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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Ian Williams |John Connolly |Joshua Trevino |Joseph Humire
In the fight against climate change, China loves to present itself as the world’s White Knight. Armed with wind turbines and solar panels, EVs and batteries, it will rescue us from oblivion if only we would let it. There’s no shortage of western politicians, academics and organizations who are happy to go along with the idea that China is an ally in the global green revolution.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Yascha Mounk |Grace Curley |Joshua Trevino |Joseph Humire
Over the last weeks, the words and actions of the Trump administration have caused the biggest rift between the United States and Europe since the end of the Cold War. Relations between the longstanding partners are more strained now than they were in the run-up to George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq or in the aftermath of Trump’s 2018 joint press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
heritage.org | Joseph Humire
Shocking videos surfaced in late August of gun-wielding Venezuelan migrants storming an apartment building in the suburban city of Aurora, Colorado.REF One of the migrants, a 20-year-old, confessed that he is part of a Venezuelan gang called Tren de Aragua (TdA, or “Train from Aragua”).REF The Aurora police department is now beefing up its budget to confront the increased crime spilling over from the sanctuary city next door in Denver.REFAurora was just the beginning.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
townhall.com | Joseph Humire
President Donald Trump unveiled “Operation Aurora” last month during remarks made in the city of the same name in Colorado. The proposed federal program would seek to remove members of a dangerous transnational Venezuelan mega-gang, called the Tren de Aragua (TdA), from urban and suburban communities throughout America.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
heritage.org | Joseph Humire
When a Colombian-born American judge presided over the corrupt criminal trial of a U.S. president for the first time in history, many Americans couldn’t believe this was happening in their country. Rogue prosecutor Alvin Bragg’s case against President Donald Trump was nothing short of unjust political persecution and blatant lawfare. For Latin Americans, it was, unfortunately, more of the same.
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May 22, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Roger Kimball |Ian Birrell |Joseph Humire
As much as Prince Harry claims to hate the media, he never manages to stay out of the spotlight for long. Now it transpires that the renegade royal has been reprimanded by a UK High Court judge for trying to bag “trophy targets” — and has been told that he cannot take phone-hacking allegations against Rupert Murdoch to trial.
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May 21, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Roger Kimball |Ian Birrell |Joseph Humire
Do you like scary stories? How about this recent report from the United States Treasury, “Advancing Equity through Tax Reform: Effects of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2025 Revenue Proposals on Racial Wealth Inequality.” That sleep-inducing mouthful of grade-A bureaucratese may seem anodyne, the sort of thing that requires a surgeon general’s warning. But even a cursory trip through this twelve pages of reader-proof gobbledegook will be enough to give any sentient being nightmares.
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May 21, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Ian Birrell |Joseph Humire |Andrew Tettenborn
Enver Simsek’s life story was one familiar to many migrants. He moved from Turkey to a small town in Germany, then worked hard in a factory during the week and as a cleaner at weekends before starting his own business as a florist. By the turn of this century, he employed almost a dozen people selling his blooms from stalls and stands across Bavaria. So in the summer of 2000, he took his wife and two teenage children back to his native land for a break.
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May 21, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Joseph Humire |Billi Bierling |Ben Domenech |Fraser Nelson
Earlier this month, two American supersonic fighter jets flew over Georgetown, the capital city of Guyana. The US show of force is not only for the attention of Venezuela’s socialist regime who has been escalating toward a military conflict with its smaller neighbor since at least September 2023 when Nicolás Maduro returned from Beijing.
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May 21, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Joseph Humire
Earlier this month, two American supersonic fighter jets flew over Georgetown, the capital city of Guyana. The US show of force is not only for the attention of Venezuela’s socialist regime who has been escalating toward a military conflict with its smaller neighbor since at least September 2023 when Nicolás Maduro returned from Beijing.
