#sovereignty

#sovereignty

“We fought for the right to self-govern, and that political liberation can never be taken for granted,” says Mzee Josphat Kimanthi, 74, a retired civil servant in Machakos, Kenya. But Kimanthi also sees a widening gap between generations and a growing sense that the promises of independence have not fully translated into present realities. “We thought political freedom would automatically bring economic freedom. Instead, I watch my grandchildren struggle with the high cost of living under debts we did not sign up for,” he told Al Jazeera.

We want a good relationship with the United States government. What are our limits? The defence of sovereignty and respect for the Mexican people and their dignity.

Ghana would not sign a multi-year deal, reportedly worth around US$109 million, because Ghana would have to waive key aspects of its health sovereignty. This includes sharing control over its health care decisions, data, and resources with US authorities.

Matt Odell, a prominent advocate for Bitcoin privacy, has dedicated over a decade to educating individuals on freedom technology, emphasizing the importance of self-custody and privacy in Bitcoin usage.

"Today, our Board took decisive action to protect what generations before us fought to build. These so-called prediction markets are an attempt to bypass tribal authority and recast gambling as a financial product. We will not allow that. We will stand united to defend tribal sovereignty and the integrity of Indian gaming."

Carrez calls this 'the survival problem,' and it forms part of his definition of sovereignty - digital, data, AI, and so on. He says, 'A lot of people are just talking about digital sovereignty as like a catchphrase for a bunch of things.'

[Afroman's] story of standing up to power and winning resonates deeply with Bitcoin's ethos of sovereignty and financial freedom.

Tehran, Iran Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian has called on the United States to respect his country as the two nations look ahead to another round of nuclear negotiations next week following mediated discussions in Oman. Our reasoning on the nuclear issue is based on rights stipulated in the Non-Proliferation Treaty, he wrote in a post on X on Sunday. The Iranian nation has always responded to respect with respect, but cannot withstand the language of force.

I 've been looking back at Brexit through the rear-view mirror of Alberta's runaway referendum train. And I've been studying David Cameron, the British prime minister who called for the Brexit referendum in 2013. Ran a re-election campaign on the promise of one. Was handed a majority government in 2015 in part on the basis of that promise. Ran a campaign to remain in the European Union in 2016. Lost. And then resigned the next day.

Alberta separatists seek funding from the Trump administration after three reported meetings. Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney has said that he expects the United States to respect the country's sovereignty after reports that Alberta separatists have met several times with officials of the Donald Trump administration. The Financial Times reported that US State Department officials held meetings with the Alberta Prosperity Project (APP), a group calling for a referendum on whether the energy-rich western province should leave Canada.

Those operations tend to reveal the same fragility: specialized equipment dependent on foreign manufacturers and logistics chains stretched across borders and oceans. The flag may be Canadian. The infrastructure, often, is not. Prime Minister Mark Carney has said repeatedly that the future of national defence depends on building domestic capability and diversifying our defence partnerships. We have made commitments to meeting our NATO defence spending targets,

We emphasise once again our desire for the US contempt for our country to end, the leaders of all five political parties elected to Greenland's parliament said in a joint statement late on Friday. We do not want to be Americans, we do not want to be Danes, we want to be Greenlanders, they said in the statement, posted on social media by Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen.

President Donald Trump is withdrawing the United States from the world's overarching treaty on climate change in a move that escalates his attempts to reverse years of global negotiations toward addressing rising temperatures. The announcement to sever ties with the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change came as Trump quit dozens of international organizations that the White House said no longer serve U.S. interests by promoting what it called radical climate policies and other issues.

"We hope that during your presidency a lot of steps [can be taken] forward, closer to membership in the EU," Zelenskyy told Christodoulides in televised remarks.

Colombia's Foreign Minister Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio has warned that her country would answer any breach of its sovereignty with a military response, in the wake of threats from United States President Donald Trump. At a news conference on Tuesday, Villavicencio underscored that, under international law, countries have the right to self-defence should they be attacked. list of 3 itemsend of list If such aggression were to occur, the military must defend the national territory and the country's sovereignty, she said.

Every soldier of Colombia has an order from now on: every commander of the public force who prefers the flag of the US to the flag of Colombia must immediately withdraw from the institution by order of the bases and the troops and mine.

This is no place for the U.S. to be doing this. That's a sovereign country, and Trump is acting like a war criminal.