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The French National Assembly passed a bill on Thursday banning discrimination over the texture, length, color or style of a person’s hair on first reading. The bill will now go to the Senate for further approval. The proposed bill aims to amend the wording of existing anti-discrimination measures adopted in the labor code, penal code and [...]

“The man who laughs has simply not yet heard the horrible news.”          Berthold Brecht An Existential Task Until the end of his presidency –  and even after his open complicity in subverting the United States Constitution on January 6, 2021 – Donald J. Trump held effectively unchecked nuclear command authority. Now, after multiple criminal [...]

Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being light years ahead of your time. If you are right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority, the truth [...]

In response to the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks against Israeli civilians, Israel mounted Operation Swords of Iron. Although international law allows for certain limited uses of insurgent force, including uses directed toward “self-determination,” these residual allowances do not include any rights of indiscriminate violence or of deliberate attacks on noncombatants. “Revenge,” of course, is [...]

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that the nation’s upcoming referendum on the Voice to Parliament will take place on October 14, 2023. Australia’s constitution can be amended only by way of referendum, invoked by section 128 of the Australian Constitution. Significantly, a referendum requires that the proposed constitutional change is approved by a [...]

“Each state is expected, perpetually, to aid and enforce the law of nations, as part of the common law, by inflicting an adequate punishment upon the offenses against that universal law.” William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Law of England (Book 4) After January 6, 2021, it was disclosed by the special investigating committee of the [...]

French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposed pension reform survived opposition attempts to block the repeal bill following the National Assembly’s vote on Thursday. The controversial reform, which seeks to replace the current 42 pension schemes with a single, universal points-based system, has sparked widespread protests and strikes across the country. Opponents of the reform failed in [...]

Last week, the national union representing waste and sanitation workers in France gave notice of an encore round of strikes set to start the day before the next step of the unpopular retirement reform’s legislative process: this Friday, April 14, the Conseil constitutionnel is expected to either validate or suppress all or some of the bill that had [...]

The French Senate Saturday voted in favour of President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform. The reform bill, which will raise the legal age of retirement to 64, was passed by the French Parliament’s upper house with 195 votes for the reform and 112 against. Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne announced, “After a hundred hours of debate, the [...]

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the nomination of Ontario Superior Court of Justice Judge Michelle O’Bonsawin, to the nation’s highest court on Friday. O’Bonsawin, an Abenaki member of the Odanak First Nation, will be the first indigenous justice at the Supreme Court. This nomination would fill the vacancy to be created by the upcoming [...]