What Defunding USAID is Really About
February 05, 2025John Daniel Davidsdon of The Federalist offers some perspective on the real reason the Trump administration has targeted the U.S. Agency for International Development ("USAID").
James Jay Carafano, Senior Counselor to the President and Heritage Foundation Fellow, analyzes what he calls " the biggest geopolitical shift in the world...the rise of global conservatism."
In an unprecedented move, President Trump has cancelled $4 billion worth of United States pledges made under the Biden administration to the United Nation's Green Climate Fund.
John Daniel Davidsdon of The Federalist offers some perspective on the real reason the Trump administration has targeted the U.S. Agency for International Development ("USAID").
In a memo to its employees, Google has changed its policies regarding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion ("DEI"), no longer citing that as a goal which it will pursue.
The Editors of National Review lay out their arguments supporting Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord.
Following President Trump's announcement to pull out of the Paris Agreement on climate change earlier this week, 24 U.S. states pledge to continue their work to achieve these goals in a letter addressed to the UN Climate Change Executive Secretary.
Jim Jordan has sent a letter to Henna Virkkunen at the European Commission asking for more information regarding how the European Union's Digital Services Act will be enforced against American companies.
National Review commends Trump's criticism of EU regulations and their effect on U.S. companies, but urges caution regarding retaliation, warning that excessive tariffs could "penalize American consumers and fail to address the policy issues at hand."
In a submission sent to the European Commission this week, France joins Germany in calling for the easing of the EU's "green reporting rules."
Fred Fleitz, former National Security Council chief of staff, CIA analyst, and House intelligence Committee staff member, questions the narrative given by the FBI and mainstream media that the New Orleans terrorist, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was "self-radicalized."
Operatives from Turkey's ruling Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) are working closely with members of the militant neo-nationalist Aydinlik group and US-sanctioned Russian disinformation experts in a systematic, anti-Western, propaganda campaign aimed at tarring the AKP opposition coalition as puppets of NATO and at fully rupturing Turkey's Transatlantic orientation.
Africa's Sahel and Maghreb regions have become frontline zones of conflict between competing Islamist militant groups, with al-Qaeda Islamic Maghred (AQIM) and Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) engaged on their respective digital platforms in an escalating battle for ideological hegemony in global jihadism, concomitant with an expanding and increasingly violent operational war for territorial dominance in these geopolitical crucial regions of the African Continent.
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