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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...

Elon Musk's "free speech for my right-wing bros" politics

5 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR An article by Hugo Bueno for The Unpopulist critiques Elon Musk’s inconsistent commitment to free speech, focusing on his handling of censorship orders in Brazil. Musk resisted Brazilian Justice Alexandre de Moraes’ orders to suspend accounts s...

The Cost of Europe’s Divisions in the Middle East,

5 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR The report The Cost of Europe’s Divisions in the Middle East by ECDPM critiques the EU’s inconsistent approach to international humanitarian law during recent Middle Eastern conflicts. While the EU condemned Hamas and Russia’s war crimes, its am...

Human security is not about gratitude but a necessity

4 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR Rebecca Buxton and Matthew J. Gibney argue that refugees are not obligated to be grateful to countries offering them asylum. They critique the expectation of refugee gratitude, highlighting that asylum is often a legal obligation or compensator...

Bruh team burns another 1.5M

4 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments F.Khan

That's right over 1.5M of the total supply has been sent to the dead wallet! https://polygonscan.com/tx/0xd2e5a1b967af689e7d365a4143ed1cb397c7c301a86d6d43e874c3bbbf34fca4     The The News Bruh is a polygon project every day the team releases a daily...

There is no "liberal Trump"

3 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR Berny Belvedere critiques liberal reactions to Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory, warning against overcorrecting by mimicking populist tactics or compromising core liberal values. He attributes Trump’s win to global anti-incumbency trends an...

How Serious Biden’s Pardon is and How Long He Lied to the US Population

3 Dec 2024 3 minute read 11 comments Cje95

As soon as the pardoning of his son Hunter broke people have been up in arms over President Biden and rightfully so. However, it gets worse and worse the more that comes out about it and what is wild is the first breakers of this news ended up being...

When Finnish men were seen as "foreigner problem" in Sweden

2 Dec 2024 2 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic

  In September, Maria Malmer Stenergard, the former migration minister in Sweden and now the current external affairs minister, made several controversial and, more or less, bigoted statements about immigration and immigrants. She said, among other t...

Time for Regrowth - Rethinking the Growth vs. Degrowth Debate

2 Dec 2024 2 minute read 4 comments Vladan Lausevic

  In recent years, the conversation around climate change and sustainability has increasingly revolved around the dichotomy of "growth vs. degrowth." While often portrayed as an economic or ideological standoff, this debate transcends traditional Lef...