Another Human Rights Group Scams the West
Earlier today, a Finnish court found Gibril Massaquoi not guilty on all counts after a more than one-year trial. On March 10, 2020, Finnish police arrested Massaquoi, who had located to Finland...
View ArticleRussia’s Forced-Deportations of Ukrainian Orphans Highlights Its Imperial Agenda
As an adoptee from Russia, I’m pained to see Vladimir Putin is exploiting Ukrainian orphans and making them pawns in an imperialistic campaign to “Russify” Ukraine. Since February 2022, Russian...
View ArticleEnding US Support to the Saudi-led Coalition Will Not End the War in Yemen
In May, Congress introduced a war powers resolution that aims to end the war in Yemen by blocking US support to the Saudi-led coalition. This resolution, which Sen. Bernie Sanders may bring to a vote...
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The Rights and Responsibilities of AI, Seen Through the Autonomy-Automaton Lens
As artificial intelligence (AI) technology continues to advance, one question seems to recur: do machines enjoy legal rights and responsibilities? If so, how closely do those rights and...
View ArticleWTH Is Going on with the Genocide Olympics? NBA Star Enes Kanter Freedom on...
As the Olympics continue in Communist China alongside Beijing’s continued genocide against the Uighurs, all too few have been willing to call out the tyrants and abusers. Democratic freedoms are under...
View Article‘They Don’t Respect Human Rights. They Hide the Truth.’
Below is a lightly edited transcript of an interview with Enes Kanter Freedom, NBA player, human rights activist, and all-around American hero. Born in Switzerland of Turkish origin, Freedom has been...
View ArticleEnes Freedom Was Cut for Exposing How US Corporations Became Foreign Agents...
Enes Kanter Freedom sensed the end was coming. “I have 25 games left in my contract, and it’s up after this season,” the 10-year National Basketball Association veteran told me last week. But...
View ArticleA Moral Disaster: War Crimes in Ukraine (with Maria Tomak)
Maria Tomak, Head of National Office of the Crimea Platform, created under President Zelensky’s administration, joins Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia from Lviv to discuss Putin’s possible war crimes in...
View ArticleWTH Should We Do About Putin’s Rape, Murder and Genocide? Former Assistant...
Outrage over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine intensified this weekend as horrific reports of Russian war crimes emerged and shocked the world. In what Ukrainian President...
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Will Our Actions Ever Match Our Words on Human Rights?
The ubiquitous Ukrainian flags, concerts for Ukraine, statehouses, opera houses and monuments alit in yellow and blue, ribbons, emojis, a spot on the Grammys for Volodymyr Zelensky; and the...
View ArticleAmnesty International’s Orwellian Turn
In 1961, Amnesty International formed to defend non-violent “prisoners of conscience,” a term co-founder Eric Baker coined. Over subsequent decades, the group was crucial to shaming dictatorships and...
View ArticleVatican Silent as Brazen China Targets Cardinal
For a long time, he watched from the relative safety of (then British-ruled) Hong Kong. But now Hong Kong is no longer safe for human rights supporters, not even if they belong to the very highest...
View ArticleUS Must Change Perception That Genocide Works
It’s clear that President Joe Biden aspired to be a foreign policy president. “Diplomacy is back” became his mantra upon winning the election. While the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan may have...
View ArticleDiscussing the Protests in China: Chestnut Greitens at 360/StratCom
Visiting Fellow Sheena Chestnut Greitens discusses the protests in China at the Atlantic Council’s 360/StratCom. The post Discussing the Protests in China: Chestnut Greitens at 360/StratCom appeared...
View ArticleIs Joe Biden the Worst Thing for Human Rights Since Henry Kissinger?
Last week’s U.S.-African Leaders Summit was the culmination of months of hard work by diplomats at the State Department and National Security Council. It all went out the window with a single...
View ArticleDiscussing Trends in Post-Protest Iran: Rubin Speaks at the US Army Command...
Senior Fellow Michael Rubin discusses trends in post-protest Iran at the US Army Command and General Staff College. The post Discussing Trends in Post-Protest Iran: Rubin Speaks at the US Army Command...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Tackle Human Rights Fraud
On May 12, 2014, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested former Liberian Defense Minister Jucontee Thomas Woewiyu as he arrived at Newark International Airport on immigration fraud and...
View ArticleSafeguarding the People of Nagorno-Karabakh
Chairman Smith, Chairman McGovern, honorable members, thank you for the opportunity to testify today concerning ways in which the United States might help safeguard the people of Nagorno-Karabakh....
View ArticleThe Three Whisky Happy Hour: Ricochet Overtime Edition
As loyal listeners know, yesterday Steve, John, and Lucretia took over the flagship Ricochet podcast in the absence of both Peter Robinson (still somewhere in the Witness Protection Program) and Rob...
View ArticleDiscussing US deal with Iran to free hostages: Soleimany on KSL News Radio
Sahar Soleimany discusses the US deal with Iran to free hostages on KSL News Radio. The post Discussing US deal with Iran to free hostages: Soleimany on KSL News Radio appeared first on American...
View ArticleHow Is Congress Involved in Foreign Policy? (with Jordan Tama)
The topic of this episode is, “How is Congress involved in foreign policy?” My guest is Jordan Tama, a Provost Associate Professor at American University’s School of International Service. He is the...
View ArticleLessons for an Unserious Superpower: Scoop Jackson on National Security and...
In this third essay in a series on the legacy of Senator Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson, Nicholas Eberstadt lays out the basic tenets of Senator Jackson’s worldview and considers how he might view the...
View ArticleLessons for an Unserious Superpower: Scoop Jackson on National Security and...
In this essay from a series on the legacy of Senator Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson, Nicholas Eberstadt offers suggestions about what a Scoop Jacksonian approach in U.S. foreign policy might look today,...
View ArticleAre Human Embryos Human Beings?
Among the constants in human history is this: When people want to justify killing, enslaving, or otherwise abusing a class of their fellow human beings, they first dehumanize them. I suspect that the...
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