During the video broadcast of the annual duty report by Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, Chinese President Xi Jinping has announced that Hong Kong “must always be governed by patriots”. He asserted that “patriotic” politicians were the precondition to the implementation of Chinese Central Government’s comprehensive jurisdiction over Hong …

Americans have every right to be in a fit over the news that 500,000 Americans have died from the COVID-19 infection.  Hard to imagine worse news.  What is missing from this news is that way over 300,000 of these deaths could have been prevented through the widespread use of cheap, …

West Papua was handed to Indonesia in 1963 by the United Nations from the Dutch in 1963. Exposing them to marginalization, poverty and inequality, land appropriation at the hands of the Indonesian government. Which utilized a hierarchical framework to exploit, and marginalize, creating inequality of health care and standards of …

Given that the SARS-CoV-2 variants can evidently evade immunity produced by vaccines or previous infections, scientists are exploring the idea of redesigning the vaccines currently being rolled out worldwide. While researchers are still debating whether the new variants have an effect on the first generation Covid-19 vaccines, some vaccine developers …

Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-frivolous-first-amendment-defense-wont-shield-him-in-a-criminal-case/ At his impeachment trial for inciting insurrection, Donald Trump’s lawyers claimed that Trump’s exhortations to his followers before the attack on the Capitol were protected free speech under the First Amendment. But as 143 other constitutional law scholars from across the political spectrum and I collectively noted, that …