A senior figure in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) was placed in pretrial detention. Cleric Metropolitan Pavlo is facing charges for voicing opinions deemed too pro-Russian. A Kiev court ordered Pavlo to jail on Saturday. The cleric’s bail was nearly $900,000,...
Ukraine has ratcheted up its campaign against a branch of the Eastern Orthodox church with ties to Russia. On the order of President Volodymyr Zelensky, seven senior clerics from the Russian Orthodox church will have their assets seized and face bans on a range of economic and legal activities.
Russia claims the US provoked the Kremlin with a request to inspect Moscow's nuclear weapons under the New Start treaty. The Kremlin recently announced it was suspending American inspections because Western sanctions were preventing Russians from implementing checks...
Commentators have said that people are being racist for worrying about Coronavirus and especially when they avoid Chinese people. We should never treat people poorly or be a jerk, but when you have a serious infectious disease problem with a lot of unknowns, the use...
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rules against Trump's travel ban. [Link] Senate Democrats will join with Rand Paul in opposing a weapons sale to Saudi Arabia. The vote on the weapons sale could occur this week. [Link] Alexei Navalny and over 1000 other protesters...
With the uproar over President Trump's new travel ban and the GOP plan to repeal-and-replace Obamacare, scant attention is being paid to the opening President Donald Trump seems to have created for immigration reform. The Washington Post, no fan of the president, has...
The reason for President Trump’s reissued executive order is to “protect the Nation from terrorist activities by foreign nationals admitted to the United States.” A further justification buried in the executive order is that “[s]ince 2001, hundreds of persons born...
The debate over President Trump’s travel ban and the debate over gun control look surprisingly similar – except for who’s on which side. In each case, supporters of the policy argue that it’s necessary in order to prevent incidents of lethal violence, while opponents...
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...
FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...
