Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Tag: Hong Kong

For US corporate media, not intervening in Chinese politics is journalistically...

The issue, according to U.S. media, isn’t that a government body intended to fund these demonstrations in the first place; it’s that Pack prevented it from doing so.

200 artists work in shifts for liberty in the Hong Kong...

The art functions to inspire, unify and empower, and often uses humor to offer light relief to the exhausted, sometimes shaken, but fiercely resolute students.

Sanctimonious US senators condemn Hong Kong police ignoring far more brutal...

“I salute the Hong Kong students for their passion and courage in demanding democratic rights and freedoms in their city.”

Student protesters are walking a tightrope in Hong Kong

The whole world is watching Hong Kong.

We are not fooled by the Hong Kong protests

If the US is successful, it will not be good for the people of Hong Kong, Asia or the world.

Two colonies doomed to 2nd-class status and remote central government control

Two photos speak volumes about the striking similarity between Hong Kong and Puerto Rico, one an island and peninsular former colony of...

Sri Lankan refugee family that hid Snowden in Hong Kong now...

For those who aid U.S.’ "outlaws," no good deed goes unpunished.

Oil tanker fire near Hong Kong kills 1, potential spill could...

The explosions were strong enough to be felt by residents of the nearby island.

Former Hong Kong leader sentenced to prison

“Never in my judicial career have I seen a man fallen from so high,” stated Judge Andrew Chan Hing-wai during the sentencing.

Hong Kong Announces Plan to Ban the Ivory Trade

Hong Kong announced on Wednesday that it plans to ban the domestic ivory trade.

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House Republicans advance massive budget bill with Medicaid cuts and tax breaks after secret...

GOP lawmakers pushed a sweeping bill forward in a rare Sunday vote after cutting a backroom deal with far-right Republicans to fast-track deeper Medicaid cuts and slash food aid—while offering permanent tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.

Knowledge is not just power but what drives unrivaled U.S. prosperity – slashed on...

Fantasy magic thinking is a very expensive folly when human lives are at stake.

Global hunger crisis deepens as world leaders slash aid amid record malnutrition and displacement

A record 295 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2024, as war, climate extremes, and economic shocks collided. With aid funding in freefall, UN officials warn the crisis is no longer just systemic—it is a failure of humanity.

America the unfree

Detention practices in a Trumpy post-9/11 age.

Trump-Musk Social Security fraud hunt yields chaos, not criminals

An internal document reveals that the Trump administration’s crackdown on supposed fraud in Social Security phone claims has identified just two questionable cases out of more than 110,000—prompting bipartisan outrage and warnings of a politically motivated attack on the program.