Danish health officials warned the campaign could resume next autumn, however Denmark has declared an end to its Covid-19 vaccination drive for now, becoming the first country to formally halt inoculations as officials point to increasingly strong immunity among residents. The Danish Health Authority announced the decision earlier this week, saying that due to vaccinations […]
Service members talk of a “shadow policy” that lets Pentagon get rid of unruly troops The US government is still mandating all members of the military to get a Covid-19 vaccine and discharging those who refuse – even on religious grounds – in what amounts to a deliberate purge of troops with beliefs the current […]
Ivy League school vows to earmark $100mn to make amends for ties to slavery An internal committee commissioned by Harvard University has published an exhaustive inquiry into the prestigious school’s history and ties to slavery and the study of eugenics, university president Lawrence Bacow announced on Tuesday, adding that the school was setting aside $100 […]
The incident has been described by some members of the Israeli Knesset as an ‘extrajudicial killing’ and has provoked a large Palestinian response throughout the occupied territories. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett triumphantly announced that “The Yamam [Israeli special forces], Shin Bet [Israeli intelligence], IDF – our forces proved today, once again, that there is […]
It was always going happen – no major political party in a functioning liberal democracy can support a destructive opportunist like Donald Trump indefinitely, especially after he has lost office. But when the outbreak of open warfare between Trump and those influential Republicans who oppose him commenced late last week, it still came as a […]
One evening last April I was sitting on my sofa in my luxury self-contained apartment watching my TV. I’d just eaten a nice big dinner and was feeling full and relaxed. Then the news announced that the US forces in Afghanistan were going to pull out no later than September that year. Since my luxury […]
Joe Biden’s current crop of senior policy aides, led by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, have helped create one of the most significant foreign policy crises in modern history. It’s time for a new slate of advisers. Despite having served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for decades, US […]
The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernandez, recently attended the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Beijing. The next day, he met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in the Great Hall of the People, where he signed Argentina up to the Belt and Road Initiative, while also penning an $8 billion nuclear power plant deal […]