bicom.org.uk What happened: Mansour Abbas, the leader of Islamic United Arab List (UAL / Ra’am) has reflected on his view of the Abraham Accords. * Abbas was speaking to the US-based Washington Institute where he admitted it was a mistake not to vote in favour of the agreements. * He
Sonia Elijah brownstone.org Sonia Elijah has a background in Economics. She’s a former BBC researcher and now works as an investigative journalist. “The convoy is organised by the people, for the people.” This morning, Efrat Fenigson, a prominent Israeli human rights activist and chief marketing officer, spoke with
Pinki Virani mercatornet.com Pinki Virani is a writer, journalist, and human rights activist. She is the author of five books. She was India’s first woman editor of an evening newspaper. Last month the Government of India promulgated two important laws which were many years in the making about
Simon Black sovereignman.com Information Satire Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain
February 11th, 2022. In the UK, things are slowly getting back to normal. I had the delight of a day in Belfast to attend a seminar on peacebuilding in a post-conflict society, but more of that later. It is a few years since I was last in Belfast and then
How wisely it is said that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Marx and Engels had good intentions when they wrote the Communist Manifesto and Capital. How’d that turn out? The appeasement and anti-war movements of the 1920s and 30s had good intentions, too. But all
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young
Julius Ruechel brownstone.org Julius Ruechel is an independent writer focused on providing perspective on topics essential to the healthy functioning of science and democracy. You can see more of his writing at JuliusRuechel.com The ongoing Truckers for Freedom convoy in Ottawa has triggered a shockwave that is reaching
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Laura Rosen Cohen brownstone.org Laura Rosen Cohen is a Toronto writer. Her work has been featured in The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, National Post, The Jerusalem Post, The Jerusalem Report, The Canadian Jewish News and Newsweek among others. She is a special needs parent and also a
The last time a protest arrived on Parliament grounds on December 16, 2020, the Red Queen and her courtiers had already fled. A bit like Justin Trudeau, her doppelgänger, who fled to an undisclosed location when 50,000 truckers and 100,000 demonstrators arrived recently in Ottawa. Tucker Carlson said
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As Australian comedian Celeste Barber found out the hard way, when people donate to a specific cause, the money has to go to that cause alone. Redirecting the funds elsewhere is called “fraud”. Which, as it happens, is a crime. Crowdfunding platform GoFundMe likes to make up its own rules
People fall prey to scams all the time. We all know someone dudded in some form of scam, whether it is Nigerian ‘419’ style scams, catfishing of sad and lonely older folks or Ponzi schemes. It is astonishing just how many people fall for these scams. What I am about
It’s a common mistake of both the admirers and detractors of totalitarianism to assume that it is inherently stronger than democracy. In the 1920s, especially, many apologists for fascism and Nazism argued that “democracy is too weak” to deal with the crisis of economic collapse. In recent times, even
3rd February 2022. February 1st was the anniversary of the coup in Myanmar. It was marked in Myanmar by silent protest and absences from work. I have not been sending updates from Myanmar because of concern for my sources there. I feel happier today because some have managed to leave
