Category: NEWS

Good Cop Bad Cop Strategy Does Not Sway Chinese

In Beijing, French President Macron and European Commission President von der Leyen tried in vain to sway Beijing into siding with the collective West over Ukraine.

Creating the Circular Economy: The Devil Is the Details

The detailed product design requirements of the ESPR are intended to serve as a lever to bend the entire value chain into a circle, though who or what will yield is still being worked out through negotiations in the EU Parliament and the Council.

Drought in Norway Newest Energy Threat

Drought in Norway Newest Energy Threat

This year’s drought has brought water reservoir levels so low that the government is considering having to temporarily stop hydroelectricity exports.

August 14, 2022
Jordan Peterson Receives Spengler Prize; Call for Papers

Jordan Peterson Receives Spengler Prize; Call for Papers

Spengler Society, Peterson “fights for holding on to the very own basic values of our civilization,” which makes his work “increasingly compatible and complementary to that of Spengler.”

August 14, 2022
RyanAir to Raise Prices, Blames Airports for Delays

RyanAir to Raise Prices, Blames Airports for Delays

O’Leary blamed the summer’s travel problems on a lack of planning by airport officials, saying they knew schedules months in advance.

August 14, 2022
Novelist Salman Rushdie in Hospital After Attack on Stage

Novelist Salman Rushdie in Hospital After Attack on Stage

In an email, his book agent Andrew Wylie wrote that “the news is not good,” as the author is likely to lose one eye. During the attack, stab wounds damaged his liver and severed the nerves in his arm.

August 13, 2022
Greek Government Facing Phone-Tapping Scandal

Greek Government Facing Phone-Tapping Scandal

In his speech to the nation, PM Mitsotakis attempted damage control by calling the phone-tapping legal, but wrong.

August 13, 2022
High-Profile Protesters Arrested in Sri Lanka

High-Profile Protesters Arrested in Sri Lanka

The arrest of trade union leader Joseph Stalin led to large scale protests in Sri Lanka. UN special rapporteur on human rights, Mary Lawler, called the arrest “disturbing” and said Stalin “must be supported, not punished.”

August 13, 2022
ECJ Ruling Will Facilitate Work of Mass Migration NGOs

ECJ Ruling Will Facilitate Work of Mass Migration NGOs

Inevitably, the high court’s ruling will have a disproportionately negative impact on the EU’s Mediterranean countries—the states most vulnerable to illegal mass migration: Italy, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, and Malta.

August 12, 2022
Gustavo Petro Sworn in as President of Colombia

Gustavo Petro Sworn in as President of Colombia

Petro’s campaign highlighted environmentalism, feminism, and Afro-Colombian issues. Where he and Chile’s Boric break with Chavez-style leftism is in emphasizing gay marriage, abortion, and “green” industry.

August 12, 2022
Russian-Crimean Airbase Destruction is Confirmed

Russian-Crimean Airbase Destruction is Confirmed

Ukraine has coyly neither accepted nor denied responsibility for the explosions that startled tourists at the beach.

August 12, 2022
Tavistock Gender Clinic to be Sued by 1,000 Families

Tavistock Gender Clinic to be Sued by 1,000 Families

Lawsuits are being prepared by aggrieved families who allege that the Tavistock clinic indulged the ill-considered claims of vulnerable children and sent them down a damaging, irreversible medical route.

August 12, 2022
Hungary and Slovakia Step Up to Keep Russian Oil Flowing Through Ukraine

Hungary and Slovakia Step Up to Keep Russian Oil Flowing Through Ukraine

Oil deliveries from Russia had been detained through the southern half of the Druzhba pipeline due to a problem with transit fee payments caused by EU sanctions.

August 12, 2022
Election Forecast: Italy’s Counter-Globalist Right Coalition May Win 60% of Seats

Election Forecast: Italy’s Counter-Globalist Right Coalition May Win 60% of Seats

If the forecast is correct, the conservative, anti-establishment coalition could secure 245 out of 400 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 127 of 200 seats in the Senate, garnering a comfortable majority in both legislatures.

August 12, 2022