At 3:26 a.m. on September 1, 1983, a Soviet Su-15 fighter fired a missile into the side of a civilian Boeing 747. Korean Air Lines Flight 007 had strayed into Soviet airspace over Sakhalin Island, carrying 269 people – including… Read More
My grandmother was born in Chernivtsi in 1935, when it was still part of Romania. She never chose to become Soviet. That decision was made for her in a Moscow office, on a piece of paper neither she nor anyone in… Read More
A democratic socialist in Oklahoma? Apparently so. In this week’s Democratic Party primary, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist beat her mainstream rival. The candidate pledged her affinity for socialism, telling an interviewer: “Most countries that have socialism, they are thriving.” Socialists of all types assert that… Read More
August 23rd marks both the 37th anniversary of the Baltic Way, a human chain of approximately 2 million Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians in protest of the Soviet Occupation and Black Ribbon Day, a day of commemoration for victims of Nazi… Read More
Writing in Foreign Policy, VOC Senior Fellow in China studies, Dr. Adrian Zenz, and researcher Muetter Tohti explore how Beijing is pioneering new tools of transnational repression. Transnational repression has moved from the margins of human rights reporting to the… Read More
So-called democratic socialists such as Mamdani ally Darializa Avila Chevalier have called for the “total eradication of Western civilization.” This should not surprise us. For decades, America’s education system—from K-12 through universities—has drifted from teaching about the American Dream to an outright assault on America’s free… Read More
The following is an op-ed written by Dr. Edwin J. Feulner and Ana Quintana. It originally ran in Real Clear World on February 21, 2017. Over the last two decades, the now-deceased Hugo Chavez and his handpicked successor, President Nicolas Maduro, have… Read More
The following is an op-ed written by Dr. Edwin J. Feulner. It originally ran in The Washington Times on November 06, 2017. President Franklin D. Roosevelt called Dec. 7, 1941 “a day that will live in infamy,” and with good reason. The… Read More
The following is an op-ed written by Dr. Edwin J. Feulner. It originally ran in The Washington Times on June 09, 2019. Even if you know nothing about the Tiananmen Square massacre, you’ve almost surely seen the famous photo of a… Read More
