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| Mar 20, 2026 | Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control | When Rep. Leigh Finke spoke last month before the Minnesota House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee to testify against HF1434, a broad-sweeping proposal to age-gate the internet, she began with something disarming: agreement.
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| Jan 29, 2026 | MoD Signs £240M Contract with US-owned Palantir | The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded US tech company Palantir with a £240.6 million contract over three-years to work on its data analytics.
The deal will start on 1 April; the contract was described as an agreement “for continued l... |
| Oct 8, 2025 | JP Morgan beefs up seaside UK office as it backs ‘talent of tomorrow’ | US banking juggernaut JP Morgan has announced a hefty UK investment as part of plans to beef up its home base in the country.
The bank said it will invest over £300m into its Bournemouth campus, which will help facilitate a new building and... |
| May 29, 2024 | UK Election 2024: Tories Have Received £8.4M from Fossil Fuel Lobby and Climate Deniers Since 2019 | 7 Mins Read As the UK gears up for another election, an investigation shows the Conservative Party has accrued £8.4M in donations from fossil fuel interests and climate deniers since winning the last election in 2019.
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| May 17, 2024 | Education: a key battleground for anti-gender activists | What do protests over gender-neutral school toilets in South Africa have to do with teachers being harassed in Brazil or curriculum changes in El Salvador? In brief, they are all the result of mobilization against the perceived threat of ‘g... |
| Feb 13, 2024 | Despite Denials, Harsh Anti-LGBTQ+ law in Uganda Appears to Be Based on U.S. Rhetoric and Pseudoscience | For decades now, the “kill the gays” bill has appeared to have been the endgame of U.S.-based anti-LGBTQ+ groups.
President Museveni and first lady Janet Museveni met with Sharon Slater and members of her organization Family Watch Internati... |
| Jan 18, 2024 | Elon Musk praises Javier Milei's World Economic Forum speech — and gets his Grok AI to make his annual dig at Davos | Tech Elon Musk praises Javier Milei's World Economic Forum speech — and gets his Grok AI to make his annual dig at Davos
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| Dec 1, 2023 | Plant-Based Infants: Danone to Enter Vegan Baby Formula Market with Else Collaboration | 5 Mins Read French food giant Danone has signed a letter of intent with Canadian brand Else Nutrition to make a move into the vegan infant formula segment. Already commanding 71% of the UK market with Aptamil, Nutricia and Cow & Gate, t... |
| Nov 11, 2023 | Ukraine's security service raided a factory in Ukraine making uniforms for the Russian national ski team, report says | Military & Defense Ukraine's security service raided a factory in Ukraine making uniforms for the Russian national ski team, report says
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| Sep 30, 2023 | Ukraine's counteroffensive raises doubts about whether the US and Western militaries are training their troops for the right kind of war | A soldier giving instructions to a tank crew during an exercise in Ukraine in May. Viktor Fridshon/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images
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| Aug 31, 2023 | Global Opposition To Abortion Is Getting More Strategic | By Amanda Seller, President MSI United States |
| Aug 12, 2023 | Ukrainian troops left 'underprepared' by NATO training as instructors don't understand the type of warfare or the enemy, report says | An instructor briefs Ukrainian soldiers during grenade training at a training center near Yavoriv, Ukraine, on April 29, 2017. Oklahoma Army National Guard/Sgt. Anthony Jones
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| Jun 19, 2023 | Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor | Letters to the editor: Fox News big tax break; Boulder thrives at Community Bicycle; holding Xcel accountable | David Klamann: Finances: Fox News to get $213 million tax break
Fox News could be getting a tax break as large as $213 million thanks to the federal tax code, which allows Fox to deduct its criminal activity by claiming that defamation is j... |
| Jun 11, 2023 | Uganda now has the death penalty for certain same-sex acts. Imported US 'Christian values' accused of inciting anti-LGBTQ persecution in Africa. | Business Insider Uganda now has the death penalty for certain same-sex acts. Imported US 'Christian values' accused of inciting anti-LGBTQ persecution in Africa.
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| Jun 2, 2023 | The Tories can never be true friends of Palestine | Last month, at an event commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Nakba in the British Parliament, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, a Conservative member of the House of Lords, formally announced the creation of the Conservative Friends of Palestine... |
| Jun 1, 2023 | Why governments love private consultants and their ‘billables’ | A quick search on YouTube or TikTok and it would not be difficult to find videos parodying consultants. The running joke is that no one really knows what consultants do. Yet they are slick, have an air of reckless confidence, use generic te... |
| Mar 20, 2023 | NHS England tells trusts to upload patient data to Palantir by end of March, report | Hospitals in England have been told to pass patient data to Palantir, the US data mining firm thought to be in poll position to win a £480 million data management contract to create a Federated Data Platform (FDP).
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| Jan 8, 2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Joyce Dalsheim and Gregory Starrett: Christian nationalism is downplayed in the Jan. 6 report, collective memory | By Joyce Dalsheim and Gregory Starrett
When they entered the Senate chamber on Jan. 6, 2021, a group of insurgents stopped and bowed their heads in prayer to consecrate the building and their cause to Jesus. When the Senate reconvened later... |
| Dec 18, 2022 | Why The Federal Reserve Can’t Solve Food Price Inflation | Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| Oct 7, 2022 | China gains when democracies target press freedoms | This June, authorities in the Philippines ordered the boldly independent news website Rappler to shut down. In February 2021, a powerful Senegalese government minister won a defamation case against the daily Le Témoin. That same month in Ma... |
| Sep 21, 2022 | Finding Out What Russians Think—Without Asking Them | “When will Russia liberate Ukraine?”
“Will there be a war with NATO?”
“A list of dead Russian soldiers in Ukraine”
“Will there be payments from Putin?”
“Traitors of Russia 2022”
These are just some of the actual phrases people in Russia hav... |
| Jul 1, 2022 | PM Boris Johnson: A Master In Manipulating Search Engines | According to many cyber specialists, Boris Johnson is nothing less than a genius when it comes to his abilities to manipulate search engine results about himself. In other words, the experts contend that he knows all too well how to bury al... |
| Jun 7, 2022 | US ‘Energy Independence’ Is Real, ‘Global Prices’ Are Not: A Short-Term Oil Production & Price Mitigation Plan | A color lithographed Victorian era sheet music cover (by Henry Eno) to promote the discovery of ... [+] petroleum, New York, New York, 1864. (Photo by Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images) Getty Images |
| May 13, 2022 | Prices, Preclusive Purchases, And Production: Some Forgotten Solutions To Forgotten Inflation Problems | Cartoon by Bernard Tobey depicts men and women as they happily work together to build aircraft ... [+] cowlings, each of which is decorated with a Christmas wreath, 1940s. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Getty Images |
| May 7, 2022 | How do humanitarian agencies help refugees become independent? | How do humanitarian agencies help refugees become independent: Image: Adobe stock
When 5.3 million Ukrainians entered the EU between February and June 2022, alongside life-saving emergency assistance came similarly crucial support: the righ... |
| Apr 14, 2022 | Краткая история профсоюзов: с чего все началось и есть ли они в IT | На Хабре уже который год появляются посты и комментарии, посвященные созданию профсоюза IT специалистов. Особенно после фееричной попытки Rambler'а «отжать» Nginx у Игоря Сысоева, или не менее скандальной истории увольнения сотрудников перм... |
| Mar 11, 2022 | Getir rethinks investment linked to “Putin crony” Potanin | Turkish speedy grocery company Getir says it will reassess its links to Russian VC firm Winter Capital should Vladimir Potanin, an oligarch linked to the investment firm, face sanctions.
Russian VC Winter Capital participated in Getir’s Ser... |
| Feb 25, 2022 | Граждане собрались антивоенно | 36K 85 9 мин. ...
В четверг в ряде городов России полицией было задержано, по данным правозащитников, более 1,5 тыс. участников стихийных акций протеста против операции вооруженных сил РФ на Украине. Наиболее массовое мероприятие прошло в М... |
| Sep 30, 2021 | Boris Johnson handed a life peerage and ministerial job to a Tory donor who gave the party £122,500 | UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Dan Kitwood – WPA Pool/Getty Images
Boris Johnson gave a ministerial job to a Tory donor, and also made him a life peer.
Malcolm Offord, a financier, is now a junior minister in the Scotland Office.
Offord g... |
| Sep 19, 2021 | Профсоюзный дайджест. Цифровое подавление, бригады “удоленщиков”, 10 суток ареста, зарплатный железный занавес, IT 90-е | Не время для разногласийНе оставайся один
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Эта неделя выдалась очень горячей: массовые блокировки, арест председателя профсоюза курьер, попытки удаления постов о работодателях (и моих в том числе), возвращение эпохи 90-х в айт... |
| Sep 7, 2021 | Fintechs slam UK regulator for licensing delays | Fintechs hoping to get approved by the UK financial regulator are in for a long wait.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is in high demand after seeing a 70% spike in applications for payment licences in the past year, fuelled by Brexit ... |
| Jul 29, 2021 | Enough About FOSTA's 'Unintended Consequences'; They Were Always Intended | It feels inevitable that if you’re talking about FOSTA/SESTA (the federal law passed in 2018 that amended section 230), someone, at some point, will mention that it was aimed at combatting sex trafficking that had unintended impacts on folk... |
| Jul 29, 2021 | Enough About FOSTA's 'Unintended Consequences'; They Were Always Intended | It feels inevitable that if you?re talking about FOSTA/SESTA (the federal law passed in 2018 that amended section 230), someone, at some point, will mention that it was aimed at combatting sex trafficking that had unintended impacts on folk... |
| Jul 28, 2021 | UKCloud Health announces commitment to deliver the NHS Data Saves Lives vision | UKCloud Health brings together digital technology and specialist partners to accelerate health and social care evolution through its Health Cloud initiative
London – 28th July 2021 – UKCloud Health, the multi-cloud experts who help health a... |
| Jul 22, 2021 | Decolonizing Global Health: A Moment To Reflect On A Movement | 17 July 2020, Berlin: "Decolonize" is sprayed on the Bismarck National Monument in Berlin which is ... [+] smeared with paint. Photo: Sven Braun/dpa (Photo by Sven Braun/picture alliance via Getty Images) dpa/picture alliance via ... |
| May 22, 2021 | A female engineer said Google failed to tackle her harassment-at-home case. It shows how blurring work and home can create pitfalls for businesses. | An ex-Googler said her complaints of harassment were dismissed because it happened out of the office.
Lockdown has blurred the boundaries between the workplace and the home.
Industry experts told Insider businesses must re-examine their pol... |
| May 22, 2021 | A female engineer said Google failed to tackle her harassment-at-home case. It shows how blurring work and home can create pitfalls for businesses. | An ex-Googler said her complaints of harassment were dismissed because it happened out of the office.
Lockdown has blurred the boundaries between the workplace and the home.
Industry experts told Insider businesses must re-examine their pol... |
| Apr 23, 2021 | Screenshot: Is the Super League the biggest PR disaster of all time? | This week |
| Mar 3, 2021 | ‘Building Back Better’ Phase Two – Time Now To Jumpstart Domestic Production | SCENE ON THE ERIE CANAL, 1842. WASH DRAWING.Bettmann Archive |
| Feb 15, 2021 | We Can Use The Pandemic To Reimagine Global Health Teaching | The Covid-19 pandemic, combined with online teaching, has allowed professors to re-imagine global ... [+] health teaching during this crisisgetty |
| Feb 8, 2021 | Ebola, Covid-19 And The Elusive Quest For Global Health Equity | Freetown, Sierra Leone - December 14, 2015: Dr. Paul Farmer visits Ebola survivor Yabom Koroma and ... [+] her family at their home in the Mountain Cut section of FreetownJon Lascher / PIH |
| Jan 21, 2021 | Mobilizing Zimbabwe’s Young Women’s Social Standing Beyond Patriarchal Boundaries | Glanis Changachirere, founder of Institute for Young Women Development .Glanis Changachirere |
| Jan 19, 2021 | If Trump Can Be Banned, What About Other World Leaders Who Incite Violence? | Twitter finally banned Donald Trump on January 8th, 12 days before the end of his term as president, and two days after he instigated a violent mob that stormed the Capitol as Congress met to certify the results of the 2020 election. Facebo... |
| Jan 11, 2021 | Mauritius In Crisis As Militarized Police Deployed Against Peaceful Protestors | 7 Jan 2021: Protests in capital city of Mauritius, Port Louis, at a court hearing against Mauritius ... [+] Cabinet Minister ahead of a case that could eventually overturn the outcome of the country's general electionAufait Media Mauritius |
| Dec 24, 2020 | An AI reporter’s favorite books of 2020 | The older I get, the more I wish I could stop time so I could read more books. Books that earn my time and attention are those that promise to enrich me as a person and deepen my understanding of AI for the work I do as senior AI staff writ... |
| Dec 24, 2020 | An AI reporter’s favorite books of 2020 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The older I get, the more I wish I could stop time so I could read more books. Books that earn my time and attention are those that pro... |
| Dec 22, 2020 | More than 40 anti-LGBT organisations were found fundraising on Amazon’s charity program — and Amazon won’t say it if plans to remove them | Amazon’s website hosted anti-LGBT organisations as part of its Amazon Smile program. Ttatty/Shutterstock
Anti-LGBT organisations have been able to fundraise through Amazon’s charitable donation program AmazonSmile, a new report from nonprof... |
| Dec 22, 2020 | More than 40 anti-LGBT organizations were found fundraising on Amazon's charity program - and Amazon won't say it if plans to remove them | Anti-LGBT organizations have been able to fundraise through Amazon's charitable donation program AmazonSmile, a new report from nonprofit Open Democracy says.
The program allows customers to donate to charities when shopping on Amazon.
This... |
| Dec 8, 2020 | France's Treatment of Its Muslim Citizens Is the True Measure of Its Republican Values | Since the 2015 terrorist attacks against the staff of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, France has faced a succession of such attacks by Muslim extremists, the most recent of which saw the October beheading of teacher Samuel Paty and the mu... |
| Nov 12, 2020 | Deloitte defends £38.8m test and trace reward | Management consultancy Deloitte has defended earning £38.8m for services relating to the government’s coronavirus ‘test and trace’ system. |
| Nov 2, 2020 | How to End the Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh | This fall, one of the world’s most protracted conflicts reignited in Nagorno-Karabakh. Since 1988, Armenia and Azerbaijan have sparred over the future of the majority-Armenian enclave, which is landlocked within Azerbaijan and subject to co... |
| Oct 28, 2020 | Advancing Beneficial Ownership Transparency in the United States | The anonymous corporate ownership of shell companies crosses the boundaries of countries and of industries. Some implications are visible to the naked eye: Across the world, luxury buildings stand empty in high-demand cities. Others are ins... |
| Oct 12, 2020 | Understanding the Political Crisis in Kyrgyzstan | As dawn broke on Oct. 6 in Bishkek, the Kyrgyz capital, it was unclear who was running the country. Thousands of protestors had taken to the streets the previous day to protest the results of a parliamentary election widely viewed as fraudu... |
| Aug 6, 2020 | UK reported to be ditching coronavirus contacts tracing in favor of ‘risk rating’ app | What’s going on with the U.K.’s coronavirus contacts-tracing app? Reports in the national press today suggest a launch of the much-delayed software will happen this month but also that the app will no longer be able to automatically carry o... |
| Jul 21, 2020 | UK gov’t asleep at the wheel on Russia cyber ops threat, report warns | The UK lacks a comprehensive and cohesive high level strategy to respond to the cyber threat posed by Russia and other hostile states using online disinformation and influence ops to target democratic institutions and values, a parliamentar... |
| Jun 5, 2020 | UK’s COVID-19 health data contracts with Google and Palantir finally emerge | Contracts for a number of coronavirus data deals that the U.K. government inked in haste with U.S. tech giants, including Google and Palantir, plus a U.K.-based AI firm called Faculty, have been published today by openDemocracy and law firm... |
| Jun 2, 2020 | UK Gov Contract Awarded to Vote Leave AI Firm, Faculty | Artificial intelligence firm, Faculty, which has close ties to the Vote Leave campaign and senior Tory figures, has been awarded a new coronavirus support contract by the UK Government.
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Governm... |
| Apr 16, 2020 | COVID-19 Is a Severe Test for Germany’s Postwar Constitution | On March 22, in response to a stark reassessment of the risk of infection with the novel coronavirus and skyrocketing increases in case numbers, Germany finally took drastic measures. Chancellor Angela Merkel—who only days before had emphas... |
| Oct 11, 2019 | Accountability for Islamic State Fighters: What Are the Options? | President Trump’s sudden announcement that the U.S. would withdraw forces from along the Syria-Turkey border has already had dramatic consequences. Turkish armed forces launched an invasion into northern Syria dubbed “Operation Peace Spring... |
| Jul 22, 2019 | How to Launch a Vegan Industrial Revolution | Could ‘shroomdogs’ and ‘veggie ribs’ be modern emblems of British innovation? These were two of the meat-free delights on offer at Sainsbury’s ‘vegan butchers’ – the UK’s first – which opened its doors to Londoners in late June. As one of t... |
| Mar 31, 2019 | The Limits of British Citizenship | Editor’s Note: What to do with captured foreign volunteers for terrorist organizations is one of the toughest issues facing Western governments today. (See my views on a current U.S. case here.) Human rights organizations are particularly c... |
| May 25, 2018 | Facebook has not stopped dark ads from undermining Ireland’s abortion vote | CORK, Ireland — Just 11 hours before polling stations opened on Friday morning for Ireland’s historic vote on abortion legislation, a new Facebook page popped up, buying ads aimed at undecided voters.
Titled MiddleIreland, it claims to brin... |
| May 13, 2018 | Why Countries Should Welcome, Not Fear, Foreign Funding of NGOs | Editor’s Note: When foreigners give money to political organizations, both the donor and the recipient often become suspect. Governments around the world that fear criticism, oppose human rights, or otherwise reject the agendas of these gro... |
| Sep 19, 2017 | Деньги на крови Статьи редакции | Рассказ о рынке донорства плазмы в США — его устройстве, рисках распространения инфекционных заболеваний, грязных центрах и вынужденных пожертвованиях.
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| Aug 30, 2017 | Rules for Reconstruction in Syria | Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz.
On August 17, Syrian officials oversaw the opening of the first Damascus International Exhibition since the start of the Syrian uprising. Reflecting the triumphalism now widely on dis... |
| Jul 3, 2017 | Barcelona Startup News July 3, 2017 | Hello and Happy Monday! We hope you had a fabulous weekend soaking in this perfect weather. It’s the final push before everyone splits for summer holidays – make July count!
Let’s dive right in. Here’s what you need to know about startups ... |
| Dec 5, 2016 | Did the Arab World Miss Its Chance to Democratize? | The Arab uprising in 2011 prompted months of excitement about the potential for governance reform and even democratization in the Arab world. But as the protests gave way to massacres, civil war, and renewed repression—what Marc Lynch has c... |
| Nov 22, 2016 | Middle East Ticker: Assad Regime Destroys Last Hospitals in Aleppo, Tunisia Confronts Its Past, and Another Truce in Yemen Fails | Assad Regime Advances in Aleppo, Destroys Remaining Hospitals
The Assad regime is pressing ahead with an offensive against rebel-held districts in eastern Aleppo. The new push, which according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOH... |
| Nov 5, 2016 | Top Fintech Vietnam News October | Read here all the top fintech vietnam news for october.
BankGo Launches Open Beta in Vietnam And Just Closed a Seed Round With $3m Premoney Valuation
Through BankGo, Borrowers can be able to borrow money from Banks more easily to buy house/... |
| Sep 13, 2016 | Middle East Ticker: A New Syrian Ceasefire and a Saudi-Iran Oil Spat | What to expect from the new ceasefire in Syria.
After a particularly bloody weekend, a new ceasefire agreement entered effect in Syria at 7 PM local time on Monday, and after some initial violations now appears to be taking hold. The arrang... |
| Aug 23, 2016 | A List of Female Technology Policy Experts | Update: That escalated quickly. This list started with 15 names of women with insight on a particular issue of law and technology policy. In just over 24 hours, we have over 230 names of a wide variety of experts and over 100 more not yet a... |
| Apr 5, 2016 | ANC’s failure to do the right thing has left South Africa at an impasse | |
| Jan 20, 2016 | Anger brewing over naming of Pfizer exec to UK foundation board | A row has broken out in the United Kingdom where a health system foundation has named a Pfizer official to its nonexecutive board, raising complaints about a potentially harmful conflict of interest.
The King’s College Hospital, which is on... |
| Jan 15, 2016 | Syria: Starvation as a Tactic of War | In the last few weeks, the world has confronted horrifying photographs of children with sunken eyes and emaciated bodies and haunting anecdotes of men eating strawberry leaves after having not had real meals in months. These images told of ... |
| Dec 14, 2015 | Spanish Government Using Obstructionism And Bureaucracy To Nullify Transparency Law | For obvious reasons, many politicians hate the whole idea of allowing freedom of information requests. Former prime minister Tony Blair, whose government brought in the UK’s Freedom of Information Act, said he bitterly regretted doing so. A... |
| Dec 2, 2015 | Canadian Cops Have a New Plan of Attack Against ‘Political’ Cybercrime and Anonymous | After several high-profile investigations into Anonymous failed to net results, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are looking to set up a cyber crime team in Ottawa that will tackle online threats to Canada's "political, economic, and ... |
| Oct 16, 2015 | SA cops may soon wear body cameras | |
| Oct 16, 2015 | SA mulls body-worn cameras for police | |
| Jul 13, 2015 | Kyiv Dispatch: The View from Ukraine | More than a year after protesters filled the Ukraine’s Maidan, it is hard to imagine the dramatic scenes that defined this square during the revolution. There are still signs: the scattered memorials, picture galleries explaining the revolu... |
| May 27, 2015 | How to Stop Gentrification in London: What We Can Learn from Spain's New Rebel Mayors | Ahora Madrid campaigners celebrate their victory in the municipal elections (Photo by Felipe Hernàndez)
Imagine if NHS worker and single mother Lindsey Garrett, who campaigned to save the New Era Estate from development sharks, was the next... |
| Apr 15, 2015 | Inside Ben Gardane, Tunisia's Jihadist Enclave | Arriving in Ben Gardane, a tiny area in Tunisia just minutes from the border with Libya, feels like crossing into a bona fide rogue state. Gone are the tourist-friendly resorts, the open-minded attitudes, and the patriotic "new democra... |
| Feb 21, 2015 | Suggestions that Twitter is not a valid news source are insane | This morning, as I do most mornings, I started my day by firing up my phone and browsing the news headlines in bed. One story caught my attention -- and the reaction to the story in particular. As you'll have discerned from the headline, th... |
| Apr 18, 2013 | Lord Martin Rees on New Technological Threats | In this short video, Lord Martin Rees---the British astrophysicist and cosmologist--gives a brief and elegant statement of the problem Gabriella Blum and I have been writing a book about: the dissemination of radically-empowering technologi... |
| Aug 16, 2012 | The U.S. is Going After Bradley Manning's Friends, So David House Trolled Them Back | The trial of U.S. Army private Bradley Manning doesn’t begin until September. But since the former intelligence analyst was placed under military detention over 800 days ago, accused of prying thousands of secret diplomatic cables and one n... |
| Jul 13, 2010 | Don't Be A Jerk To A Minor In Louisiana Or Say Anything Sexually Suggestive In Scotland | Back in May we wrote about how Louisiana was the latest state to try to pass overly broad anti-“cyberbullying” legislation, that would make it illegal to say anything online that might “embarrass” anyone under 17. With a few modifications t... |
| Apr 1, 2009 | More Worries About UK Libel Laws Leading To 'Defamation Tourism' | For years, we’ve talked about how the significantly lower barrier to showing libel in the UK (and the higher damages) have resulted in people suing for libel in the UK for online content, even if there’s no connection (at all) to the UK. Ye... |
| Jul 17, 2003 | Pro-Gumbo: Culture As Anarchy | Last month we posted an article discussing how peer-to-peer file sharing was demonstrating the battle of tyranny vs. anarchy. I didn’t agree with the entire piece that was written, but thought it was an interesting way of forcing people to ... |
| Jun 26, 2003 | The New Information Ecosystem: Cultures Of Anarchy And Closure | One interesting thing in the ongoing debate about file sharing is that every side (and, it’s increasingly obvious that there are more than two sides in this) tries to redefine the debate in their own terms. This makes sense, clearly, since ... |
| LGBTQ Ukrainians and Russians find solidarity in Berlin | Listen to this story:
Berlin, Germany – Having visited the German capital twice before, Polina Punegova, from the Russian port city of St Petersburg, had often told her Ukrainian partner Yulia Maznyk that she would love Berlin’s architectur... |
| Евроинтеграция и приватизация: чего добиваются лидеры белорусской оппозиции | По-прежнему массовые протесты в Белоруссии начали буксовать. Месяц назад, 16 августа, оценки числа участников шествия в Минске доходили до 400 000 человек. В прошлые выходные, по данным платформы «Голос», в столице вышло 170 000 человек, а ... |
| A leaked video exemplifies what Black migrants endure in US detention centers | A leaked video obtained by Insider shows guards violently tackling a Black asylum seeker at a Louisiana detention center.
Detainees and immigration lawyers say there is a disturbing and overlooked problem of anti-Black racism in immigration... |
| #JusticeForAlika: What will it take to end racism in Italy? | On Thursday, August 11 at 19:30 GMT:
On July 29th Alika Ogorchukwu – a 39-year-old husband and father – was beaten to death in the afternoon on the street of a busy seaside town in Italy while witnesses and bystanders filmed the attack. A l... |
| The UK’s New AI Traffic Cam Spots Nearly 300 Violations in 3 Days | We already know that artificial intelligence is set to take thousands of jobs. But is AI about to disrupt your morning commute as well?
A new free-standing traffic camera powered by AI has spotted and photographed almost 300 violations in t... |
| 11 Tory leadership candidates' donors and war chests analysed ahead of £300,000 contest | Frontrunner Rishi Sunak NIKLAS HALLE'N/AFP via Getty Images
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| Profile: Who are Ukraine’s far-right Azov regiment? | As the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its sixth day, a Ukrainian far-right military regiment is back in the headlines.
Russian President Vladimir Putin referenced the presence of such units within the Ukrainian military as one of the re... |
| The Ukrainian Muslims fighting against Russia | Kharkiv, Ukraine – Ali Khadzali stands among the blown-out buildings of his hometown, Kharkiv, about 50 kilometres (31 miles) from Ukraine’s border with Russia.
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February, Khadzali has worked with ... |
| October surprise: Who’s who in the unprecedented wave of investment scam raids | The month of October has seen an unprecedented number of police raids, arrests and extradition proceedings against Israeli alleged investment fraudsters, suggesting that law enforcement bodies abroad are intensifying their crackdown on Isra... |
| The images of Afghans falling from the sky close the book on America's tragic and futile response to 9/11 | Afghans climb onto the roof of a jet at Kabul's airport on August 16. WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Wine-washing the Israeli occupation | Back in 2016, Washington Post emissary Anne-Marie O’Connor ventured to the illegal Israeli West Bank outpost of Havat Gilad to report on how “tourism is the new front in Israeli settlers’ battle for legitimacy”. Indeed, there were not many ... |
