March 2018

Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach | News | The Guardian

Sat 17/03/2018

Whistleblower describes how firm linked to former Trump adviser Steve Bannon compiled user data to target American voters• How Cambridge Analytica’s algorithms turned ‘likes’ into a political tool Source: Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested […]

How China Interferes in Australia|CFR

Fri 16/03/2018

Australia is pushing back against a campaign of political interference orchestrated by China. Source: How China Interferes in Australia

Muslim Voters and the European Left | Foreign Affairs

Fri 09/03/2018

The refugee crisis has highlighted a strategic problem for Europe’s left: how to approach immigration and immigrant voters without driving away their working-class base. … The central problem for the European left is this: the […]

How fake news helped shape the Catalonia independence vote | The Washington Post

Fri 27/10/2017

Source: How fake news helped shape the Catalonia independence vote – The Washington Post

EU Referendum by Plantu

Wed 23/03/2016

Anne Applebaum|How U.S. presidents missed the Russia threat — until it was much, much too late

Tue 04/07/2017

How U.S. presidents missed the Russia threat — until it was much, much too late “I feel like we sort of choked.” That’s how one former administration official recently described President Barack Obama’s failure to [...]

Thomas L. Friedman: Out of Africa|The New York Times

Wed 20/04/2016

A farming village too parched to sustain crops is also losing its men, who leave in search of work to support their families. Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/opinion/out-of-africa.html Source: Out of Africa, Part II – The New York Times

Jaroslaw Kaczynski: Poland’s kingmaker — FT

Sun 28/02/2016

Cats are nice animals, but why do the scary baddies, the Blofelds of this world to love them? The rightwing ideologue quietly dictates policy to the president and prime minister, and is finally realising his nationalist [...]

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30th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union

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Human Rights day 2021

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How can we prevent future pandemics? – ELfR webinar on 07 December 2021

Human Trafficking by Geoff Corre

World TV day 2021

Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach | News | The Guardian

How China Interferes in Australia|CFR