KU 6.10.2018 Vasemmistoliiton presidenttiehdokas, europarlamentaarikko Merja Kyllönen haastoi alkuviikolla muut presidenttiehdokkaat tukemaan ydinasekieltosopimusta.
South China Morning Post:
That ban has not only become the latest flashpoint between the world’s two largest economies, it also exposed the soft underbelly of China’s hi-tech ambitions: a dependence on advanced US technology, especially semiconductors.
The US action against Hong Kong-listed ZTE has given fresh urgency to the Chinese government’s efforts to expand the domestic semiconductor industry, which would help the country’s hi-tech companies become less reliant on foreign-developed chips.
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rec. av Olle Svenning Jag söker en sammanfattning av det centrala budskapet i Johan Perssons och Martin Schibbyes enastående bok och finner den hos författaren Milan Kundera. Han skrev: ”Människans kamp mot makten är minnets kamp mot glömskan.”
08/30/18 Environment, Climate Change, Global Compact By: Dina Ionesco and Mariam Traore Chazalnoël
Geneva – Following the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants in 2016, United Nations Member States, for the first time in their history, committed to develop, negotiate and adopt a Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM).
The GCM is a non-binding cooperation framework that articulates a common set of commitments, on the basis of 23 objectives, for states to respond to the challenges and opportunities of contemporary international migration, and formulates provisions for implementation, follow up and review.
Doomsday Redux
The Most Dangerous Weapon Ever Rolls Off the Nuclear Assembly Line
By James Carroll
As TomDispatch regular and former Boston Globe columnist James Carroll points out today, the first new member of Trump's and Bolton's nuclear family, a “low-yield” nuke, was only recently born and given the less-than-apocalyptic name, W76-2. It looks as though, in nuclear terms, they are headed for a grim version of connubial bliss. To mix a metaphor or two in the fashion of our president, you might even think of that first progeny of theirs as a minute hand on a ticking clock heading for midnight. Tom
The new Ukrainian government is faced with reopening an inquiry into evidence of an organized mass killing in Kiev that Poroshenko stonewalled. Ivan Katchanovski investigates.
As Facebook and Twitter are purging alternative media outlets, a neoconservative operative at a US government-funded think tank says more censorship is on its way. Max Blumenthal and Jeb Sprague discuss how scaremongering over Russia and China is being exploited to silence dissent on social media
Some 400,000 people have been affected by cancer, disease and mental illnesses from the 9/11 attacks, according to data obtained exclusively by Newsweek. 1.30
reportage sept 2017
Med 1,2 miljoner böcker på 33 700 kvm och en mycket speciell arkitektur är det nya stadsbiblioteket i Tianjin Binhai rena drömmen för bokälskaren.