Tag: global affairs

• Hajj 2020: A Hajj Like No Other for the Select Few Invited by Allah

  August 2, 2020

  Hajj 2020, small, scaled back and limited numbers, all diametrically opposite the descriptions and scenes we’ve witnessed year upon year. It’s very much a unique moment in history for Muslims… more ›

• This Is Not the End of Cities

  August 2, 2020

  Both the coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement create opportunities to reshape cities in more equitable ways. As overwhelming as the current overlapping crises may seem now, cities have… more ›

• Why Protest Tactics Spread Like Memes

  August 1, 2020

  When items like umbrellas and leaf blowers are subverted into objects of resistance, they become very shareable. A video frame captured in Hong Kong in August 2019 shows a group… more ›

• India, Jio, and the Four Internets

  July 26, 2020

  One of the more pernicious mistruths surrounding the debate about TikTok is that this will potentially lead to the splintering of the Internet; this completely erases the history of China’s… more ›

• The World’s Most Technologically Sophisticated Genocide Is Happening in Xinjiang

  July 21, 2020

  Two recent disturbing events may finally awaken the world to the scale and horror of the atrocities being committed against the Uighurs, a mostly secular Muslim ethnic minority, in Xinjiang,… more ›

• Special Report: Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexico’s cell tower repairmen

  July 21, 2020

  MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The young technician shut off the electricity at a cellular tower in rural Mexico to begin some routine maintenance. Within 10 minutes, he had company: three… more ›

• Online Surveillance, Censorship, and Discrimination for LGBTQIA+ Community Worldwide

  July 16, 2020

  Recorded Future investigated data security risks associated with multiple social and dating apps that are popular with the LGBTQIA+ community, and how those apps were being discussed on dark web… more ›

• Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier

  July 16, 2020

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Oliver Taylor, a student at England’s University of Birmingham, is a twenty-something with brown eyes, light stubble, and a slightly stiff smile. Online profiles describe him as… more ›

• China’s Plans to Win Control of the Global Order

  July 15, 2020

  The Chinese Communist Party leadership believe they are in the midst of an ‘intense, ideological struggle’ for survival and that to win they must defeat the West. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/china-plans-global-order more ›

• Xi Jinping in Translation: China’s Guiding Ideology

  July 15, 2020

  What ideology guides the star of rising Chinese power? General Secretary Xi Jinping’s answer to this question is unequivocal: “Socialism with Chinese characteristics is socialism, not any other ‘ism.’” Xi… more ›