Western nations should prepare their peoples for a long-term drop in living standards if their standoff with Russia continues, the Britain’s former Assistant Chief of Defence Staff, Jonathan Shaw, has said. “We in the West have the wrong mentality” about the conflict in Ukraine, he said. Once one of the …
Read More »After Kyiv Post closure, will the West continue to give Ukraine’s Zelensky a free pass for his clampdown on media freedom?
The outlet’s owner, real-estate tycoon Adnan Kivan, who runs the KADORR business group, did not stand on ceremony, simply informing the newsroom staff one morning that their jobs and their paper were over. Even if Kivan added a few token words of thanks for their services and made vague promises of, …
Read More »Google, Facebook & Microsoft top EU lobbying spending amid clampdown on Big Tech’s powers by Brussels – study
The paper, published by Corporate Europe Observatory and LobbyControl campaign groups on Tuesday, revealed that the annual spending on lobbying on EU digital economy policies has reached a whopping €100 million ($114.4 million). More than 600 companies have been involved in such activities, with at least 20% of them being …
Read More »Visa clampdown shows Trump’s aim is for Americans to consider EVERYONE from China as ‘the enemy’
Before the Donald Trump administration, there were extensive ties between the American and Chinese people. Over 300,000 Chinese a year were studying in US universities, many Chinese aspired to top technology jobs in America, while millions more visited as tourists annually. Those days now seem very distant indeed. Yesterday, the …
Read More »Macron’s clampdown on radical Islam is backed by most French, but should’ve been done in more conciliatory way – Austria’s ex-FM
Following the beheading of schoolteacher, Samuel Paty, by a radicalized Chechen refugee earlier this month, Macron vowed to defended French values and take a firm stand against Islamist extremism, announcing the closure of several mosques on accusations of promoting fringe ideology. “The president had many, many people behind him when …
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