Tag: Totalitarianism
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Georgia’s ruling-party threatens Opposition ban, but stalls process
Georgia’s disputed ruling party announced plans to ban major opposition parties in October last year. However, as the deadline approaches, it appears to be trying to prolong the process. It all started in October 2025, when, after months of preparing the groundwork, Georgian Dream officially filed a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court to ban three…
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Only the government is moderate – everyone else is an extremist
We remember very well how Joseph Muscat and his friends, including his asinine and vacuous consultant, Robert Abela used to accuse Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil of extremism for his fight against corruption. Well, today, Robert Abela doesn’t have any regrets about accusing others of “extremism” when Joseph Muscat went to historical extremes with corruption and…
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Who is Robert Abela and why does he want to muzzle the press?
To understand why Robert Abela wants to muzzle the press, one can simply get to know who he is and this is not a difficult feat. Robert Abela is a very shallow and simple person, predictable and easily scrutable. Behind his fictitious narratives and all the pretending, there is an open book riddled with battles…
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This is how the state broadcaster celebrates Daphne’s murder anniversary
A country doesn’t necessarily become totalitarian overnight. The process can be slow and steady. The Broadcasting Authority falls under the Prime Minister’s office. Mark CamilleriWebsite Editor Historian and Publisher
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Robert Abela’s obsession with “the people”
Yesterday, it was Daphne’s five-year anniversary since she was murdered. Prime Minister Robert Abela chose, yet again not to commemorate her. He has yet to visit her memorial where she was murdered in Bidnija. Instead of commemorating her, he held a partisan meeting at the Labour club of ?ebbu? to a crowd of fewer than…
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Just in case you have doubts about Malta’s slide to totalitarianism
A man in Malta has just been fined 1,500 for calling a minister of the government, “shit”. Hate laws which were initially introduced to protect minorities from racism and discrimination are being abused by politicians to prevent anyone from insulting them. These laws should be abrogated. Clearly, you can’t give a weapon to a Labour…
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From Front Against Censorship to military committees
Recently, I have learned that one’s principles are tested by time. It seems to me that most of my previous friends at the Labour Party have no principles at all as their positions and principles change by convenience. Or it seems that they have no spine as Robert Abela tightens his grip on the Party,…
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Pinkwashing totalitarianism
I write this with a sense of sadness and pessimism for the near future, but simultaneously with a lot of optimism for the long term. There was a time during the Nationalist administrations when the opposition to the government was overwhelmed with a great sense of helplessness and that whatever happens, Labour would remain in…
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From Labour’s totalitarian press reform: Journalism is ok but not when it is about “private matters”
The Labour Party is pushing a totalitarian press reform without consultation which will create a military committee to oversee the press and enact SLAPP laws in Malta. The draft bill will also create a new limitation on journalism on private matters which will be introduced in the constitution. This limitation is a gross overreach that…
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This corrupt bureaucrat who fired the Egrant investigator will “protect” journalists’ interests in a military committee
Tony Sultana, the Principal Permanent Secretary who will head the military committee which will “oversee the protection of journalists and public officers” fired the Egrant IT investigator from his public post when he was the head of MITA. So, the same bureaucrat who covered up for Joseph Muscat will now oversea my protection. Insane what…