How the Coronavirus Pandemic Will Permanently Expand Government Powers
May 20, 2020In Foreign Policy, several experts provide their views about how the COVID-19 pandemic will permanently expand government powers.
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Newsweek: Intelligence Reports Reveal China Malfeasance Relating to COVID-19 Pandemic
May 20, 2020
A Newsweek exclusive report reveals that Intelligence reports indicate that, as China hoarded medical supplies, it tried to stop the WHO from sounding alarm on the COVID-19 pandemic.
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How the Coronavirus Pandemic Will Permanently Expand Government Powers
May 20, 2020
In Foreign Policy, several experts provide their views about how the COVID-19 pandemic will permanently expand government powers.
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China Appointed to Influential UN Human Rights Council Panel
May 20, 2020
China, which has a known history of abusing human rights, has been appointed a seat on the Consultative Group of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which is the panel that oversees candidate recommendations for UN human rights experts.
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Barrons: McDonald’s Target of Sexual-Harassment Complaints by Labor Unions to OECD
May 20, 2020
On the eve of McDonald’s annual meeting, an international group of labor unions filed a complaint with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that details alleged failures by the fast-food giant’s global management to address “rampant” sexual harassment at restaurants in the U.S. and other countries.
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France Online Speech Regulation Follows Growing Trend
May 20, 2020
Georgetown University Professor Mark MacCarthy describes the new French laws pertaining to the regulation of harmful online speech, such as involving terrorism and child pornography, but urges regulators tread carefully in regulating "hate" speech, which is given broader protection by U.S. First Amendment law.
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Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Will be Challenged by EU Regulations
May 20, 2020
German regulators have rejected the €9.5 billion Russia Nord Stream 2 pipeline project request for a 10-year pass from new European Union gas rules on unbundling, network access, and cost regulation.
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High EU Court Condemns Hungary’s Migrant Transit Zone
May 20, 2020
On May 14, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that Hungary's confinement of third-party asylum seekers subject to a "return decision" in transit zones at the Serbian-Hungarian border "must be classified as detention."
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New President of European Court of Human Rights Will be Tested
May 20, 2020
As Judge Robert Spano (Iceland) assumes the Presidency of the European Court of Human Rights, he faces backlogged applications and critics who call the ECtHR "activist," thought Spano has a history of supporting subsidiarity and measured respect for national sovereignty.
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EU Commission Struggles with German Court Decision
May 13, 2020
EU Commission officials are struggling with what steps to take relating to the decision of the Constitutional Court of Germany that challenges the authority of the European Court of Justice to exclusively interpret the monetary policy of the European Central Bank, including the option of infringement proceedings.
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FBI Breakthrough in Pensacola Shooting Attack Discovers Saudi Military Trainee Connected to Al-Qaeda
May 20, 2020
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced a major breakthrough in the ongoing investigation into the 2019 lethal shooting attack by a Saudi military trainee at the US Naval Air Station in Pensacola, FL, revealing that the Saudi perpetrator had systematically planned the attack in collaboration with a contact in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
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Anti-Regime Jihadist Groups in Syria Use Extortion to Generate Profits
May 20, 2020
The two main anti-Syrian regime jihadist groups now competing in northern Syria are using extortion and criminality, including “taxes” on local shopkeepers’ trade, “customs fees” on highway transport, and kidnapping ransoms, to generate multi-million dollar profits to “liberate” Syria.
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ADL Report Points to 2019 Jump in Arrests for Domestic Islamist Extremist Activity in US
May 20, 2020
A newly released report by international non-governmental organization Anti-Defamation League details a 50 percent increase in 2019 arrests for Islamist extremist activity inside the US.
