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A Conversation With a Palestinian Lawyer

A Conversation With a Palestinian Lawyer

Dr Sheree Trotter Israel Institute of New Zealand israelinstitute.nz The Israel Institute of New Zealand is an independent think tank dedicated to providing New Zealanders with a better understanding of the State of Israel through accurate analysis, insightful commentary, and effective advocacy. In 2018, we had the opportunity to

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The Real Challenge Is Calling China’s Bluff

The Real Challenge Is Calling China’s Bluff

It has to be said that The Economist is a reliable guide to decision-making, in the same way as Bart Simpson. Every pundit, policy-maker and opinionist ought to carry a printed card that reminds them, “Whatever The Economist says, do the opposite”. After all, this is the magazine that touted

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Israel Took a Walk on the Dark Side during the Pandemic

Gilad Haran Shahar Gavish brownstone.org Shahar Gavish is the director of The Israeli Public Emergency Council For The Covid19 Crisis Gilad Haran is a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He served as the Dean of Chemistry in the Institute.

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Taliban’s Tactics to Oppress Women Haven’t Changed

Taliban’s Tactics to Oppress Women Haven’t Changed

Brian McQuinn University of Regina Cody Buntain University of Maryland Laura Courchesne University of Oxford Dr. Brian McQuinn is an Assistant Professor at the University of Regina and co-author of the report, “Powered by Twitter? The Taliban’s Takeover of Afghanistan.” Cody Buntain studies social media and how people engage

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Sweden’s Covid Strategy Worked for Most

Sweden’s Covid Strategy Worked for Most

Emma Frans Karolinska Institutet Emma Frans has a PhD in epidemiology, is a researcher at Karolinska Institutet and previously at the University of Oxford. As a science communicator, she has received the Swedish grand prize for journalism and Public educator of the year, and she is often heard and seen

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You Will Eat Grasshoppers and Be Happy

You Will Eat Grasshoppers and Be Happy

Warning Satire Klouse (the K is silent) Swab sat at his desk in his WEF (Wicked Eugenicist Fascists) office and quietly sang to himself to the tune of “Oh Dem Golden Slippers”* as he peered at his morning emails on the computer screen in front of him: “Oh dem crunchy

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The Dangers of ‘Green’ Environmental Planning

Zilvinas Silenas fee.org Zilvinas Silenas became President of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in May 2019. He served from 2011-2019 as the President of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI), bringing the organization and its free-market policy reform message to the forefront of Lithuanian public discourse. On July

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Silence the Skeptics: LinkedIn Favours Green Schemes

kevin-mooney cfact.org Be careful about circulating scientific data that debunks the assumptions standing behind costly climate change policies. Otherwise, technology companies reserve the right to muzzle those dissenting views. That appears to be message LinkedIn has been sending to scientists and researchers who question the premise of regulations aimed

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Bug off: Let People Enjoy Their Food

Jon Sanders aier.org Jon Sanders is an economist and the director of the Center for Food, Power and Life at the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he also serves as research editor. The center focuses on protecting and expanding freedom in the vital areas of agriculture,

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Who’s Most Responsible for the Ukraine War?

Edward W. Fuller mises.org Edward Fuller, MBA, is a graduate of the Leavey School of Business. John Mearsheimer recently gave an important lecture on the Ukrainian war. He warns that “the United States is now effectively at war with Russia”. Mearsheimer argues, “The United States is principally responsible.” Alexander

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Pregnant Males are a Scientific Fact

Thornton Blackmore One can only hope that future generations will look upon these times and ponder at the absurdities of the Western Cultural Revolution. Indeed, unlike the comparatively mundane class struggles of previous centuries, today’s Marxism seeks to dismantle not only class or even gender, but is attempting now

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What China Doesn’t Want You to Know about Taiwan

John Ling wealthmorning.com John is the Chief Investment Officer at Wealth Morning. His responsibilities include trading, client service, and compliance. He is an experienced investor and portfolio manager, trading both on his own account and assisting with high net-worth clients. ‘History is written by the victors.’ We’ve all

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Watch: Uninformed Consent

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Information Opinion Uninformed Consent is a recent feature film documentary produced out of Canada exploring the impact of Covid-19 vaccine mandates. Threaded throughout is the story of a grieving husband who lost his wife due to an employer-imposed vaccine mandate, which

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The West Was the Best You Ever Had, Ladies

The West Was the Best You Ever Had, Ladies

As Mark Steyn noted, many years ago, observing the incongruity of a hijab-clad Muslim woman passing a gay stall in a Western city, “in 30 years’ time, either the Arab lady will still be there, or the condom store, but not both. Which would you bet on?” It’s barely

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He Wasn’t Supposed to Be There

He Wasn’t Supposed to Be There

As John Kerry might say, he, uh, wasn’t supposed to be doing that. That was, if you’ll recall, Kerry’s famously perplexed response to news that a jihadi whom he’d not long freed from Gitmo had gone right on back to his jihadin’ ways. I mean, what

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This Is What You Get for China’s Money

This Is What You Get for China’s Money

The ink has barely dried and the pockets barely greased on China’s gibsmedat deal with the Solomon Islands and Beijing’s malign influence is already being felt. Around the world, the Xi regime has been using debt-trap diplomacy and the folly of greedy tinpot panjandrums to buy influence and

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