Commentary According to a recent Gallup opinion poll, President Joe Biden’s approval rating has sunk to a new low of 50 percent. What can Biden do to win back people’s support? Well, how about listening to what the American people have to say? As The Epoch Times recently reported, a large number “of Americans across…
Feds Extend Business, Worker Aid to End of October
OTTAWA—The federal government is tapping the brakes on its plans to phase out pandemic aid programs this summer, deciding instead to freeze benefits at current levels and extend help by an extra month beyond the previously planned end date. The decision means that wage and rent subsidies for businesses, and income support for workers out…
Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘The Horse Soldiers’: Director John Ford’s Entertaining Civil War Drama
Not Rated | 2h | Adventure, Romance, War | 1959 For as many Western films as celebrated director John Ford made, it’s interesting that he produced only one wholly dedicated to the Civil War. (He did touch on the Civil War in 1962’s “How the West Was Won.”) “The Horse Soldiers” (1959) was his only…
Russia Opens Case Against WhatsApp for Violating Personal Data Law
MOSCOW—Russia on Friday launched administrative proceedings against Facebook’s WhatsApp for what it said was a failure to localize data of Russian users on Russian territory, the Interfax news agency reported. There was no immediate comment from Facebook. A day earlier, a Russian court fined Alphabet Inc.’s Google 3 million roubles ($41,000)for violating personal data legislation…
Why Afghan Women Have Been Abandoned: The Power of Belief
Commentary A sentence in an editorial about Afghanistan in the French newspaper, Le Monde, made me sit up. Titled “The Cruel Abandonment of Afghan Women,” it said: “Their progress [that of the Taliban] since the United States completed its military withdrawal on July 3rd bewilders the experts.” Really? Is anyone truly surprised—bewildered, indeed—by the progress…
US Naively Supports China in Afghanistan
Commentary U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that China’s involvement in Afghanistan could be a good thing. His July 29 utterances fly in the face of all available evidence and are supremely naive, or worse. Instead of using his position to represent American values and provide real information to the global public, Blinken persists…
EU Says Sanctions an Option to Tackle Belarus People Smugglers
BRUSSELS—The European Union will consider sanctions against people smugglers and those involved in human trafficking to address a surge in “irregular” border crossings from Belarus, the bloc’s top diplomat on Friday said. Lithuania, an EU member state, has reported an uptick in illegal border crossings from neighboring Belarus and accused Minsk of flying in migrants…
Senate Votes to Start Debate on $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill
The Senate voted Friday to start debating a White House-backed infrastructure proposal after weeks of negotiations. On Friday, the upper congressional chamber voted 66-28 to officially begin the debate. Sixteen Republicans joined all Democrats to begin the debate, bypassing the 60 votes needed to overcome a potential filibuster. The measure, which some have described as…
After Filming Assault on Police, Hong Kong Reporter’s Travel Documents Held by Police
The Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) issued a statement on July 27, protesting the Hong Kong police searching the home of a reporter who had provided information about an assault, and seizing his computers, phones, and travel passes. At around 10 p.m. on July 1, a man by the name of Leung Kin-Fai stabbed a…
China Chasing Dissidents Among US Allies
Commentary This week the U.S. Department of Justice announced indictments against nine Chinese nationals for acting as illegal agents in the United States, roaming the country to intimidate and harass Chinese nationals living in the United States—including dissidents—with one clear aim: to force them to return to China “voluntarily.” One of the nine is even…
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