Section: The Daily Signal (USA)
How Natural Gas Exports Are Giving America a Key Edge
According to a new report published by the International Energy Agency, the United States could become the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas as soon as 2024. Growing U.S. liquefied natural gas trade builds the domestic industrial sector and supports our national security interests abroad by providing America’s allies...
After Defeat of ISIS, Iraq’s Christians and Yazidis Adjust to Uneasy Peace
ST. MATTHEW’S MONASTERY, Iraq—Some 20 miles from Mosul in northern Iraq’s Nineveh Plains, this Christian monastery has stood high on the slopes of Mount Alfaf since the year 363. Once home to about 7,000 monks in the ninth century, it’s among the oldest Christian monasteries in the world. Over the centuries, St. Matthew’s...
How the Trump Administration Advances Global Religious Freedom
For Americans, religious liberty is in our DNA. The pursuit of that freedom is what brought the Pilgrims to our shores nearly 400 years ago. Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, believed so strongly in religious liberty that he authored Virginia’s Statute for Religious Freedom, and when it became law, he called for...
Ukraine Takes Another Step Toward Freedom From Russia
KYIV—Ukrainians Sunday took another step in their long struggle to free themselves from the shadow of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, holding elections that were orderly, free, and fair. In a country in the midst of a shooting war with soldiers sent by the Kremlin, the exercise in democracy was a peaceful way to assert independence and remind...
The ‘Spirit of Apollo’ Inspires a New Generation of Ukrainian Spaceflight Pioneers
DNIPRO, Ukraine—Viktor Listov was a 10th grade student in St. Petersburg (then known as Leningrad), Russia, when Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, completing one orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961, aboard his Vostok 1 spacecraft. Listov vividly remembers the day. His teacher interrupted the day’s lesson and told...
Once Again, The New York Times Has Glowing Coverage of a Communist Regime
Editor’s note: In its coverage of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon, The New York Times published a series of pieces critical of the U.S. space program, including an article titled “How the Soviets Won the Space Race for Equality.” Promoting that article, the Times tweeted, “America may have put the first man on the...
Mr. President, It’s Time to Meet With Ukraine’s New Leader
There is an old saying that I made up: “Nobody wants to be a suburb of Moscow.” That’s the sum of decades of experience witnessing how the Soviet Union abused captive nations, now only to watch history repeat itself through Russian President Vladimir Putin’s destabilizing foreign policy. Put Ukraine at the top of the list of free...
Diplomat: Poland Doesn’t View Trump as Cozy With Putin
From the perspective of a country counting itself as the “best barometer” of concern about Russia’s aggression, President Donald Trump is anything but soft on the government of Vladimir Putin, a top Polish official in the U.S. says. Trump pledged last month to put 2,000 more U.S. troops in Poland, at a time when that nation is wary not only...
Iran Is Using Russian ‘Gray Zone’ Tactics, in Echoes of Ukraine War
KYIV, Ukraine—The recent military tension between the U.S. and Iran underscores a new era of conflict, some military officials and analysts say, in which a country’s power on the world stage is no longer measured solely by economic clout, military force, or even diplomatic sway. Rather, the audacious use of misinformation to shape public...
Barr Is Right: The Trump-Russia Conspiracy Is ‘Bogus’
In a recent interview with The New York Times, Attorney General William Barr reiterated his intention to find out why the Obama administration launched an investigation into the Republican Party presidential candidate’s campaign during the 2016 campaign. If the political parties in the sentence above were reversed, we would be in the midst...
