Yale Kamisar passed away 30 January 2022 aged 92. He was an American legal scholar and writer and Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. Most of us have not heard of him, but his impact on the legal world was ground-breaking. He is known in legal circles as “Father of Miranda”.
If you’ve ever watched an American cop making an arrest on screen, you would probably have heard these words before:
I made one of my occasional forays into Facebook earlier today and was prompted with a memory of a post I shared 5 years ago. It was written by Scott Mednick , when a Facebook friend told him, "We suffered for the last 8 years. Now it’s your turn.” (This, of course, as a result of Donald Trump being sworn in as president of the United States.)
Before we get into the gist of what I'm talking about, here's an executive summary of what triggered this thought process:
United States president Joe Biden has been making a lot of noises about appointing an African-American woman to the country’s Supreme Court
There was much schadenfreude among financial journalists this week after Facebook’s holding company’s share price dropped by 26%.
Pause for a moment with me and just imagine: One day, you’re at your ailing mother’s bedside; 24 hours later, you’re thrust with the burden of noblesse oblige as the daughter of the man who freed your country from colonial oppression, and you find yourself flagbearer for a nascent revolution against the very forces that your father created when he and his comrades sipped their shared blood from a silver chalice 47 years earlier.
One year ago, today, 1 February 2021, the democratically elected government of Myanmar was deposed by the country's military.
Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the ruling National League for Democracy and de facto Prime Minister was arrested along with other leaders of her party.
Notwithstanding that the NLD had won the November 2020 general election by a landslide, the Myanmar military declared the results fraudulent.
The day marked a bitterly ironic full circle for Aung San Suu Kyi.
After World War II, the British Empire confronted the law of diminishing returns with regard to their looting and pillaging of their colonial territories.
So, they pulled out, but divided those territories in a manner that was generally certain to provoke sectarian conflicts.
Some of these territories pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, and became thriving secular states — India and Singapore being prime examples.
My commentary last week on how the Ukraine conflict is likely to play out evoked a question from a reader : "How is it possible in ZAs media landscape that the best analysis commentary is from a private blog, and in media houses the only international news are Reuters ticker subscriptions"?
Here's a question where the answer might seem obvious, but is not: If you were going to buy a Tesla in Japan, what's the best way to do that?
If you answered, "I would import it from Shanghai," you would be correct.
If you get your news analysis from the likes of CNN, BBC, The Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, you're probably not aware that the world's largest trade pact came into effect on New Year's Day 2022.
