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Health

Believing ‘Wall Street Journal’ Op-Eds Can Be Deadly

By Eric Alterman* – The Nation The newspaper’s own reporters are challenging the Trumpian opinion section In 1981, Ben Bagdikian, a veteran journalist and former dean of the University of California, Berkeley, journalism school, tried to explain why The Wall Street Journal…

Digital Age

A New Social Class: The Voluntary Workers of Social Networks

By Glauco Benigni* The hierarchical and exploitative structure of the feudal era seems to have reappeared today on the Internet of the digital era. Regardless of any constitution and workers’ statute, neither politics nor trade unions are intervening. It is accepted that…

Development

OtherNews-TheAnalysis partnership

Brand new partnership leads to podcast series on global issues. Lorena Barberia, Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of São Paulo.

Human Rights

How Hungary's Leading Outlet Became the Target of Political Control

By  Justin Spike –  !!444!!! InsightHungary!!!  (*) Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency V?ra Jourová sent a letter on July 7 to Index.hu, Hungary’s largest online news portal, expressing her solidarity with its staff…

Elections

Trump asked China’s Xi to help him win reelection, according to Bolton book

By  Josh Dawsey* – The Washington Post President Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020 U.S. election, telling Xi during a summit dinner last year that increased agricultural purchases by Beijing from American farmers would aid his electoral…

Digital Age

The Battle Over Free Speech Online Is a Volcano That’s Ready to Blow

By Marshall Auerback* –  Independent Media Institute Donald Trump threatened to close Twitter down a day after the social media giant marked his tweets with a fact-check warning label for the first time. The president followed this threat up with an executive order that…

authoritarianism

Twitter Places Warning on a Trump Tweet, Saying It Glorified Violence

By Raymond Zhong and Russell Goldman (*) – The New York Times The move by the social media platform is likely to spur more tension with the White House and prompt criticism from the president’s supporters. Twitter said early Friday that a tweet from President Trump implying that…

Commerce

Fumiyasu Akegawa, Chairman of DEVNET INTERNATIONAL

by DEVNET JAPAN Mr. Fumiyasu Akegawa In March 2013, I established Devnet Tokyo, now Devnet Japan, as the East Asian country’s sole branch of Devnet International, which, since 1995, enjoys a Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

Civil Society

Giulietto Chiesa has died, leaving an unbridgeable void

He was a faithful reader of Othernews, as well as a partner and supporter, and we would like to express our grief over his disappearance here. Giulietto Chiesa (*), the journalist who knew better than anyone else the final stages of the Soviet Union, has died suddenly.