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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
30 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants against Mohammed Deif, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity during the October 2023 Israel-Gaza conflict. Deif, the Hamas milit...
