Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Meet Homeland Security’s new “disinformation czar” The Department of Homeland Security is getting a big addition to its
Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay Dear Elon, Congratulations on the acquisition of Twitter. We hope this will help put the world on track to be a better place. You stated that “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy and Twitter is the digital town square where matters
(Nairobi) – Sudan’s security forces have unlawfully detained hundreds of protesters since December 2021 and forcibly disappeared scores as part of its broader clampdown on opposition to the October 25 military coup, Human Rights Watch said today. Security forces have beaten and otherwise ill-treated detained protesters, including stripping child detainees
(Istanbul) – The conviction on April 25, 2022 of the human rights defender Osman Kavala and his seven co-defendants is a shocking miscarriage of justice, Human Rights Watch said today.
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. The French “Election” The new season of “Presidential Election” has just kicked off, and they are already repeating plot