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Sara Harmouch PhD Candidate, School of Public Affairs American University A drone attack that killed three American troops and wounded at least 34 more at a base in Jordan has increased fears of a widening conflict in the Middle East – and the possibility that the U.S. may be further
Once upon a time, aspirants to political office or public service positions were subject to “pink-listing”, if it was suspected that there was a hint of lavender in the air. It was reasoned that the shame of being publicly exposed as homosexual left people in critical positions at unique risk
Barbara Kay Barbara Kay lives in Montreal. She is a columnist for the National Post, the Epoch Times and the WesternStandardOnline.com. mercatornet.com “Canadians deserve to know the truth,” Federal Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre told reporters earlier this week, regarding 2021 claims made — but never investigated — of unmarked graves
Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at FEE. fee.org In February 2022, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he was invoking the 1988 Emergencies Act, a new Rubicon in Canadian history. The action marked the first time federal emergency powers had been activated
Jack Vowles Professor of Political Science Victoria University of Wellington The coalition government’s approach to Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Treaty of Waitangi) will inevitably set the scene for Waitangi Day next week, with the ACT Party’s Treaty Principles Bill already generating protest and ill will. But ACT’s
I know it, you know it, the polls are telling us the majority of the rest of the voters know it. Know what, I hear you ask. The left doesn’t deserve our respect. The numbers in both the Roy Morgan and the Curia polls show they have indeed lost
Caleb Anderson First published on NZCPR Mr Peters’ recent frustration with the media is understandable. After a series of inane questions from the usual left-wing attack dogs he simply instructed them to “stop asking stupid questions” and then walked away. And indeed their questions were stupid. Amidst what might be
James Shaw’s greatest legacy is not the Carbon Zero Act; it’s the failed 2018 Census which showed his true character My abiding memory of James Shaw will be his eagerness to talk about what his legacy will be, whenever he got the chance. That in itself is a
Watch the video above, as Nicole McKee destroys the emotive and rubbish rationale that drove Labour to push their anti-gun agenda and their and the Police’s insistence that we’d all be safer with a gun register. 1. CAMERON LUXTON (ACT) to the Associate Minister of Justice (Firearms): What
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Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org Javier Milei went to Davos to attend the 54th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting last week. Attendees of the meetings—often derided as global elites who bask in their
Vote in haste, repent at leisure. It’s impossible to say if any in the crowd at the Australian Open who jeered and booed Anthony Albanese actually voted for his government, but 32% of Australians did. The rest of us have to live with the consequences of their foolishness. A
Adam Simpson University of South Australia Nicholas Farrelly University of Tasmania Three years since a military coup ousted Myanmar’s democratically elected government on February 1, 2021, a brutal civil war has left the country devastated. In December, a United Nations report on Myanmar’s humanitarian needs said the country
Steven Tucker Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer with over ten books to his name. His latest, Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science, comparing the woke pseudoscience of today to the totalitarian pseudoscience of the past, was released in 2023. mercatornet.com Is Argentina’s new economically and
The anti-Semitic corruption of the UNRWA — its Palestinian “aid” body — has been known for years. But the latest revelation, that its members actively participated in the horrors of October 7, ought to be the final nail in its coffin. And, indeed, its parent body, the UN itself. If nothing else,
