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Julia Klöckner on politics and social media: “The Bundestag is not a stage for the next TikTok reel”
Julia Klöckner on politics and social media: “The Bundestag is not a stage for the next TikTok reel”

The plenum is the showcase of the parliamentary work and not an influencer agency or click economy. Long-term acceptance does not come from exaggeration and loudness, but from reliability and seriousness, according to the President of the Bundestag, Klöckner.

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From Istanbul With Love
From Istanbul With Love

Kaya Genç is a Turkish novelist and essayist. He first visited the U.S. in January 2017 and witnessed the New York City's protests against Trump's Muslim-ban. Trumpism is an operating manual for 21st century populist authoritarianism. Right-wing populists operate like an international alliance.

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Nicaragua strips lawyers of certification in latest crackdown on dissent
Nicaragua strips lawyers of certification in latest crackdown on dissent

Nicaragua's government has stripped lawyers of their licences to practise law. The government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has been accused of human rights abuses against critics. Since 2018, the government has shut down more than 5,000 nongovernmental organisations, largely religious groups, local rotary clubs and scouting organisations.

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Four Russia myths that Europe could pay dearly for
Four Russia myths that Europe could pay dearly for

Russia has been waging a "cognitive war" against the West for decades. Ukraine is now refuting the myths about Moscow's strength. Europe must internalize these lessons before old assumptions dominate security policy. Crimea, once portrayed as untouchable, has become a battleground that increasingly dominates Ukraine.

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Southeast Asia’s scammers’ new disguise: your leader’s face
Southeast Asia’s scammers’ new disguise: your leader’s face

Southeast Asia's scam industry has found a powerful new weapon: borrowed faces. Criminals are cloning the region's most trusted leaders using generative AI, wrapping fraud in the unimpeachable authority of a president’s voice or a prime minister's visage and cashing in on the thing no security system can patch: human trust.

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Colombia’s Petro accuses Israeli cyberfirm BlackCore of election interference
Colombia’s Petro accuses Israeli cyberfirm BlackCore of election interference

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has accused Israeli cyber-intelligence company BlackCore of a massive digital disinformation campaign to manipulate the outcome of the recent presidential elections. Abelardo de la Espriella won the June 21 runoff election by a margin of less than 1% over the ruling party’s candidate, Ivan Cepeda. Petro has called on his supporters to launch a nationwide mobilization on July 20.

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Checks and Balance newsletter: The weirdness of American socialism
Checks and Balance newsletter: The weirdness of American socialism

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CIA Officers Can Sense the Threat Within
CIA Officers Can Sense the Threat Within

Trump administration officials risk corrupting the system that's supposed to remain apolitical and grounded in facts, according to a recent survey of CIA analysts. Since Donald Trump returned to office, the number of CIA employees who are concerned that the objectivity of analysis is being undermined by political influence has gone up.

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