Economy / Finance

The Coup in Myanmar: Why Now?

By  Phillip Orchard – Geopolitical Futures There are huge risks to abandoning the country’s previous political arrangement. For Myanmar, a country where the military brass has called the shots for most of its modern history, the putsch shouldn’t have come as much of a…

Fake News

Lawsuits Take the Lead in Fight Against Disinformation

Grynbaum – The New York Times Defamation cases have made waves across an uneasy right-wing media landscape, from Fox to Newsmax. In just a few weeks, lawsuits and legal threats from a pair of obscure election technology companies have achieved what years of advertising boycotts…

DEVNET JAPAN

The True Value of the Changing "TITP"

The ideal way of international exchange of human resources indicated by COVID-19 disaster and theTITP. by DEVNET Japan In this article, I will discuss the purpose of japan’s TITP, its divergence, and current issues.The problem of international exchange of “human resources” has…

Elections

Executions of prisoners in the US as an electoral argument

By Navi Pillay, Federico Mayor, Bill Richardson, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Asunta Vivó Cavaller (*) The wave of executions in the United States, carried out at the federal level, of thirteen persons in the last six months of the Trump administration, is a tragic record…

Democracy

Democracy Index 2020: In sickness and in health?

A REPORT BY THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT Democracy was dealt a major blow in 2020. Almost 70% of countries covered by The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index recorded a decline in their overall score, as country after country locked down to protect lives from a…

Digital Age

'It let white supremacists organize': the toxic legacy of Facebook's Groups

By Kari Paul* – The Guardian Facebook has said it will no longer algorithmically recommend political groups to users, but experts warn that isn’t enough Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook CEO, announced last week the platform will no longer algorithmically recommend political groups…