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Pompeo travels to Israel to give U.S. blessing to annexation of West Bank land Peace

Pompeo travels to Israel to give U.S. blessing to annexation of West Bank land

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in April 2018. (Thomas Coex / Pool)Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo headed to Jerusalem on Tuesday to bolster besieged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and bestow a U.S. blessing on his country's proposed de facto annexation…
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May 12, 2020
Circular by Design: Camira + SEAQUAL Turn Ocean Plastic into Upholstery Fabric Plastic Pollution

Circular by Design: Camira + SEAQUAL Turn Ocean Plastic into Upholstery Fabric

Yorkshire-based British textiles manufacturer, Camira, has teamed up with the SEAQUAL Initiative – which turns waste plastic captured from the sea by fishermen into yarn – to make the industry’s first upholstery fabric to contain ocean plastic. We caught up with Camira’s group design manager Ciara Crossan to find out…
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May 12, 2020
Book review: Hacker States Julian Assange

Book review: Hacker States

Hacker States, by political sociologist Luca Follis and cultural anthropologist, documentary video producer and interdisciplinary scholar Adam Fish. Publisher MIT Press writes: Luca Follis and Adam Fish examine the entanglements between hackers and the state, showing how hackers and hacking moved from being a target of state law enforcement to…
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May 12, 2020
How Two Young Influencer Marketing Entrepreneurs Have Tapped Into TikToK TikTok

How Two Young Influencer Marketing Entrepreneurs Have Tapped Into TikToK

Mustafa Mohamed and Jidé Maduako George de Freitas With marketing budgets squeezed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and production having to pull the shutters down, advertisers, apps, and brands are increasingly looking to TikTok influencers as a cost-effective marketing channel. And performance-based influencer marketing network Yoke Network wasted no time…
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May 12, 2020
Israel to Annex the United States Hebron

Israel to Annex the United States

As the Beatles once put it, “I read the news today, oh boy…” One might argue that the “oh boy” has been part and parcel of one’s morning media review ever since 9/11, but depending on one’s own inclinations, the daily content might well be considered particularly depressing over the…
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May 12, 2020