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Is Defending Taiwan Worth the Risk?

Taiwan

2021-10-08 / www.foreignpolicy.com

Emma Ashford and Dr. Matthew Kroenig discuss Chinese incursions and U.S. training of Taiwanese forces and what could raise the specter of war. Could the U.S.A handle this conflict? What is the U.S.A position towards ...

Ethiopia used its flagship commercial airline to transport weapons during war in Tigray

Smuggling

2021-10-08 / www.cnn.com

Ethiopia's government has used the country's flagship commercial airline to shuttle weapons to and from neighboring Eritrea during the civil war in Ethiopia's Tigray region.
Cargo documents and manifests seen by CNN, as well as eyewitness accounts and photographic ...

Africa Is Changing—and U.S. Strategy Is Not Keeping Up

strategy

2021-10-08 / www.foreignaffairs.com

Washington Needs to Rethink Its Approach to the Continent.

Africa has never been a top priority for the United States. Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama all launched impactful initiatives there—helping advance trade, health, and energy, among other ...

China issues dire warning, says World War III can jump off “anytime” over conflict involving Taiwan

Taiwan

2021-10-07 / www.newstarget.com

When Donald Trump was in the White House, he kept a close tab on the Chinese government, forcing Beijing to come to the negotiating table regarding trade and other issues while blocking the Communist regime off from sensitive American technology. ...

A Secret CIA Gate at Kabul Airport Became an Escape Path for Afghans

Afghanistan

2021-10-06 / www.wsj.com

Nicknamed Glory Gate, the back entrance was hidden from the Taliban and used to evacuate embassy staff and others.

WASHINGTON—While thousands of people crowded outside the main gates of the Kabul airport seeking to escape Afghanistan in August, the Central Intelligence ...

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Human Rights & Accountability

Le dessous des ONG, une vérité cachée

politics

2020-06-28 / www.agoravox.fr

AGORA VOX publie le 13 octobre 2017 un article intitule « Qui est derrière Amnesty International ? ». le site se demande si la soi-disant organisation de défense des droits de l’Homme, avec un C.A dépassant €278,000,000 en 2015, est vraiment une entité indépendante. A ...

France Weighs Its Love of Liberty in Fight Against Coronavirus

Pandemic

2020-04-17 / www.nytimes.com

The French are cautiously considering digital tracking, which has proved effective in Asia. But can a country that so prizes personal freedom and privacy ever accept it?

As France sought clues last month on how to tame the coronavirus, experts looked ...

Airbus reaches deal to settle corruption probes

Industry

2020-01-28 / www.ft.com

Airbus has agreed to settle a bribery and corruption probe with regulators in the UK, France and the US, in a move that could see the aerospace group pay billions of dollars in penalties.
Airbus said it has reached an ...

Crypto scam offers modern twist on classic pyramid fraud

cybercrime

2019-12-19 / www.ft.com

 Bulgarian entrepreneur accused of helping to trick millions of investors.

It was billed as an exciting new cryptocurrency that would one day become more popular than bitcoin and turn myriad small investors into multimillionaires. But OneCoin, launched by a Bulgarian entrepreneur ...

Algorithms drive online discrimination, academic warns

Social Media

2019-12-12 / www.ft.com

 

 

Sandra Wachter says AI uses sensitive personal traits to target or exclude people in ads.

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Innovation & Technology

It's Called Artificial Intelligence—but What Is Intelligence?

Artificial Intelligence

2020-05-19 / www.wired.com

Elizabeth Spelke, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard, has spent her career testing the world’s most sophisticated learning system—the mind of a baby.

 

Gurgling infants might seem like no match ...

Alabama High School Student Names NASA's Mars Helicopter

Aerospace

2020-04-29 / www.nasa.gov

Destined to become the first aircraft to attempt powered flight on another planet, NASA's Mars Helicopter officially has received a new name: Ingenuity.
Vaneeza Rupani, a junior at Tuscaloosa County ...

Study analyzes contamination in drug manufacturing plants

Medical Research

2020-04-27 / www.mit.edu

Report offers guidelines to help prevent viruses from tainting biopharmaceutical drugs.

Over the past few decades, there have been a handful of incidents in which manufacturing processes for making protein drugs became contaminated with viruses at manufacturing plants. These were all ...

3 Ways Big Data and Machine Learning Revolutionize Drug Discovery

Pharmaceutics

2020-03-16 / www.biopharmatrend.com

The Internet media is trending now with numerous mentions of “big data”, “machine learning” and “artificial intelligence” all together destined to revolutionize pharmaceutical and biotech industries and the way drugs are discovered. These new technologies are believed to ...

Boris Johnson feels increasing heat over UK 5G role for Huawei

National Security

2020-01-28 / www.ft.com

Lawmakers in Washington and London have ratcheted up the pressure on Boris Johnson to stop China's Huawei from supplying kit for the UK's fifth-generation mobile phone network.
But the prime minister's national security council is on Tuesday expected to grant ...

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Terrorism

Australian far-right terrorism investigations have increased by 750 per cent in 18 months

extremism

2021-10-08 / www.sbs.com.au


The threat of nationalist and racist violent extremism is escalating rapidly, according to Australia's domestic security and investigative services.
In the past 18 months, the Australian Federal Police’s Joint Counter Terrorism Team's (JCTT) caseload covering the area has risen ...

Dark ops: Isis, the far-right and the gamification of terror

gamified terrorism

2020-02-14 / www.ft.com

Adding game-playing elements to situations that are not games - a concept called gamification - is a wonderful thing. Getting lost in an imagined world where reality isn't more than a simulation, a thought experiment, can be oddly comforting.
But ...

Government Continues Turning a Blind Eye to Radical Islamist Grant Recipients

USA

2020-01-22 / www.investigativeproject.org

The federal government knows a lot of troubling things about two prominent American Islamist organizations. Curiously, the same federal government continues to seek out partnerships with those same radical organizations and even awards them taxpayer-funded grant money.
Last summer, the ...

Islamic State Has a Major Opportunity in Libya

Libya

2020-01-20 / www.investigativeproject.org

"Several thousand ISIS fighters have left Idlib in Syria through the northern border and have ended up in Libya," Jordan's King Abdullah recently warned. "That is something that we in the region but also our ...

Is ISIS gaining ‘serious’ ground in Afghanistan? Russia says yes. The US says no.

Foreign Fighters

2018-03-27 / www.militarytimes.com

Over the last two months, Afghan security forces and U.S. targeting has eliminated more than 140 ISIS-Khorasan fighters. And while the pressure on ISIS-K coincides with pressure to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table with the Afghan government, officials ...

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