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 […]
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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 […]
Trump, like past presidents, balks at putting boots on the ground. By Lawrence Solomon, published by Visegrad24 For the original version of this commentary, see the publisher’s website here. The Iranian regime has good reason to string out peace negotiations with the United States. Despite U.S. rhetoric of “peace through strength” and bluster that time […]
While western elites wring their hands, the Jewish state is quietly forging alliances through hard power, shared threats and raw mutual self-interest. By Lawrence Solomon, published by the National Post For the original version of this commentary, see the publisher’s website here. While much of the western media continues to paint Israel as a pariah […]
Why Canada has become a prime target for Beijing’s sophisticated influence operations. By Lisa Peryman for Probe International “What is the United Front? It’s basically a way in which the party tries to control and mobilize the people that are outside of it. So, it’s fundamental to domestic governance. It’s fundamental to trying to mobilize […]