No, Joe Biden is not “ending the war” in Afghanistan. The “big news” in the last couple of days is the American “drawdown” in Afghanistan.
Human Rights Watch Responds: Reflections on Apartheid and Persecution in International Law We appreciate the rich discussion triggered by this week’s EJIL Talk! symposium, which has addressed a number of legal issues arising from our report “A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution.” The report has received significant media attention and sparked many useful conversations since
South Sudan at a Crossroads What are some of the biggest challenges South Sudan has today? South Sudanese voted to secede from Sudan in January 2011 and became an independent state on July 9 that year.
UN Rights Body Needs to Act on Ethiopia As reports of grave rights abuses continue to emerge from the Tigray region of Ethiopia, the United Nations Human Rights Council is considering a resolution to add Tigray to its agenda.
Spontaneous Spiritual Awakenings: Phenomenology, Altered States, Individual Differences, and Wellbeing Spontaneous Spiritual Awakenings (SSAs) are subjective experiences characterised by a sudden sense of direct contact, union or complete nondual merging (experience of oneness) with a perceived ultimate reality, the universe, ‘God’, or the divine. These profound transformative experiences have scarcely been researched, despite extensive anecdotal evidence suggesting their potential to
6 Annoying Conversational Habits That Push People Away Communication is important, this is true.However, annoying conversational habits can be worse than no communication at all.Don’t irritate people.
Philippines Loses a Press Freedom Fighter The Philippines lost one of its foremost press freedom fighters Wednesday night.
Brazil’s Amazon Governors: Deliver Results to Secure Support (São Paulo) – The governors of Brazilian Amazon states should take immediate measures to deliver on their pledges to curb illegal deforestation, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
PATHETIC: The Covid Cult Have Started a Petition Calling For Face Masks to Remain Mandatory The Covid cult have started a pathetic petition to keep face coverings mandatory in shops and supermarkets after July 19th. The petition titled “Keep legal requirement to wear face coverings in shops and supermarkets after July 19th”, which was started on Change.org by Martynh Cordey, currently has over 140,
NSA reading private communications from journalists who disagree with Democratic agenda Tucket Carlson is being notified by a whistleblower that he is being targeted by the NSA
Are the Government, its advisors and legacy media trying to become the voices in our heads? What on earth is our Government up to? Are they trying to turn us into a nation of psychotics? By Rhoda Wilson Over the past year we have seen the largest campaign of fear the world has ever seen. In May, The Telegraph reported how the use of fear to
Health Workers Abandoned in Yemen’s Covid-19 Fight Health workers in Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen have recently reported that they face significant barriers to obtaining vaccines, and existing vaccines may expire before they are used.
Kazakhstan: Crackdown on Government Critics (Berlin) – Authorities in Kazakhstan have targeted at least 135 people across the country with criminal investigations and prosecutions for alleged participation in banned “extremist” political opposition groups, Human Rights Watch said today. Over the last three years, the authorities have increased their misuse of vague and overbroad criminal charges relating
Susan Michie and the Covid Cult – a movement steeped in ideology rather than science Journalism is dead…On Monday July 5th, we all saw why.For 16 months the government & its scientific advisors have avoided any kind of scrutiny.