Commentary Johnny Depp’s victory is an important day for men around the world, especially those who are victims of domestic abuse. Contrary to popular belief, men can be victims, too. In “Platform,” a highly-provocative novel published 20 years ago, the author Michel Houellebecq put forward a rather provocative theory. As women become more accomplished, entering…
Beware of Hidden Messages From War Games
Commentary An NBC Meet the Press special on May 14 presented a war game conducted by the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a Washington-based think tank. On the surface, the game appeared to “educate” its audience. However, looking deeper into the messages delivered, “education” was not its purpose. These are the “conclusions” as quoted…
Operation Mockingbird Gets a Big Tech Makeover
Commentary In the late 1940s, as geopolitical tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union began to heat up, the CIA launched Operation Mockingbird, a large-scale program that used news media for one purpose only: to disseminate as much propaganda as possible. According to award-winning author Deborah Davis, Operation Mockingbird “owned” highly respected journalists…
The UN Fails Again on Human Rights in China
Commentary The United Nations’ visit to China’s Xinjiang region elicited outrage among human rights advocates and Western government officials. Yes, U.N. Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet should long have been more forceful in her denunciations of Beijing for its genocide against the Uyghurs. Yes, she should have refused a visit to the region unless she…
US Special Envoy Travels to Europe to Promote LGBTQI+ Rights
Commentary Actions matter far more than words in determining the Biden administration’s priorities. The administration is dealing with significant hotspots and thorny issues around the world: an ongoing war and refugee crisis in Eastern Europe resulting in 6.6 million Ukrainian refugees as of May 24; communist Chinese intimidation of Taiwan; Beijing’s gambit to control 10 Pacific…
An Unfriendly Facebook Legacy
Commentary Facebook may have begun as just a social networking platform, but over the course of Sheryl Sandberg’s tenure, it has become much more than that. As chief operating officer of Meta, Facebook’s parent company since 2008, Sandberg has played a huge role in the social network leader’s growth and the dominant global position that…
Pacific Islanders Say ‘No Thanks’ to Chinese ‘Friendship’
Commentary In late May, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a virtual summit with the leaders of several Pacific Island republics to entice them into joining a Beijing-led mutual security and economic agreement. It did not end well. During the summit, Beijing proposed that the Federated States of Micronesia, the Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Samoa, Fiji,…
Is Google Selling Your Private Data to China?
Commentary To quote the legendary author Paulo Coelho, “everything in life has its price.” Yes, everything, including our private data. If in doubt, let me point you in the direction of Google, a problematic multinational company. A new report published by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) demonstrates the dangers of Google. Specifically, it…
Never Forget the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre
Commentary As I watched the military parades at the start of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations on June 2, I was full of admiration for the men and women in uniform who not only marched and played music with remarkable precision and discipline, but whose very purpose is to defend us as a country…
A War Over Taiwan Raises the Threat of Combined China-Russia Nuclear Operations
June 3, 2022
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Commentary It is all good that Sweden and Finland want to end their neutrality and join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and that President Joe Biden is apparently ready to commit U.S. military forces to the defense of democratic Taiwan. But as Biden failed to deter Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he is not committing to…
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