As Australia finally withdraws Covid vaccines for children, Ramesh Thakur says the fact that 99% of one country's Covid deaths occurred after 75% were vaccinated should have made it obvious the benefits were illusory.
Sixteen healthcare practitioners committed suicide after being targeted by a regulatory process in Australia between 2018 and 2021. Too often the regulator is weaponised against dissenters, says Ramesh Thakur.
The WHO catastrophically mishandled Covid, and yet, says Ramesh Thakur, it has been rewarded with more power, more money and even less accountability.
India’s new doctrine of hitting back hard against terrorism in Pakistan marks a new era, writes Ramesh Thakur. It has abandoned its old restraint in favour of an Israel-style playbook of strike-first deterrence.
There's method in Trump's tariff madness, says Ramesh Thakur. Uniting his America First, anti-Net Zero and anti-DEI policies is an imperative to untangle the US from strategic dependence on an ascendant China.
What if warfare is the normal condition of human society, and peace the exception that requires explanation? Ramesh Thakur looks at some longstanding conflicts and asks how peace might be finally achieved.
96% of US law professors are Democrat donors. It's a reflection of how extreme the anti-conservative bias in the law profession has become, says Ramesh Thakur. How can we hold politically biased judges to account?
Trump's art of the deal always has been to ask for everything, judge the point at which the other party has made his final offer and then take what he can get, says Ramesh Thakur. That's what he's doing with Ukraine.
In light of JD Vance's stirring speech in Munich, we're republishing Ramesh Thakur's article from July, when Trump announced Vance as his VP pick – and thus spelled the long-overdue end of the neoconservative movement.
In a wholly unexpected but welcome development, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls has released a report highlighting the risks to women of trans 'women' in female sport, says Ramesh Thakur.
