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BBC: Biden Expands on Trump's U.S. Investment Ban on Chinese Firms
June 07, 2021
US President Joe Biden is set to expand an order previously issued from former President Donald Trump, banning Americans from investing in dozens of Chinese tech and defense firms with alleged military ties.
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NYPost: State Department Staffers Were Warned Against Probing COVID Origin
June 04, 2021
Former acting assistant secretary of the State Department’s Bureau of Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance, Thomas DiNanno, revealed that State Department staffers were warned against investigating the origin of COVID-19 because it would cause problems, opening up the possibility of a « cover-up ».
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Protests as Syria given a Seat on Executive Board of the WHO
June 02, 2021
Medical workers in rebel-held northwest Syria are protesting the decision to grant Syria a seat on the executive board of the World Health Organization (WHO), after hundreds of medical facilities have been bombed, often in government airstrikes and with half the hospitals and health centers are functioning only partially or not at all.
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Tonkin: Australia is Becoming a Surveillance State
June 02, 2021
Casey Tonkin writing in ACS Information Age argues that Australia is increasingly giving power to law enforcement, citing the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2020, which, if passed, will give extra power to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC), allowing agencies to obtain warrants to modify and delete data, collect intelligence from online communities, and take over the online accounts of supposed criminals.
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NY Post: IAEA Missing Key Iranian Nuclear Data
June 01, 2021
The NY Post reports that a confidential Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) memo was discovered by the Associated Press and found that the agency not has access to key data about Iran’s nuclear program for the last three months after Tehran began restricting international inspections of its nuclear facilities.
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