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Silk Road

Kazakhstan’s geostrategic bonus

Farmers sometimes herd their cattle along new sections of motorway between the southern Kazakh cities of Taraz and Shymkent. This is the western end of the new Silk Roads in Chinas One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative, a construction programme for highways, r…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Feudalism

Can Indonesia’s founding principles survive?

Going home: Muslims in Cirebon, Indonesia, on their way to their parents for the Eid holiday to mark the end of Ramadan Dasril Roszandi · Nurphoto · Getty Late on a humid afternoon, the Surabaya Street flea market by the canal was almost deserted, peaceful …

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

Slovakia, where central Europe really begins

Alena Kalejova with her baby Daniela in the eastern village of Ostrovany Old Bratislava has been restored in the last two decades, and tourists crowd its narrow streets, but it is still scarred by the legacy of communist Czechoslovakia, with boxy housing and…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Hrant Dink

Equilibrium wobbles

Last March the German chancellor Angela Merkel negotiated a controversial EU agreement with Turkey intended to deter migrants from trying to cross the Aegean by boat, often relying on people smugglers. Under a scheme that was complex, ingenious or Machiavelli…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Alibaba

Shadier side to Trudeau’s sunny ways

Canadas prime minister Justin Trudeau at a press conference in Toronto in January 2016 Cole Burston / Bloomberg / Getty The media love Canadas prime minister, Justin Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC), who won the federal election in Octob…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Barack Obama

Cesar Sayoc, Florida Man Who Mailed Bombs To Democrats and Media, Gets 20 Years

Cesar Sayoc was sentenced to 20 years in prison for mailing 16 inoperative pipe bombs to public figures seen as critical of President Trump in 2018. Broward County Sheriff's Office via AP Cesar Sayoc, the Florida bodybuilder and nightclub bouncer who mailed…

bubmagAugust 5, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

EU officials: No basis for UK Brexit talks – BBC News

Image copyrightEPA EU officials have said there is currently no basis for "meaningful discussions" with the UK over Brexit. One negotiator said: "We are back where we were three years ago." Diplomats from the other 27 EU member states were told on Monday …

bubmagAugust 5, 2019

Astroturfing

UK Lobbyist’s Long-Running Astroturf Efforts Shows Facebook Will Never Be Able To Stop Fake News, Ban All Conservatives

For all the talk about social media platforms and their supposed anti-conservative bias, it seems like plenty of conservatives are doing just fine. Once you eliminate a short list of fringe grifters and Nazi fans, you're left with plenty of big name conservat…

bubmagAugust 5, 2019

Climate Change

36 photos show how extreme weather and natural disasters have gotten more intense over the years

bubmagAugust 5, 2019

Astroturfing

UK Lobbyist’s Long-Running Astroturf Efforts Shows Facebook Will Never Be Able To Stop Fake News, Ban All Conservatives

from the Facebook-shows-users-the-radar,-provides-low-altitude-flying-tools dept For all the talk about social media platforms and their supposed anti-conservative bias, it seems like plenty of conservatives are doing just fine. Once you eliminate a short li…

bubmagAugust 5, 2019

Kazakhstan’s geostrategic bonus

Can Indonesia’s founding principles survive?

Slovakia, where central Europe really begins

Equilibrium wobbles

Shadier side to Trudeau’s sunny ways

Cesar Sayoc, Florida Man Who Mailed Bombs To Democrats and Media, Gets 20 Years

EU officials: No basis for UK Brexit talks – BBC News

UK Lobbyist’s Long-Running Astroturf Efforts Shows Facebook Will Never Be Able To Stop Fake News, Ban All Conservatives

36 photos show how extreme weather and natural disasters have gotten more intense over the years

UK Lobbyist’s Long-Running Astroturf Efforts Shows Facebook Will Never Be Able To Stop Fake News, Ban All Conservatives

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