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From Manufactured Scandals to AI Misinformation
FAKE NEWS This section chronicles some of the most pressing examples of disinformation and fake news from the previous two weeks. I define fake news as information that appears to be real news but is baseless, inaccurate, misleading, or false. Fake news isn’t just a headline problem — it’s a cultural crisis. A tattooed Justin […]
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Trump’s Assault Upon the United Nations is at Odds with U.S. Public Opinion
If one examines Donald Trump’s approach to world affairs since his entry into American politics, it should come as no surprise that he has worked to undermine the United Nations. The United Nation is based on international cooperation, as well as on what the UN Charter calls “the equal rights … of nations large and […]
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Violence in Costa Rica and the Rush to Blame Nicaragua
Traditionally regarded as safe for visitors, Costa Rica has recently become Central America’s second most dangerous country, with 400 homicides recorded so far this year. The violence is attributed to an epidemic of drug-related crime, as the country has become a major staging post for narcotics smuggled to Europe. Costa Rica just detained a former […]
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Scary Thoughts from Selidov

The war in Ukraine will be over, and those who died will not be remembered as heroes or liberators. “Our own children will curse us,” said one of the participants in the Ukrainian army’s escape from the town of Selidov in the DNR. He witnessed extrajudicial executions and torture of civilians – old men, women, […]
