Sen. Mike Lee Outlines Objections to Law of the Sea Treaty
Ratification of the 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) would jeopardize American security, rule of law, and prosperity, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said yesterday at Heritage. The junior...
View ArticleEdward Snowden and His Friends
Edward Snowden, the self-glamorizing leaker of National Security Agency secret programs, is still holed up in an airport in Moscow, where he’s been stuck for two weeks. The United States has warned...
View ArticleHatch: U.S. Should Protect Sovereignty, Not Promote a U.N. Treaty
Senator Orrin Hatch (R–UT) delivered a broadside on the Senate floor last week to proponents of U.S. ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), a United Nations...
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Tweeting for Their Country: Diplomats and World Leaders Warm to Twitter
Newscom Twitter is coming of age. Today, the social website will be offering its shares to the public, following in the somewhat faltering footsteps of its competitor Facebook. But this is not the only...
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Internet Freedom in Decline
Newscom The recently published Freedom on the Net 2013 report by Freedom House shows a negative movement worldwide, even in the countries listed as “free.” This has been a persistent trend for the...
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American Leadership Needed as Global Freedom Declines
Newscom Freedom House has just released its 41st annual survey of freedom in the world. It shows an overall erosion in global freedom for the eighth year in a row. Just 40 percent of the world’s...
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Africa: U.S. Leadership Needed to Promote Democracy
Newscom Freedom House’s annual Freedom in the World 2014 found that sub-Saharan Africa declined in all seven categories of global political rights and civil liberties. Most telling was that, of the 10...
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Ukraine: Despite Calm on the Surface, the Political Crisis Boils on Below
AFP PHOTO / SERGEI SUPINSK YSERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images Last Saturday morning, a Ukrainian television journalist, Oleh Kryshtopa, awoke to find that his car had been set on fire overnight....
View ArticleTurkey: Erdogan Government’s War on Media
Hundreds of brave journalists in Turkey took to the streets of Istanbul this week to protest new laws tightening censorship of the Internet. In early February, Azerbaijani journalist Mahir Zeynalov was...
View ArticleU.S. Press Freedom 2014: Much Is in the Eye of the Beholder
The headline from “World Press Freedom 2014,” published by Reporters Without Borders (RWB), was grave: The United States has plummeted in its rankings of 180 countries. From a not-so-great number 32 in...
View ArticleIndonesia: Elections an Opportunity for Improved Governance
Upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections in Indonesia are heating up after the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle’s (PDI-P) announcement that Jakarta’s popular governor, Joko Widodo...
View ArticleCensorship Disguised as Cybersecurity: Cambodia’s Proposed Cyber Law
A recently leaked bill before Cambodia’s parliament would be the first to explicitly outlaw cyber crime in the country, but it would also serve as a means for the Cambodian government to repress...
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