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(USA) Northrop Grumman Says It Will Walk Away From Cluster Bomb Contract (Marcus Weisgerber, Defense One)

Unexploded submunitions of a cluster bomb that hit a remote area in Azerbaijan. AZIZ KARIMOV/GETTY IMAGES Northrop Grumman said Thursday that it would walk away from...

(USA) New Biden Directive Shields Federal Scientists From Political Interference (Eric Katz, Defense One)

Biden's National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy JOSHUA ROBERTS/GETTY IMAGES President Biden signed a measure on Wednesday that seeks to ensure career federal employees can conduct scientific work...

(USA) The Pentagon’s Chance to Get Serious About Climate Change (Sharon Burke, Defense One)

U.S. Army 1st Special Force Command Staff Sgt. Eric Reyes checks the depth of a river that was caused when heavy rains fell on...

(USA/China) Beijing’s Warning Shot to Biden (Defense One)

Happier times: Mike Pompeo, who as Secretary of State met with China's State Councillor Yang Jiechi in Beijing in 2018, has been banned from...

(Israel/Syria) Is Israel in Secret Contact with Syria? (Mordechai Kedar, BESA Center)

 Syrian president Bashar Assad, who now views the Iranian presence in his country as a burden, wants to oust Tehran from Syrian soil—and he...

(Davos 2021) Resetting Geopolitics (Børge Brende, Taro Kono, Kang Kyung-Wha, H.H. Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Retno L. P. Marsudi, Fu Ying, WEF)

Despite the exigency of COVID-19 and of climate change, key countries are stepping back from efforts to manage these and other global risks. This...

(Davos 2021) Special Address by Suga Yoshihide, Prime Minister of Japan (WEF)

https://www.weforum.org/events/the-davos-agenda-2021/sessions/special-address-by-yoshihide-suga-prime-minister-of-japan

(Davos 2021) Special Address by Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore (WEF)

https://www.weforum.org/events/the-davos-agenda-2021/sessions/davos-agenda-special-address-by-g20-member-head-of-state-government

(Social Media) The double standards in Facebook and Twitter’s Trump ban (Rabia Mehmood, Al Jazeera)

Social media companies are waging a war against incitement and hate speech in the West, but what about the Global South? https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/1/29/the-double-standards-in-facebook-and-twitters-trump-ban

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