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U.S. aid is insufficient for a Ukrainian offensive - and could arrive too late to stop Russia's…Ukraine will require additional aid should it hope to conduct offensive operations, an unlikely prospect considering the resistance of Congressional Republicans. - The New Voice of Ukraine
China Orders Apple to Remove Popular Messaging Apps: WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram among apps cut from iPhone app store to comply with censorship demand. - FT
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed legislation Saturday that would ban TikTok in the United States if the popular social media platform’s China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake within a year, but don’t expect the app to go away anytime soon. - AP
European court upholds broadcasting ban on Russia’s RT
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"Total military spending is at an all time high ... and for the first time since 2009, we saw spending increase across all five geographical regions," Nan Tian, a senior researcher at SIPRI, told AFP. - France 24
Tracking the malignant racism of B’nai Brith Canada: B’nai Brith Canada claims to be "dedicated to eradicating racism,” but the organization has been a leading instigator of Islamophobic hate for the last 20 years.
Now, eligible Indians can get long term Schengen visas as EU adopts 'more favourable' rule for the country
As wages stagnate, wealth inequality intensifies, debt suffocates, and social spending perpetually decreases, young people are increasingly rejecting overidentification with work. I don’t dream of labor, as the social media hashtag goes. The tradwife speaks, however obliquely and however disingenuously, to this disenchantment through content presented as a solution to the problem of work. Their solution is the reinstatement of the natural laws of gender which allow women to return to their rightful job as wife and mother and men to resume their rightful place in a workforce that recognises masculine authority. The tradwife’s critique of wage labor is intended not as a critique of work per se but a critique of feminism’s disruption of work as a mechanism of division and as a structure of family. To this end, tradwife media understands the allure of the end of alienated labor while promising men, implicitly, a prosperous future in which they do not compete with women for work. Economic crisis appears as a symptom of the social crisis of gender. - Verso Books
Located in a valley on the Greek island of Samos, a few kilometres from the town of Vathy, sits a facility that the European Union has touted as a model for future refugee camps. Opened in September 2021, it is the first Closed Controlled Access Center (CCAC) for asylum seekers. Funded by the EU at a cost of 43 million euros, the camp is surrounded by multiple barbed-wire fences and equipped with a security system that includes CCTV cameras, magnetic gates and X-ray technology. Entry and exit are controlled and a curfew is imposed at night. - 'It's a monster, this camp': NGOs say new model of refugee centre on Greek island is inhumane (don’t join us)
Struggling Pharmaceutical giant Bayer is getting rid of bosses and asking nearly 100,000 workers to ‘self-organize’ to save $2.15 billion: The company has accumulated around €34.5 billion ($37.5 billion) in debt, not much less than the company’s €47.6 billion ($51.7 billion) in sales last year. To top that off, since its acquisition of Monsanto in 2018, Bayer has been fighting thousands of claims that its Roundup weed killer causes cancer
Future of Music?: The buzziest indie album of the moment is a folder of files you can only get from a janky Geocities website. Drake is dropping new music on something called Krakenfiles.com. Chris Black wonders if the post-streaming era will look like Web 1.0.