Building trust in media

Portland Police distribute T-Shirts after Chocking Lloyd “Tony” Stevenson

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Revolt.tv describes some of Portland’s history:

In 1985, Portland Police choked Lloyd “Tony” Stevenson to death after mistaking him for a suspect. Following Stevenson’s death and the subsequent banning of “sleeper” holds, on the day of his funeral, Portland Police Association members distributed t-shirts emblazoned with the slogan “Don’t Choke ‘Em, Smoke ‘Em’’ asserting that officers should use their firearms instead of their hands to execute Black Portlanders.

Ex Military Advisor to Angela Merkel on Nord Stream bombinb

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Dr Erich Vad, a military advisor to German Chancellor Angela Merkel commented (about the Nord Stream bombing)
in the future we cannot simply accept an attack like the one on February 24th 2022 that is absolutely correct something must happen and Military Support is also appropriate but it must be measured and prudent it must not be escalatory and must not directly lead to a third world war 

The Ripple Effects of a Space Skirmish

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If a conflict breaks out between countries with weapons in orbit, it could threaten space access for everyone.

For example, the thousands of everyday satellites that already circle low-Earth orbit, below an altitude of 1,200 miles, could potentially suffer collateral damage. More than half of those satellites are from the U.S.; many of the rest are from China and Russia. They provide key services like internet access, GPS signals, long-distance communications, and weather information.

How Capitalism Drives Cancel Culture

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Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact.

Helen Lewis writes:

Take the fall of the film producer Harvey Weinstein, which seems inevitable in hindsight—everyone knew he was a sex pest! There were even jokes about it on 30 Rock! But it took The New York Times months of reporting to ready its first story for publishing; the newspaper was taking on someone with deep pockets and a history of intimidating critics into silence. Then the story went off like a hand grenade. Suddenly, the mood—and the economic incentives—shifted. People who had been afraid of Weinstein were instead afraid of being taken down alongside him.

How Trump Is Helping Tycoons Exploit the Pandemic

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The New Yorker reports:

Yet reports show that in April, as Tyson and other producers were warning that “millions of pounds of meat will disappear” from American stores if they had to shut down, exports of pork to China broke records—and Mountaire’s chicken exports were 3.4 per cent higher than they were a year earlier. The next month, the company’s exports were 10.9 per cent lower than in 2019, but its exports to China and Hong Kong grew by 23.1 per cent in April and by fourteen per cent in May