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"All eyes on Syria" - post-Assad Syria needs democracy and civility

13 Dec 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR Yezid Sayigh's "Anatomy of a Military Fall" from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Annie Slemrod's "Syria Faces Huge Humanitarian Challenges as It Begins Post-Assad Era" from The New Humanitarian examine the fall of Bashar al-A...

Trump's crony-crypto-capitalism

11 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR Frank Vogl’s article, The Trump Era of Crony Capitalism, published in The Globalist, explores the rise of crony capitalism under Donald Trump’s presidency, focusing on the intersection of cryptocurrency and political power. Vogl highlights how...

Killings, starvation and suffering in Gaza

11 Dec 2024 1 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR A report by The New Humanitarian titled "Targeted aid killings: How Israel starved a population and sowed chaos in northern Gaza" examines the severe impact of Israeli military actions on humanitarian operations in Gaza. The investigation highl...

"They Will Listen if Other Countries Engage Them"

10 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR William Plowright's article, I interviewed Syria's militias at the Start of the War – They Will Listen if Other Countries Engage Them, published in The Conversation, examines the role of armed groups like Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in post-Assa...

Trump Tariffs Tango

10 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR Steve Chapman's article Tariffs Are Trump's Tool to Consolidate His Hold on Power, published in The UnPopulist, critiques Donald Trump's tariff policies as economically harmful and politically manipulative. Chapman argues that Trump uses tariff...

Quick Dive into South Korean History & Why The Presidents Move Opened Old Wounds

10 Dec 2024 5 minute read 1 comment Cje95

Within just a few hours we were hit by a truck load of shocking news of out South Korea. First, the news broke that South Korea’s President declared martial law, then we heard Parliament vote to undo martial law, then the South Korean military said t...

Summer houses, Germans and Astrid Lindgren - Thirty Years of Sweden in the EU

8 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

    In a recent reflection on Sweden's 30-year EU membership, Andreas Johansson Heinö, one of Sweden's leading liberal opinion makers and a member of the market-liberal think tank Timbro, highlights the significance of the 1994 referendum. Heinö desc...

Israel is acting more and more as a genocidal state

8 Dec 2024 1 minute read 1 comment Vladan Lausevic

TLDR Kaushik Jayaram and Melissa Munro's article "Genocide in Gaza: Revenge, Retribution, or a Means to an End?" published in The India Forum, critically examines the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza, arguing that Israel's actions resemble a slo...

Israel is still breaking the international humanitarian law

7 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR Refugees International’s report Scorecard: Israel Fails to Comply with U.S. Humanitarian Access Demands in Gaza critiques Israel’s response to U.S. humanitarian demands during the Gaza crisis. The report, authored by a team of experts at Refuge...

Warning for CBDCs

7 Dec 2024 1 minute read 3 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR Sweden-based economist Thomas Marmefelt critiques the potential risks of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). While CBDCs aim to counter the dominance of private cryptocurrencies, the article highlights their potential to centralize financi...