Tag: International

The Essential Guide to Heart Disease: Symptoms, Causes, Treatments, and Other Remedies

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. One person dies every 34 seconds, making cardiovascular disease responsible for 1 in every 5 deaths. What Are the Common Types of Heart Disease? “Heart disease” is a term used to describe…


Foreign Minister Still Concerned Over Australian Journalist’s Long-Term Detention in China

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong says she remains deeply concerned over the continuing detention of China-born Australian journalist Cheng Lei, who has been imprisoned for nearly three years. Cheng was arrested by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities in 2020 on charges of “illegally supplying state secrets overseas.” She had been working at the time of her…


What Is Above Our Laws?

Commentary When government enacts legislation that undermines even our most elementary rights, one might be inclined to inquiry whether, in order to be valid, positive laws may have to conform to certain objective standards of justice and morality. Some lawyers have traditionally answered this in the affirmative, arguing for objective standards which are accessible to…


World Should Face ‘Reality’ on Climate Change, Says Former Australian PM

BRISBANE—The world should face the reality that it may have got it wrong on climate change, says former Australian Prime Minister John Howard. Howard, who served as the Australian leader from 1996 to 2007, made the comments while appealing to the centre-right Liberal Party not to abandon its position on critical issues, warning that conservatives had…


Tom Cotton Says Ukraine War Will End in ‘Negotiated Peace’

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a prominent Republican and Senate Armed Services Committee member, said Thursday a Ukrainian victory in the ongoing war will ultimately come in the form of a “negotiated peace.” In January, Cotton penned a letter to President Biden urging him to provide more advanced weaponry to the Ukrainian military and empower the…


PREMIERING NOW: Natan Sharansky on Today’s ‘Evil Empires,’ the War in Ukraine, Soviet Communism, and the New Antisemitism

“When there is nothing to die for, there is nothing to live for … and that’s why I think that nationalism is a very good word when it goes together with freedom and human rights. The moment you separate them, you’re getting awful dictatorship or empty, shallow, decadent life.” I sit down with former Soviet…


Natan Sharansky on Today’s ‘Evil Empires,’ the War in Ukraine, Soviet Communism, and the New Antisemitism

“When there is nothing to die for, there is nothing to live for … and that’s why I think that nationalism is a very good word when it goes together with freedom and human rights. The moment you separate them, you’re getting awful dictatorship or empty, shallow, decadent life.” I sit down with former Soviet…


PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: Natan Sharansky on Today’s ‘Evil Empires,’ the War in Ukraine, Soviet Communism, and the New Antisemitism

“When there is nothing to die for, there is nothing to live for … and that’s why I think that nationalism is a very good word when it goes together with freedom and human rights. The moment you separate them, you’re getting awful dictatorship or empty, shallow, decadent life.” I sit down with former Soviet…


White House Warns Americans Not to Travel to Russia After Arrest of WSJ Reporter

The Biden administration has condemned the detention of a Wall Street Journal reporter by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). National Security Council Spokesperson John Kirby told reporters on March 30 that the targeting of American citizens by the Russian government is unacceptable and that the United States strongly condemns the detention of reporter Evan…


Actor Guy Pearce Apologises for Sparking Trans Debate Online, but Stands by Comments on Diversity

Actor Guy Pearce has spoken out against suggestions that actors should announce their sexual preference, political stance, or personal identity before getting work. On March 27, Pearce posed a question to his Twitter followers: “If trans actors are the only ones allowed to play trans roles then are we also suggesting trans actors are therefore…