Security Intelligence: Here is a summary of significant articles published on ForeignAffairs.co.nz on July 5, 2025.
MIL-OSI Analysis: Hope for a ceasefire in Gaza (but not much)
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor This article was first published in The Conversation UK’s World Affairs Briefing email newsletter. Sign up to receive weekly analysis of the latest developments in international relations, direct to your inbox. Each day that has passed recently has brought another […]
MIL-OSI: LNG Energy Group Informs Material Events
Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI) TORONTO, July 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — LNG Energy Group Corp. (TSXV: LNGE) (TSXV: LNGE.WT) (OTCQB: LNGNF) (FWB: E26) (the “Company” or “LNG Energy Group”) announces that the Failure-to-File Cease Trade Orders in Multiple Jurisdictions (FFTCO) continues and that the Company expects to file the Company’s annual audited financial statements for the […]
MIL-OSI Submissions: US Supreme Court ponders the balance of power – and sides with President Trump
Source: The Conversation – UK – By John Stanton, Reader in Law, City St George’s, University of London Since his second inauguration in January, Donald Trump has issued more than 160 executive orders. These orders permit the US president to make directives concerning the workings of the federal government without the need to pass laws […]
MIL-OSI Submissions: Low turnout and an unfair voting system: UK elections ranked in the bottom half of countries in Europe
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Toby James, Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of East Anglia The UK has historically been held up as leading democracy with free and fair elections. However, our new report shows election quality in the UK is now ranked in the bottom half of countries in Europe. […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: How the myth of ‘Blitz spirit’ defined and divided London after 7/7
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Darren Kelsey, Reader in Media and Collective Psychology, Newcastle University The “Blitz spirit” is one of Britain’s most enduring national myths – the stories we tell ourselves about who we were, and who we still believe we are today. Growing up among football fans, I heard constant nostalgic […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: How Europe dropped the ball on its own defence and was left fawning over Donald Trump – podcast
Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation The language from European leaders was fawning and obsequious. At one point, the head of Nato, Mark Rutte, even called Donald Trump “daddy”. But when the US president left the Nato summit in late June, there was a […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: One ‘big, beautiful’ reason why Republicans in Congress just can’t quit Donald Trump
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Charlie Hunt, Associate Professor of Political Science, Boise State University The U.S. Capitol is seen shortly after the Senate passed its version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on July 1, 2025. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images As the U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve President Donald Trump’s […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: Conservatives notch 2 victories in their fight to deny Planned Parenthood federal funding through Medicaid
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Rachel Rebouché, Professor of Law, Temple University Conservatives have won two important battles in their decades-long campaign against Planned Parenthood, a network of affiliated clinics that are the largest provider of reproductive health services in the U.S. One of these victories was a U.S. Supreme Court ruling handed […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: Parents who oppose sex education in schools often don’t discuss it at home
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Robin Pickering, Professor and Chair, Public Health, Gonzaga University Lawmakers and school boards across the country have established policies that limit what schools can teach about gender, sexuality and reproductive health. Alexmia/iStock via Getty Images Public battles over what schools can teach about sex, identity and relationships, often […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: Hong Kong’s light fades as another pro-democracy party folds
Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Brendan Clift, Lecturer in Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney Thomas Yau/Shutterstock The demise of one of Hong Kong’s last major pro-democracy parties, the League of Social Democrats, is the latest blow to the city’s crumbling democratic credentials. The league is the third major opposition party to disband […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: Friday essay: ‘whose agony is greater than mine?’ Testimonies of Gaza and October 7 ask us to recognise shared humanity
Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Juliet Rogers, Associate Professor Criminology, The University of Melbourne In 1962, poet and Auschwitz survivor Yehiel Dinur took the stand in Jerusalem in the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Dinur was a much-anticipated witness, bearing the audience’s hope this man, a poet, would be able […]
MIL-OSI Analysis: Military force may have delayed Iran’s nuclear ambitions – but history shows that diplomacy is the more effective nonproliferation strategy
Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Stephen Collins, Professor of Government and International Affairs, Kennesaw State University View of the United Nations logo at a 2022 conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images) While the U.S. military’s strikes on Iran on June […]
MIL-OSI United Kingdom: Nationwide clampdown on delivery riders working illegally
Source: United Kingdom – Executive Government & Departments News story Nationwide clampdown on delivery riders working illegally Ramp-up of arrests and visits set to take place across the UK targeting migrants working illegally in the gig economy Immigration enforcement van Enforcement teams are gearing up to launch a nationwide blitz targeting illegal working hotspots, with […]
MIL-OSI United Kingdom: Minister Smith Keynote Speech at SKOPE Skills Summit, Oxford
Source: United Kingdom – Executive Government & Departments Speech Minister Smith Keynote Speech at SKOPE Skills Summit, Oxford Speech delivered by Skills Minister Jacqui Smith at the University of Oxford on higher education reform, access and participation and working with the FE sector Introduction Good morning. Thank you for inviting me today. I am delighted […]
MIL-OSI Security: Secretary Noem Commends President Trump and One Big Beautiful Bill Signing into Law: Historic Win for the American People and the Rule of Law
Source: US Department of Homeland Security This historic legislation will help deliver on President’s Trump’s mandate to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens WASHINGTON – Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem today released the following statement on President Donald J. Trump’s historic signing of the One Big Beautiful Bill (BBB) Act into law. […]
MIL-OSI Submissions: How the myth of ‘Blitz spirit’ defined and divided London after 7/7
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Darren Kelsey, Reader in Media and Collective Psychology, Newcastle University The “Blitz spirit” is one of Britain’s most enduring national myths – the stories we tell ourselves about who we were, and who we still believe we are today. Growing up among football fans, I heard constant nostalgic […]
MIL-OSI Submissions: Hong Kong’s light fades as another pro-democracy party folds
Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Brendan Clift, Lecturer in Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney Thomas Yau/Shutterstock The demise of one of Hong Kong’s last major pro-democracy parties, the League of Social Democrats, is the latest blow to the city’s crumbling democratic credentials. The league is the third major opposition party to disband […]
MIL-OSI Submissions: One ‘big, beautiful’ reason why Republicans in Congress just can’t quit Donald Trump
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Charlie Hunt, Associate Professor of Political Science, Boise State University The U.S. Capitol is seen shortly after the Senate passed its version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on July 1, 2025. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images As the U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve President Donald Trump’s […]
MIL-OSI Submissions: Military force may have delayed Iran’s nuclear ambitions – but history shows that diplomacy is the more effective nonproliferation strategy
Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Stephen Collins, Professor of Government and International Affairs, Kennesaw State University View of the United Nations logo at a 2022 conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images) While the U.S. military’s strikes on Iran on June […]
MIL-OSI Security: Update 300 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine
Source: International Atomic Energy Agency – IAEA Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) lost all off-site power for several hours today, once again underlining the extremely fragile nuclear safety situation at the site, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today. The plant’s connection to its last remaining 750 kilovolt (kV) power line was cut […]