Things I want to send my kids to show what's caught my attention while reading, watching, listening....
“What does [Andrew] Marshall’s lengthy expose—published just days before Thailand’s general election—reveal? The documents indicate that Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, who is next in line to the throne, has health problems, that an increasingly influential Queen Sirikit supports the Yellow Shirt movement that helped oust prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in a 2006 coup, and that the country could face a succession crisis when the ailing King Bhumibol dies. Ultimately, the BBC notes, “many of the issues raised in the cables are known about and discussed privately in Thailand. But there is a taboo around their public discussion in the country.”
There is a link in the article to a PDF of his expose you can download. It’s titled:
THAILAND’S MOMENT OF TRUTH: A SECRET HISTORY OF 21ST CENTURY SIAM
Of course, since that time Thailand has elected its first female prime minister….. Thaksin’s younger sister….
