAO | EPOCH TIMES The 20th century has seen tyrants like none in the history of the world—Mao, Stalin, Hitler—and well over 100 million have been killed during those hundred years. The 21st century, meanwhile, is not lacking in comparison in terms of brutal dictators—indeed, some of these updated despots may even excel beyond their predecessors in […]
Classic Christmas Carols, Satirically Reimagined as Songs About Hong Kong Politics
Oiwan Lam | Global Voices A set of Christmas Songs has gone viral on Hong Kong social media during the holiday season. Shared more than 1,470 times and viewed more than 190,000 times, the songs are no ordinary Christmas carols. The lyrics are rewritten with wit to capture major social and political sagas that have […]
Even Santa Can't Escape Toxic Smog in China
<![CDATA[Oiwan Lam | Global Voices This article by Oiwan Lam originally appeared on Global Voices on 26 December 2015. During Christmas as toxic smog spread from the northern provinces to central China, the country’s netizens expressed concern that air pollution will become the new “normal” as official state media continues to twist a positive angle out of the bad news. On […]