Cold War

On the eve of Apple announcing the iPhone 11, a report from China Labor Watch has accused the company — along with its manufacturing partner Foxconn — of profiting from worker exploitation to build the new phone. Investigators from China Labor Watch went u…

Lara Prescott can trace her interest in Dr. Zhivago back to the beginning the very beginning of her life. She's named after one of the main characters in Boris Pasternak's novel about a doomed love affair at the time of the Russian revolution. (Prescott's mot…

My easy like Sunday morning reads: How 8chan Was Born and Became the Worst Place on the Internet (Vice) see also So Whats His Kill Count?: The Toxic Online World Where Mass Shooters Thrive (Wall Street Journal)And Now, a Word From a Fanatic (NYT)The Hedge F…

US-China trade war: Supply chains affected in Thailand - Al Jazeera English

WASHINGTON (AP) White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow compared trade talks with China on Friday to the U.S. standoff with Russia during the Cold War. In other words, negotiations could continue for a long time. U.S. and Chinese officials have agreed to h…

Comment of the Day: Kaleberg: "'...the general effect of cold war extremism was to delay rather than hasten the great change that overtook the Soviet Union by the end of the 1980s.' - George Kennan. 'The suggestion that any Administration had the power to inf…

Stock your bunkers, America, were back in the Cold War. Or many Cold Wars, it seems. Pundits and politicians alike declaim that were locked in a new Cold War with China, that were in the throes of a cyber arms race with the rest of the world, and that Russias…

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia would produce missiles that were banned under a landmark Cold-War era nuclear pact that ended last month, but that Moscow would not deploy them unless the United States did …

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers.Sledgehammer Games, which made Call of Duty: World War II most recently and is said to be part of a big development shakeup at Activision, has opened an office in Melbourne, Australia. Developer Alayna Cole an…

For many viewers, watching Chernobyl crystallised parallels between widespread cultural panic around the nuclear threat and what were feeling now in the face of climate change. For veteran activists and therapists, the link has been clear for some time. The …