The whole world is disillusioned with climate politics, except for the UK

This year’s annual global climate change Conference of the Parties, COP30, is set to be held from 10 to 21 November 2025, in Belém, Brazil. Ahead of COP30, by February 2025, countries were supposed to have submitted updated national climate

Tony Blair could be the head of a new government in Gaza

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is reportedly in talks to lead a US-backed, temporary transitional authority in the Gaza Strip, according to multiple news sources. The move came just days after the UK, Canada, Australia and Portugal ann

Babel serves as a cautionary tale for our times

The biblical story of Babel, where a group of migrants attempted to build a tower to reach the heavens, serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers of human pride and the consequences of excessive pride in human abilities. “With all its s

Conspiracy theorists, you were right: The climate change agenda is the depopulation agenda, even though no one knows what the global population is

On Tuesday, The Guardian published an article that admits the climate agenda is the depopulation agenda. What is also notable is the article boldly claims the global human population is increasing by 200,000 people a day.  The world’s popul

US/Africa: Expulsion Deals Flout Rights

(Johannesburg) – The United States’ recent expulsions of third-country nationals to Eswatini, Ghana, Rwanda, and South Sudan have exposed several hundred people to a risk of arbitrary detention, ill-treatment, and refoulement, Human Rights

Will there ever be a Palestinian State?

Do the Palestinians have a right to form a state? If a one-state solution were implemented, what would happen to the Palestinian population? Why is compromise impossible with Hamas and the Palestinian Authority? The Danube Institute asked Y

The New York Times publishes a scary but false narrative of a climate crisis in Europe

Last week, we published an article explaining how New York’s climate madness could lead to blackouts.  In a recent article, Anthony Watts demonstrates how corporate media from New York is helping to spread climate hysteria, in this case, re

Ethiopia: Surge in Arrests of Journalists, Media Workers

(Nairobi) – Ethiopian security forces have arbitrarily arrested several journalists and media professionals since August 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should end their harassment of independent journalists and immedia

Venezuela: Political Prisoners Cut Off from the World

(Washington, DC) – Dozens of political prisoners in Venezuela have been held incommunicado for weeks, months and some for over a year, Human Rights Watch and the Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners in Venezuela (Comité por la

Challenging Ukraine’s Mine Ban Treaty “Suspension”

The 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, which aims to “end .. the suffering” inflicted by antipersonnel landmines, has advanced international law and saved countless lives.[1] It is a cornerstone of humanitarian disarmament, a people-centered approach to

People may love freedom, but they don’t always love the responsibility that freedom demands

Liberty is not merely the absence of coercion but a learned skill and a habit of self-governance that requires active participation and responsibility.  This is the central idea of Alexis de Tocqueville’s psychology of freedom. Freedom, Toc

Professor Henrik Svensmark: The Earth’s climate is not in a crisis

“It’s a bad career move to go against the idea that CO₂ is the only driver of climate change,” Danish astrophysicist Professor Henrik Svensmark says.  But he’s doing it anyway. In an interview with Freedom Research, Prof. Svensmark argued t

Trump Urges Starmer: Use Military, Stop Illegal Immigration

President Trump visited the UK this week, during which he urged Britain to use every tool available to secure the Channel. Claiming he saw “millions of people” flow into the US before his term, he told reporters that mass, unchecked migrati

EU’s New India Strategy Overlooks Modi’s Repression

The European Union unveiled its “New Strategic EU-India Agenda” this week, setting out a range of areas for closer bilateral cooperation. The document hails India as the “world’s largest democracy” and a “like-minded and trusted partner,” b

El Salvador: Baseless Charges Against Rights Defenders

(Washington, DC) – Police in El Salvador arbitrarily arrested two human rights defenders who were peacefully protesting a mass eviction and have been holding them in pretrial detention since the end of May 2025, Human Rights Watch said toda