Tag: global affairs

• ‘The New Berlin Wall’: Why Ukraine Is Central to the Scandal

  September 27, 2019

  IVANO-FRANKIVSK, Ukraine — His voice crackling over what he complained was a “terrible” sound system, Donald J. Trump in September 2015 heaped praise on the oligarch who had invited him… more ›

• Revealed: how TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing

  September 25, 2019

  TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned social network, instructs its moderators to censor videos that mention Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, or the banned religious group Falun Gong, according to leaked documents detailing… more ›

• Who Really Attacked Saudi Arabia?

  September 22, 2019

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• Yemen

  September 21, 2019

  The armed conflict in Yemen has killed and injured thousands of Yemeni civilians since it began. https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2019/country-chapters/yemen more ›

• History of free African strongholds fires Brazilian resistance to Bolsonaro

  September 20, 2019

  A palm-fringed ridge rises above the plains of Alagoas in north-east Brazil. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/20/history-of-free-african-strongholds-fires-brazilian-resistance-to-bolsonaro more ›

• ‘We’re at War’: A Covert Social Media Campaign Boosts Military Rulers

  September 8, 2019

  CAIRO — Days after Sudanese soldiers massacred pro-democracy demonstrators in Khartoum in June, an obscure digital marketing company in Cairo began deploying keyboard warriors to a second front: a covert… more ›

• The Future of Cities

  September 6, 2019

  From developments in skyscraper architecture, green energy and driverless transport to social divides within cities and with nations, manufacturers clinging on in the margins and China starting a new metropolis… more ›

• A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism

  August 29, 2019

  In more than twenty years of running diversity-training and cultural-competency workshops for American companies, the academic and educator Robin DiAngelo has noticed that white people are sensationally, histrionically bad at… more ›

• From the Shadows, China’s Communist Party Mobilizes Against Hong Kong Protests

  August 29, 2019

  HONG KONG — Across the border from Hong Kong, the Chinese Communist Party screams its presence with banners and slogans on nearly every street. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/world/asia/hong-kong-communist-china.html more ›

• The illuminating absence of Donald Trump

  August 29, 2019

  Much has already been said, and much will continue to surface on our media feeds in the future about Dave Chappelle’s “Sticks & Stones” Netflix special. What has been said… more ›