By Willow Tohi, February 3, 2025 As President Donald Trump’s choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr., prepares for his confirmation process, a surprising and concerning effort is emerging from some of the most influential conservative circles. This effort, spearheaded by Federalist Society Co-chair Leonard Leo, is […]
By Zack Colman, Marcia Brown, January 31, 2025 Agriculture Department employees have been ordered to delete landing pages discussing climate change across agency websites and document climate change references for further review, according to an internal email obtained by POLITICO. The directive from USDA’s office of communications, whose authenticity was validated by three people, could […]
By Didi Rankovic, January 28, 2025 One of the panels during last week’s World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting – “Empowering People with Digital Public Infrastructure” – saw the participation of Avathon CEO Pervinder Johar, who provided a vision of a gloomy future of “optimized” and omnipresent surveillance. Johar, of course, would not put it […]
First published in 2008 by George Kent, republished on the UN.org website. We sometimes talk about hunger in the world as if it were a scourge that all of us want to see abolished, viewing it as comparable with the plague or aids. But that naïve view prevents us from coming to grips with what […]
By Niki Raapana Communitarians believe that all neighborhoods should be governed like Chinese collectives. They teach that mandatory volunteerism in the community is a moral obligation of all citizens, and that intervening and reporting on your neighbors is required to maintain their individual freedom. It may sound like two conflicting ideologies, but it’s not. Communitarianism […]
By Ken Macon, Reclaim the Net, January 27, 2025 Russia is preparing to launch a comprehensive facial recognition payment system by 2025, aiming to create one of the largest biometric payment networks in the world. This initiative will build upon the existing Face Pay platform, which has been gradually implemented since 2021, and is a […]
By Emma Pirnay, January 24, 2025 Matteo Salvini, Italy’s deputy prime minister, has proposed a bill to withdraw Italy from the World Health Organization (WHO), following Donald Trump’s executive order on Monday. “I presented this morning at the Chamber of Deputies, the League’s bill to leave the WHO (World Health Organization), as did the United […]
By Patrick Wingrove, Jennifer Rigby and Emma Farge, Reuters, January 22, 2025 NEW YORK/LONDON/GENEVA, Jan 21 (Reuters) – The United States will leave the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises. Trump said the WHO had failed to […]
Kremlin.ru – January 17, 2025 The Russian Federation and the Islamic Republic of Iran, hereinafter referred to as the Contracting Parties, expressing interest in taking friendly interstate relations to a new level and giving them a comprehensive, long-term and strategic nature, as well as in strengthening their legal foundations, convinced that the development of a […]