By Sasha Gong, American Greatness The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize went to Navi Pillay, the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Sixteen years earlier, Liu Xiaobo received the same prize from a Chinese prison for demanding democracy. Pillay, then the world’s top UN human rights official, declined to attend the Oslo ceremony. An empty […]
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By Sasha Gong, published by American Greatness AI keeps advancing whether America pauses or not. While open societies cycle through apocalyptic fears that stall infrastructure and frontier work, China treats AI, energy, and rule-making as instruments of power and will keep going, argues journalist Sasha Gong. Democratic caution, she says, is a strength only if […]
By Lawrence Solomon, published by Washington Examiner Britain’s settlement sanctions were never going to stay in London. Days after Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced an import ban on goods from Israeli communities in the West Bank and penalties for those who help them expand, 11 other governments said they would follow. Norway is now moving a bill that would […]
Must citizens repay loans taken in their name that never served them? Kenya’s High Court is about to test a century-old doctrine lenders hoped was dead. By Patricia Adams for the Mero Tribune In Brief by Probe Media Kenya is putting an old legal idea to the test. The country’s High Court has greenlit a petition […]
Governments, including those that denounce the Jewish state, rely on its air-defense technology when their own skies are at stake. By Lawrence Solomon, published by Jewish News Syndicate Go to the publisher’s website here to read the original version of this commentary. Greece signed a 3-billion-euro ($3.5 billion) air-defense deal with Israel on Monday. On Sunday, […]
Loans made outside normal parliamentary channels and held offshore may soon find themselves less likely to be repaid. By Patricia Adams, Special to Financial Post In Brief A Nairobi courtroom is testing whether billions in sovereign debt can simply be declared illegitimate—and if citizens should ever have to repay loans they never approved and never […]
By Probe International Police swooped on Hong Kong’s “Have A Nice Stay” bookstore on July 15, handcuffing staff and hauling away boxes of books suspected of “seditious intention.” The shop, founded in 2022 by former journalists, specialized in titles on media literacy, democratic development, and authoritarianism, while serving as a rare gathering spot for civil society in […]
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The IRGC’s October surprise
By Lawrence Solomon, published by Jewish News Syndicate Go to the publisher’s website here to read the original version of this commentary. Pro-Israel supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Iran—most prominently, Victor Davis Hanson—dismiss the president’s apparent appeasement of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and distancing from Israel by pointing to […]
By Lawrence Solomon, published by Jewish News Syndicate Go to the publisher’s website here to read the original version of this commentary. El Al’s last commercial flight from Tehran departed 47 years ago, on Feb. 10, 1979, as the Islamic Revolution engulfed Iran. Its last flights from democratic Toronto and Brussels left in October 2022—barely three and a […]
It’s time to fundamentally rethink America’s approach to the Chinese Communist Party: Sam Brownback. By Probe International In an interview with Jan Jekielek for American Thought Leaders, Sam Brownback, the former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, lays it on the line: the Chinese Communist Party’s war on faith is part of its zero-sum civilizational contest […]