Politics
Ideological polarization, propaganda, and the evolution of political thought—this page covers the trends and news that will influence the future of politics.
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https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/back-power-malaysias-prime-minister-moves-away-china
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Stratfor
Fifteen years after leaving office, Mahathir Mohamad is back to serve another term as Malaysian prime minister with much the same agenda as before. But this time, charting a neutral foreign policy will mean taking a step back from Beijing.
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https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2018/12/new-paper-outlines-science-imperiled-post-truth-politics/
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Alliance for Science
A new paper published in the top-level journal PNAS describes the challenges posed to scientific knowledge by the proliferation of online misinformation on issues like climate change, vaccines and genetically modified crops. It describes how “profound structural shifts in the media environment” have “enabled unscrupulous actors with ulterior motives increasingly to circulate fake news, misin
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/12/18/this-ai-start-up-constantly-monitors-kids-to-stop-the-next-school-shootingand-it-just-scored-16-million-funding/#35d63f26d8ca
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Forbes
Artificial intelligence from Securly claims it can uncover self-harming and cyberbullying. And it's hoping to create software that can preempt the next school shooting to stop it before it occurs.
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https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/energy/power/india-adds-7-3-gw-solar-energy-capacity-in-2019-report/articleshow/75449689.cms
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The Economic Times
The report covers market share and shipment rankings across the Indian solar supply chain in 2019. During the calendar year (CY) 2019, India installed 7.3 GW of solar power across the country, consolidating its position as the third-largest solar market in the world, it said.
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Countries are collaborating to accelerate discoveries in science and technology, igniting a geopolitical race to superiority.
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https://www.economist.com/international/2020/03/19/how-covid-19-is-interrupting-childrens-education
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The Economist
Almost a billion children have seen their schools close
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Researchers worldwide call to eliminate fossil fuel use and subsidies.
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https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/eu-and-uk-reach-new-brexit-deal-whats-next-johnson-irish-border
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Stratfor
London and Brussels have finally hammered out a deal to avoid a no-deal Brexit. Now, however, comes the hard part: getting the House of Commons to sign on.
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https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/poland-warsaw-tries-win-washington-approval-us-base-polish-soil
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Stratfor
Poland is looking to bolster its close relationship with the White House by persuading the United States to build a military base on its soil, but challenges from both east and west might scuttle its best-laid plans.
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https://www.taxjustice.net/2014/01/17/price-offshore-revisited/
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Tax Justice Network
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https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials-print/
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Huffington Post
Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkbOtnXc2eU
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Timcast
Anti-Trump Smear BACKFIRES On New York Times, Left AND Right Slam Newspaper. Reporters for the elite newspaper are outraged after discovering that conservati...
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http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2115858/key-points-xis-speech-chinas-communist-party-congress
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South China Morning Post
7 things you need to know about Xi Jinping’s vision of a ‘new era’ for China
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/09/28/artificial-intelligence-3/?noredirect=on
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The Washington Post
In the digital age, the AI race will decide the fate of nations.
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https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/meaning-geography-changing-not-disappearing
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Stratfor
Like so many of Stratfor's contributors, I spend a lot of time thinking about geography. In the past, I have even suggested that geography has been the main force determining the different fates of each part of the planet for the past 20,000 years. But Is the meaning of geography changing so much that it has ceased to mean anything at all?
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Flooding social media with disinformation has resulted in people believing in conspiracies and falsehoods.
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https://www.intheblack.com/articles/2020/08/17/why-climate-change-unlike-other-financial-risk
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In the Black
The COVID-19 epidemic is the most obvious and pressing example of a ‘black swan’ event. Here are some ways to deal with a green swan like climate change.
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https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/russias-pivot-asia-economic-attraction-lags-behind-hard-power-far-east-eef-putin-china-india
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Stratfor
It's geopolitics, not business opportunities, that makes Asian leaders seek meetings with Vladimir Putin.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/03/06/the-dark-roots-of-aipac-americas-pro-israel-lobby/?outputType=amp&noredirect=on
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The Washington Post
The group was formed to spin positive PR after Israeli atrocities.
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The ongoing space race between the United States and China is on for space supremacy.
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https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/08/31/basic-income-education-impact_a_23514038/
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Huffington Post
Will giving people unconditional cash convince them to quit school? Research suggests exactly the opposite.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/business/economy/us-government-debt-interest.html
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The New York Times
Tax cuts, spending increases and higher interest rates could make it harder to respond to future recessions and deal with other needs.