TIJ Talks

World Vision, an enormous international evangelical charity, is active in nearly 100 countries with a total revenue of more than $2 billion. In 2014, World Vision received a grant of over $700,000 from USAID.

The Houthi insurgency in Yemen is a military rebellion pitting Zaidi Shia Houthis (though the movement also includes Sunni Muslims against the Yemeni military that began in Northern Yemen and has since escalated into a full-scale civil war.

An American family is suing a Turkish bank over its alleged financing of the US designated foreign terrorist organization: Hamas. This isn’t any normal terrorism financing lawsuit however; one of the bank’s largest shareholders is also a NATO member.

Amsterdam stands on the precipice of a security crisis and not one Dutch public official in city government is paying attention. The empowerment of Salafist, ultra conservative Muslims in Holland, dozens of residents emigrating to Syria to fight for ISIS …

The United States and the UK are known for their refusal to pay ransoms for the release of their citizens captured abroad.

The Turkish invasion into north-eastern Syria has started a new phase in the 8-year long war.

A bloody month, and even bloodier week has stricken Iraq with dozens of protest killed and thousands more seriously injured.

The U.S. State Department has categorized China’s ongoing maltreatment of its Uyghur Muslim community as one of “the worst human rights [disasters] of modern times.

The massive jail break of ISIS fighters, their wives, and children from Navkur prision near Qamishli, Syria plays out one of the worst nightmares facing Western national security policymakers … Watch Video →

In certain Islamic denominations, the hijab is seen as an expression of religious modesty. Some Western countries see the head scarf and covering as a form of misogynistic theocratic oppression. Iranian women … Watch Video →

This week governments, non-profit organizations, scientists, and concerned global citizens met in New York City to attend the Global Climate Action Summit organized by the United Nations. The most pressing issue for the attendees: How to ensure that a bevy of protective and rehabilitate actions be enacted, funded, and executed to provide cover for the regrowth … Watch Video →

For forty years, a mainstay of Iran’s pressure tactics against the West has included kidnapping foreign and dual nationals on Iranian territory, sentencing them to long prison terms under trumped up charges; all with the eye to extracting … Watch Video →

For close to two decades, Venezuela has been on a precipitous decline, suffering economically, freedoms being vanquished, and the rule of law spiraling into chaos.  56 countries, mostly from Europe and the West, now recognize democratic reformer … Watch Video →