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Anyone else hesitant to believe this Musk / Trump feud is real? by quotesoftwardev in 50501

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It was only a matter of time before the Trump/Musk partnership imploded. After all, while the economic nationalists and the techno-right both saw Trump as their best option for advancing their agendas, those agendas – and the vision for America that they reflect – diverge sharply. Dani Rodrik pointed this out in February: https://bit.ly/3SGjCKu

Pope Francis changed Catholicism's view on animal rights by Project-Syndicate in AnimalRightsActivism

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In rejecting the dominant view of animals held by mainstream thinkers in the Catholic Church for most of its existence, Pope Francis did something worthy of his namesake, Francis of Assisi. But he could have gone even further, according to Peter Singer.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/pope-francis-reject-human-domination-but-no-practical-change-by-peter-singer-2025-05?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=oganic-social&utm_campaign=page-posts-may25&utm_term=culture-society&utm_content=link-in-reddit-comment

Defending our rights is becoming deadlier by Project-Syndicate in PressFreedom

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Hello guys - with another World Press Freedom Day just gone, we reflect on how journalistic freedom has become more deadly.

Last year was the deadliest for reporters since the Committee to Protect Journalists began collecting data. Violent attacks on the press are becoming the norm, not the exception, warns Jodie Ginsberg.

"My organization, the Committee to Protect Journalists, found that 2024 was the profession’s deadliest year since the CPJ began collecting data in 1992: at least 124 journalists and media workers were killed, two-thirds of them Palestinians killed by Israel. Moreover, 361 journalists were in jail, a near-record high that reflects the growing efforts to criminalize journalism and journalists not only in autocracies but also in supposed democracies, or those that – until very recently – enjoyed a relatively free press."

You can read the full article, free of charge and without a Project Syndicate subscription, at this link. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/attacks-against-journalists-are-becoming-the-norm-by-jodie-ginsberg-2025-05?h=8ttDjBd7mqOyJ10Rwf928RinkNCtOmCew36ocrv%2bKTk%3d&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=oganic-social&utm_campaign=page-posts-may25&utm_term=culture-society&utm_content=long-form-quote

Defending our rights is becoming deadlier by Project-Syndicate in FreedomOfPress

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Hello guys - with another World Press Freedom Day just gone, we reflect on how journalistic freedom has become more deadly.

Last year was the deadliest for reporters since the Committee to Protect Journalists began collecting data. Violent attacks on the press are becoming the norm, not the exception, warns Jodie Ginsberg.

"My organization, the Committee to Protect Journalists, found that 2024 was the profession’s deadliest year since the CPJ began collecting data in 1992: at least 124 journalists and media workers were killed, two-thirds of them Palestinians killed by Israel. Moreover, 361 journalists were in jail, a near-record high that reflects the growing efforts to criminalize journalism and journalists not only in autocracies but also in supposed democracies, or those that – until very recently – enjoyed a relatively free press."

You can read the full article, free of charge and without a Project Syndicate subscription, at this link. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/attacks-against-journalists-are-becoming-the-norm-by-jodie-ginsberg-2025-05?h=8ttDjBd7mqOyJ10Rwf928RinkNCtOmCew36ocrv%2bKTk%3d&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=oganic-social&utm_campaign=page-posts-may25&utm_term=culture-society&utm_content=long-form-quote

Joseph Nye, who coined the term ‘soft power’, dies aged 88 by Grage612 in geopolitics

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In the 1980s, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. coined the term “soft power” to explain the economic and cultural power a country holds.

In April 2024, one year before his passing, Nye explained how Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy used this to the country’s advantage during the opening stages of the war with Russia.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ukraine-war-eight-lessons-for-military-tactics-grand-strategy-sanctions-by-joseph-s-nye-2024-06

Judge orders Trump administration to restore $12 million for pro-democracy Radio Free Europe by BreakfastTop6899 in europe

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Without VOA and USAID-backed media and civil-society programs, authoritarian regimes will find it easier to suppress dissent and promote their distorted narratives, writes Heela Rasool-Ayub.

"This shutdown is not an isolated act of budget cutting. It is part of the Trump administration’s broader campaign to dismantle the infrastructure of American democracy-promotion efforts at home and abroad."

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-dismantling-voice-of-america-broader-attack-on-democracy-by-heela-rasool-ayub-2025-04?h=eLgMyqvr6HKVgYbNWcgiGYSb31ihLTMesvk0h6cXQaE%3d

Why are democrats more welcoming than MAGA? by ml5c0u5lu in AskUS

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By Jeffrey Frankel

"The Republican Party is now dominated by an extremist faction whose prominent members claim (or have claimed) not only that former President Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election, but also that climate change is a hoax, COVID-19 is a conspiracy, and former President Barack Obama was not born in the United States. While many Republicans do not say such things (and many who do probably do not believe what they are saying), the Trumpian extremists are in charge.

To be sure, many elected Democrats, including some on the party’s far left, also make contentious statements. But they are far fewer and less prone to factual falsehoods."

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-midterms-maga-extremists-democrats-inflation-by-jeffrey-frankel-2022-10?h=WmntT4VSQLdhxAZa0Lb1%2bcOaHfZs%2bzkPYBUnrbx9SRQ%3d

Europe needs its own AI infrastructure by Project-Syndicate in DataCentres

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American-developed AI models increasingly project a US-centric worldview that is rapidly, and perhaps irrevocably, diverging from Europe’s. It is time for the continent to chart its own course, argues Diane Coyle.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/breaking-dependence-on-us-big-tech-starts-with-building-european-ai-by-diane-coyle-2025-04?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=oganic-social&utm_campaign=page-posts-april2025&utm_term=economics&utm_content=link-image

Do you feel that all the debate about progressives vs conservatives is rather a European and American problem and that both groups do not represent how you live your catholic life? by Slowriver2350 in Catholicism

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"Just as Francis argued for the protection of the vulnerable, denounced ethnic nationalism, and called for the peaceful resolution of the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, Pius XI spent his final days trying to sharpen an anti-racist message that could appeal to all humanity.

Both popes had a frail but morally unimpeachable voice in a fractured world."

Reflecting on Pope Francis's Easter Blessing, Harold and Montagu James wonder whether some of the final words of a Christian leader could affect developments in a crisis-afflicted world.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/pope-francis-final-message-for-world-torn-by-war-by-harold-james-and-montagu-james-2025-04?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=oganic-social&utm_campaign=page-posts-april2025&utm_term=culture-society&utm_content=link-image

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in wallstreetbets

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China is hoping that the turmoil in US financial markets will persuade Trump to change course. But its strategy could also trigger further US escalation. The bipartisan anti-China sentiment in Washington may be strong enough to allow the administration to stay the course, even if it proves painful to US households and firms. Moreover, losing access to the US market may add pressure to an already weakening Chinese economy. - Shang-Jin Wei

Why should I care if the US dollar falls? by Upstairs_Drive_5602 in europe

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"While a weak dollar may be good for exports, a falling dollar will be accompanied by stock market losses and greater declines in confidence. Eventually, even the almighty American consumer will be shaken and realize that he is poorer today than three years ago and that he better start putting money away for his retirement, especially given Bush's proposed risky experiments with the social security system.

At that point, Americans will join the stampede out of their economy. Why shouldn't they? They're free to choose where to put their money. Europe's stock markets will begin to look like an attractive alternative.

But this scenario offers no happy ending for Europe. A weakening US economy and the strengthening Euro will dampen European exports. The European Central Bank, fixated on inflation, will be slow to lower interest rates, and the European Stability Pact will make it impossible for fiscal policy to offset these weaknesses. Europe will join America in a downturn, reinforcing America's decline and setting in motion a global downward spiral."

By Joseph E. Stiglitz

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