By Leo Babauta
Creating a new habit like meditation, journaling or exercise isn’t incredibly complicated — at the most basic level, you tie the habit to a trigger that’s already in your life, start small, and find ways to encourage yourself to remember it…

Nikolay Peskov, the eldest son of Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, has shared details of his service with the Wagner Group

China’s ambassador to France says sovereignty of Ukraine and other former Soviet republics isn’t clearly defined in international law

Embassy tells US citizens in Sudan to shelter in place as fighting in Khartoum rages on

Democratic congresswoman Stacey Plaskett called for Matt Taibbi’s arrest based on an apparently bogus accusation by a fellow journalist

Commentary
Saddam Hussein’s statue was pulled down on April 9, 2003. I doubt many civilians old enough to remember it could say where they were when they first saw those images. But for those in the military at the time, even 20 years later, I bet that you…

Commentary
Defending the security and integrity of the Canadian state from external and internal threats is a key federal responsibility. But it seems the federal government has its priorities backwards.
Ottawa unleashed the Emergencies Act on the fictional…

Human Right NGO: HSBC and other banks work with HKGov to steal Hongkongers' life savings






On April 17, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau, Christopher Hui Ching-yu, attended the Innovate Finance Global Summit (IFGS) 2023 in London…

The sentencing of a family member of two Florida residents because of their faith has revealed the “true nature” of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.).
“No one should be jailed for exercising their faith. This is the…

News Analysis
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recently claimed that China’s economic growth is stable, citing a double-digit spike in exports to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in March. Some financial institutions revealed that official…

It has been more than five years and Geng He still doesn’t know whether her husband in China is still alive.
Her husband, Gao Zhisheng, a renowned human rights lawyer, went missing from his home in northern China’s Shaanxi Province in August 2017. At that…

It’s increasingly the received wisdom in Washington: China’s military power and manufacturing capacity are twin challenges America must face.
Economist David Goldman wants to address the two together through vigorous industrial policy driven by smart defense…

Vietnam has accused China of violating its sovereignty as Beijing imposed a unilateral annual fishing ban on the South China Sea. It has again brought to international attention the long disputed waters by eight governments.
Since 1999, the Chinese communist…

“Global health governance is not fit for purpose, and it doesn’t represent a vast majority of global needs and wants and desires, and people on the ground and what’s going to affect them. It gets captured.”
Today I sit down with Garrett Brown, professor…

In March of this year, former Beijing party boss Cai Qi was given an additional position—director of the party’s General Office, which magnified his power to discipline all Chinese Communist Party (CCP), regime, and military officials except those in the…

Ontario MPP Vincent Ke is using social media to solicit funding for his defamation lawsuit against Global News, after the media outlet’s reporting alleged him to be part of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) election interference scheme.
In an April 13 news…