Analysis
Tuesday, December 6th 2022 / Tuesday, December 6th 2022
December 6, 2022 Doris Strub Epstein Samidoun, the “ Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network,” is based in Vancouver and has chapters, and affiliates, with links worldwide. Since March 2021, Samidoun has registered as a not-for-profit organization in Canada. The organization advocates for “innocent” prisoners incarcerated in Israel’s jails. However, most of these prisoners are convicted […]
Tuesday, December 6th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Annie Lowrey The Atlantic, Nov. 17, 2022 “The irony is rich: A movement devoted to addressing poverty encouraged its adherents to become as wealthy as possible.” The spectacular collapse of the cryptocurrency trading firm FTX has raised a number of urgent questions. Why did the founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, get such fawning media coverage? Will his […]
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus New Yorker, Dec. 1, 2022 “If you’re personally affected by what’s happening, the community health team wants to be here for you. We’ve already heard from people who are feeling worried, angry, or sad.” One of the inevitable questions to have attended the abrupt undoing of the erstwhile billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried—the overnight collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange, […]
Monday, December 5th 2022 / Monday, December 5th 2022
Joan Swirsky The Post & Mail, Oct. 12, 2022 “With all this success, it is no wonder that the lunatics who are running the insane asylum that is America today have inflicted their warped vision of the world on a tremendous number of people, thanks largely to a corrupt leftist media who are literally paid […]
J. Peder Zane, Real Clear Politics, Dec. 1, 2022 “The attacks on Musk shed light on a darker mystery of American life: Why did the left attack Trump so savagely? Yes, Trump is a coarse, combative man who has the same relationship with truth as a used-car salesman. But that hardly makes him an outlier […]
Kathryn Joyce Salon, Nov. 21, 2022 “Republicans’ disappointed hopes in the midterms are fueling an intellectual civil war over the future of the American right.” On a Friday night in early October, in a downtrodden city in eastern Ohio, a speaker laid out a grim vision. At the height of 2020’s first, most terrifying […]
B. Duncan Moench Tablet, Nov. 29, 2022 “There’s nothing sacred about 50-state America.” All national declines ebb and flow. The street violence and chaos of the summer of 2020 marked the moment the curtain was pulled back, the country’s true psychic state revealed for a single season before the curtain fell once more — […]
Friday, December 2nd 2022 / Friday, December 2nd 2022
Jonathan Frenkel Israel 21C, Sept. 8, 2020 “Sadly, anti-Semitism has also thrived on TikTok” As is the case with social media, the tide ebbs and flows when the newest application reaches the hands of digital natives. Facebook made way for Snap and Instagram, and now Instagram is yielding to the latest social media giant out of […]
Adonis Hoffman The Hill, Oct. 18, 2022 “As the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Congress and the Justice Department continue to scrutinize Big Tech leaders including Facebook, Google and Amazon, they should not lose sight of the serious national security issues presented by TikTok, especially during election season.” People are easy to dupe. Give us something […]
Emily Baker-White Forbes, Nov. 28, 2022 “At this time, TikTok has failed to provide the requested information, documents, and communications,” he said in an email. TikTok spokesperson Maureen Shanahan confirmed that TikTok received Rep. Comer’s request and said the company plans to respond.” In fall 2021, members of ByteDance’s internal audit and risk control team prepared an urgent message […]
Sara Morrison VOX, Nov. 14, 2022 “The Chinese government has established clear pathways to empower itself to surveil individuals, to gather data from corporations, and through the 2017 [National Intelligence] law, to aggregate that data on government servers.” Here’s something you rarely hear a Democratic senator say: “Donald Trump was right.” But that’s what […]
Thursday, December 1st 2022 / Thursday, December 1st 2022
Chen Guangcheng WSJ, Nov. 25, 2022 “Unfortunately, U.S. leaders from both political parties have given the party the legitimacy it craves.” “What does the Chinese Communist Party fear most?” Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked me this question during a private meeting in Washington in January. Having been persecuted by Beijing for more than seven […]
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