Probe MediaA documentary maker manages the extraordinary during China’s pandemic: a film about the protests that brought lockdowns to an end. By Probe International “Ürümqi Road” is a 77-minute documentary by Chinese film-maker Chen Pinlin, better known by his pseudonym Plato. Pinlin’s film marks an extraordinary moment in recent Chinese history when anti-government protests erupted in […]
By Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon | The Adams-Solomon Report President Vladimir Putin’s antipathy to Alexei Navalny, a critic who died earlier this month while serving a 19-year prison sentence, is understandable. Navalny led demonstrations designed to prevent Putin’s reelection in the 2017 presidential elections, and he did it with U.S. government backing. As reported […]
By Probe Media February 7, 2024: At least 123 Chinese websites posing as local news outlets in more than 30 countries are targeting global audiences with pro-Beijing content to promote CCP objectives, discredit critics of the regime and spread disinformation with an anti-U.S. flavour, finds a new report by Citizen Lab, a cybersecurity watchdog and […]
By Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon | Published by The Epoch Times In the 1930s, the world had three powers that aspired to dominate the world: the communists of the Soviet Union under Stalin, who sought a worldwide proletariat revolution that redistributed wealth to the masses; the Nazis of Germany under Hitler, who sought to […]
By Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon | Published by The Epoch Times Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2017 ignored multiple warnings and committed Canada to membership in Xi Jinping’s pet project—an infrastructure bank that finances Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative and furthers China’s bid to become an imperial power. The bank, known as the Asian […]
By Fan Xiao Originally posted October 18, 2022 on the WeChat account “HeShanWuYan” (Rivers and Mountains in Silence; 河山无言). Translated by Probe International A transboundary super dam proposed for occupied Tibet, near its border with India, poses significant concerns and risks. A report by Chinese geologist Fan Xiao delves into the infeasibility of the massive development, […]
As the age of “climate hysteria” enters a new era of energy realism, the UN COP28 climate summit is expected to shift in tone from previous years, according to a panel of climate and energy experts in a preview of what to expect from this year’s gathering in Dubai. Organized by climate policy watchdog Net Zero […]
By Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon | Published by The Epoch Times While Israel may retain control for the foreseeable future, Israel wants no part of Gaza. Its government left Gaza in 2005, taking with it every Jew residing in Gaza and even every Jew buried there. And Israel isn’t alone. Egypt also wants no […]
By Lawrence Solomon | Published by Jewish News Syndicate If Iran’s goal in unleashing Hamas on Israel was scuttling the looming Saudi-Israeli peace deal, as is widely believed, it may have succeeded too well, raising the specter of an immediate backlash so severe as to threaten its grander, long-term plans for regional dominance and Israel’s […]
During China’s Great Famine, a group of university students managed to publish Spark, a journal documenting the grave plight of their people that spoke directly to the country’s authoritarian politics. Spark did not make it to a second issue. That a single issue found life at all is the subject of a modern-day journalist’s mission to […]