Hong Kong authorities recently arrested four students, ages 16 to 21, for announcing on social media that they were setting up an organisation that advocates Hong Kong independence, which, under Beijing's New Security Law, is considered a crime.
After an Education Department investigation that "uncovered over $6.5 billion of previously unreported foreign donations," ranking members in Congress requested answers from universities including Harvard and Yale about gifts from China, Russia, Qatar, Iran, and Saudi Arabian businesses and governments.
Oxford legal scholar Richard Ekins has expressed support for the creation of a group of UK barristers and academic lawyers, led by Lord Fauks QC, former minister of state for justice, to examine the practice of judicial review and claims of judicial overreach by the UK Supreme Court.
As Turkey's Islamist government converted the Hagia Sophia World Heritage Site into a mosque, the country's President is openly rejecting secularism as a sociopolitical mode and the government's base is hinting at a reinstatement of the caliphate.
U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) has introduced legislation to prohibit the use of federal funds to teach the New York Times 1619 project curriculum, expressing concern that the series of essays, podcasts, and other media argues that America's founding and development is rooted in the 1619 appearance of African slaves in the British settlement at Jamestown, not in the natural law and republican democratic principles of 1776.
During an interview with FoxNews commentator Mark Levin, U.S. Attorney General Bob Barr revealed that leftist groups, such as Antifa, are engaging in "urban guerrilla warfare" to advance a "secular religion" that will result in undermining the classical liberal values that have undergirded American democracy.
Hong Kong authorities recently arrested four students, ages 16 to 21, for announcing on social media that they were setting up an organisation that advocates Hong Kong independence, which, under Beijing's New Security Law, is considered a crime.
Writing in Politico, Kalev Leetaru comments how, reminiscent of Hollywood movie morality code censorship in the 1930’s and 40’s, evolving and ambiguous online speech policies are forcing politicians to self-censor or risk deletion by social media gatekeepers..
According to Fulbright Professor Christopher Balding, ignoring the manner in which the Chinese Communist Party suppresses critical inquiry and free thinking, American universities are engaging in the lucrative practice of enrolling an increasing number of non-resident tuition-paying Chinese Nationals.
Writing in Forbes, Tilak Doshi argues that environmental activists pushing for reductions in carbon emissions from internal combustible engines ignore the tremendous pollution and human rights abuses arising from the mining of minerals used in the production of lithium-ion rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles, especially in Africa, China, and Latin America.
According to Politico, European Commission officials have confirmed that, subject to some limitations, British citizens who moved to the EU before the end of 2020 will be able to settle in a different country within the bloc, a development which expands the right to movement granted to UK citizens under the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.
Oxford legal scholar Richard Ekins has expressed support for the creation of a group of UK barristers and academic lawyers, led by Lord Fauks QC, former minister of state for justice, to examine the practice of judicial review and claims of judicial overreach by the UK Supreme Court.
Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine have announced the creation of the Lublin Triangle, a new platform for increasing cooperation in security, economic, and political matters, which is designed to strengthen their mutual national relations and with the European Union and NATO.
The Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP), the Afghan franchise of IS, staged a major prison breakout for ISKP and Taliban extremists in the country’s eastern province bordering Pakistan, an indication of the resilient, active, and diverse ecosystem of jihadist groups cooperating in the Afghanistan-Pakistan space of South Asia.
The Islamic State’s (IS) genocide committed against the Yazidi religious minority of northern Iraq’s Sinjar region has left the ancient community’s survival in peril, as the small number of survivors continue to live in refugee camps, families are fragmented by IS’ murder of male heads of households, women formerly enslaved by IS fighters struggle with trauma, and the children of rape of Yazidi women by IS captors confront rejection from the Yazidi community.
As Turkey's Islamist government converted the Hagia Sophia World Heritage Site into a mosque, the country's President is openly rejecting secularism as a sociopolitical mode and the government's base is hinting at a reinstatement of the caliphate.
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