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The governments of the United States and China both assert that theirs is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. They also agree that the likeliest trigger for an armed conflict between them is Taiwan. In theory, then, it should come as a relief that U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping discussed Taiwan at length in Beijing last month and that the leaders emerged with a better understanding of each other’s positions. Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has paid millions of dollars for a covert, digital surveillance operation targeting Christians across multiple U.S. states, writes Alan MacCleod. Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs headquarters. (Almog. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain) By Alan MacLeodMintPress News If you are a Christian living in the Western United States, you have almost certainly been targeted with pro-Israel, anti-Palestine propaganda, paid for directly by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. Your searches, location, and internet activity is being monitored by Israel, and your algorithms and search results across multiple platforms are being manipulated by the Israeli government in what its American…

The men who wrote the Fourth Amendment had watched a government treat a population as a thing to be catalogued. They had lived under writs of assistance — general warrants that let a customs officer search any house, any ship, any person, on no suspicion at all. So they wrote a sentence meant to settle the matter for good: the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrant shall issue but upon probable cause. It was a line no administration could cross,…

A demonstration in Iran against the Shah, 1978 at College Bridge, Tehran. Wikimedia Commons. GFDL When trying to figure out what’s going on in the Middle East in general and the war in Iran in particular, I have relied quite a lot upon the works of Mouin Rabbani and Trita Parsi, both of whom have done an exemplary job of explaining ongoing events to wide audiences. I’d encourage anyone who wants to improve their understanding of what’s happening to check out these scholars’ interviews and essays. There are also excellent books one ought to read on the subject, not least of which…

On her final day as director of national intelligence Friday, Tulsi Gabbard released damning declassified evidence accusing Dr. Anthony Fauci of causing the COVID-19 pandemic. Source link

Nassau County’s Religious Safety Act “makes it unlawful for any person to,” “from one hour before to one hour after ‘any religious service, community meeting, ceremony, or other congregational, educational or organizational meeting or event,'” demonstrate, picket, protest, distribute literature, display signs, engage in oral advocacy, or other forms of expressive or symbolic conduct, whether conducted individually or in groups, within thirty-five (35) feet of the Entrance Area or Driveway of a Place of Religious Worship. As Judge Sanket Bulsara (E.D.N.Y.) noted Thursday in Borecky v. County of Nassau, this covers (among other things) “wearing a t-shirt that contains a…

‘The Federalist’ editor in chief Mollie Hemingway, Friday with FNC’s John Roberts, comments on the Democratic Party embracing what has been called “Democratic Socialism.”ZOHRAN MAMDANI: That old way of thinking will lose on Tuesday. And frankly, it will lose in South Carolina and New Hampshire. It will fall short of 270 electoral votes.JOHN ROBERTS: These candidates on the far left, they’re not just in it to get elected. They’re in it to boot out the establishment.MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: What Mamdani is talking about there is a very real thing that the Democratic Party went through, really when they decided in 2008…

Like his progressive comrades, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has an ambitious big-government agenda he proposes to fund by forcing “rich” people to pay their “fair share.” While the word billionaires is often thrown around, smart people understand that wealth will have to be defined generously to pay for everything proposed, and that “fair share” always means more. Even so, lots of Americans are on board with the idea of forcing people they consider rich to pay higher taxes. What they don’t understand, and what progressives won’t acknowledge, is that the U.S. already puts a heavier burden on high-income…

This week was the first meeting under new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh of the Federal Reserve Board’s Open Market Committee (FOMC). Warsh has promised to restructure the Fed, but it is still not clear he means by this. Donald Trump very explicitly picked Warsh because he expected that he would lower interest rates. That goes against Warsh’s past history of being an inflation hawk. In his earlier tenure as a Fed governor during the Great Recession, Warsh was arguing against expansionary monetary policy even when the unemployment rate was close to 10%. And he was concerned about hyperinflation when the…

The Rise of the Democratic Socialists Source link