Afghanistan reports of torture and killing contradict Taliban’s promises
Read More Afghanistan Afghanistan reports of torture and killing contradict Taliban’s promises Fighters tortured Hazara men to death, say witnesses, and relative of journalist killed and Hannah Ellis-Petersen Fri 20 Aug 2021 09.51 EDT Last modified on Fri 20 Aug 2021 09.53 EDT Evidence of Taliban killings, detentions and intimidation is emerging across Afghanistan ominously […]
Intel is selling off its sports group – founded and based in Israel
Read More Intel is giving up its sports group, Intel Sports. Haaretz has learned that the company is selling part of the group to the telecom giant Verizon and planning to shut down the rest. Intel Sports developed a three-dimensional, 360-degree viewing technology of football and basketball, through peripheral cameras in a volumetric video technology. […]
Screen Grab: A big sting in the small tale of Undercover’s confined setting
Read More Don’t look now, but the low countries are getting the world high — and not on weed. By some estimates, ecstasy and methamphetamine production in the Netherlands is worth about €18-billion a year — more than the revenue of Philips, the country’s giant technology conglomerate. And in Belgium’s rural Limburg province, bordering the […]
Review: ‘Culture and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa’: On the arts as a catalyst in the quest for true freedom
Read More The grand narrative of the South African liberation struggle is naturally problematic on many levels. It dabbles liberally in romanticism and political narcissism, the principal result of which has been debilitating navel-gazing, potted and ideologically lazy historical accounts, and, of course, outright fabrications. Culture and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa: From Colonialism […]
Review: Mahmood Mamdani on the ‘non-national’ state
Read More “Lost in 2021 fire.” So reads the bleak message on the University of Cape Town’s online library search engine when I try to access Mahmood Mamdani’s Citizen and Subject. I wanted to stretch my memory muscles by returning to Mamdani’s disruptive 1995 work on the crisis of postcolonial Africa. I needed Citizen and […]
Develop indices for measuring perceptions of corruption and anti-corruption efforts in the SADC region
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Prince Andrew’s reputation damaged for ever by Giuffre claims, experts say
Read More Prince Andrew Prince Andrew’s reputation damaged for ever by Giuffre claims, experts say Lawyers say Duke of York has lost in court of public opinion and is unlikely to engage with civil case in US Fri 20 Aug 2021 09.02 EDT Last modified on Fri 20 Aug 2021 09.03 EDT The Duke of […]
Biden will ditch D.C. yet again as Afghanistan crisis rages, en route Delaware Friday afternoon
Post Content President Biden Friday will again leave the White House for Wilmington, Delaware, as the military and State Department work to clean up the mess from the botched withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. Biden spent most of the last week in Wilmington and the Camp David presidential retreat as the crisis in Afghanistan […]
Elder forcefully denies brandishing weapon on ex-fiancee: ‘Politics of personal destruction’
Post Content Republican California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder forcefully denied a claim from his former fiancee that he brandished a gun during an argument the two had in 2015. “I have never brandished a gun at anyone. I grew up in South Central; I know exactly how destructive this type of behavior is. It’s not […]
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