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U.S. Military Battles Russian Disinformation Campaigns
August 18, 2020
The U.S. Military faces a new type of battlefield on Social Media, with major Russian disinformation efforts causing potential difficulties between allies and trust within the United States.
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Atlantic Council: Ukraine Must Address Russia's Ongoing Aggression
August 15, 2020
According to the Atlantic Council, to address ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, Ukrainian leaders should shift from "warfare" to "lawfare," unambiguously documenting the manner in which Russia has violated international law.
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Bloomberg: Opinion: China Desires to Export its Surveillance State into the Democratic World
August 15, 2020
Johns Hopkins University Professor Hal Brands finds that America is the latest country to recognize that the People’s Republic of China has been building a high-tech surveillance state at home that may now have a global impact as the Chinese Communist Party attempts to stretch it's influence internationally through business and politics.
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Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Media Owner Arrested Under New Security Law
August 12, 2020
In the wake of Hong Kong's new security law, government authorities arrested Jimmy Lai, the founder of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, along with his two sons and four colleagues, and raided the paper’s headquarters on the grounds that the group was engaging in fraud and colluding with foreign governments to undermine national security.
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U.S. Senator Seeks to Limit Use of Controversial 1619 Curriculum in Public Schools
August 10, 2020
U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) has introduced legislation to prohibit the use of federal funds to teach the New York Times 1619 project curriculum, expressing concern that the series of essays, podcasts, and other media argues that America's founding and development is rooted in the 1619 appearance of African slaves in the British settlement at Jamestown, not in the natural law and republican democratic principles of 1776.
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