New World Order and Globalism

China’s Xi paints Belt and Road’s place in a Beijing-led world order  The AustralianChinese President Xi Jinping has outlined plans to expand his Belt and Road Initiative into broader economic and social co-operation between signatory ... […]

11 New Books We Recommend This Week  The New York TimesSuggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. […]

Why has Frankie Boyle gone so soft?  Spectator.co.uk'I spend a lot of time helping teenagers who've been sexually abused…' — beat — '…find their way out of my house.' You'd scarcely imagine, listening to ... […]

Regulators Around the World are Circling Facebook  The New York TimesFacebook revealed that it expects a record fine from the F.T.C. That could be one of many moves against the company by governments on four continents. […]

Wake up, there is no Planet B | News | Environment  Mail and GuardianThe Green New Deal proposed by progressives in the United States cannot be achieved in isolation. To tackle climate change and inequality, all countries will ... […]

Erdogan’s Party Is Deeply Divided by Push to Redo Istanbul Election  The New York TimesISTANBUL — A last-ditch effort by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's governing party to annul the election for mayor of Istanbul has opened wide divisions in ... […]

Review: In 'JT Leroy,' Dern and Stewart Find The Truth Behind The Lies  NPRLaura Dern and Kristin Stewart star in the real-life tale of a frustrated author who created a false identity that captivated the literary world. […]

How Fake News Can Impact Financial Markets and How to Stay Vigilant Against Misleading Information Masquerading as Truth  CardRates.comIn a Nutshell: Fake news is very real in today's media landscape. Researchers have discovered that false stories on financial websites can actually sway […]

Book Review: Alisa Smith's Doublespeak will leave you wanting more  Vancouver SunDoublespeak is an excellent followup to Alisa Smith's Speakeasy. […]

Five Eyes cyber summit – five things we learned  PublicTechnologyThis week saw a landmark public meeting of the alliance between the cyber intelligence services of the UK, US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. […]

SB'19 Paris: The Future of Leadership Is Bold, Brave and Feminine  Sustainable BrandsEurope's largest event on innovation and sustainability, Sustainable Brands '19 Paris — taking place this week — echoes the growing call for a shift away from ... […]

Slack finds ways to fit in at the office, ahead of stock debut  Moneyweb.co.zaSlack users will be able to send and receive emails with colleagues from within the chat software. […]

Yes, AI Is Racist & China Has Proven It With Its Facial Recognition Tech To Track Ethnic Muslims  Analytics India MagazineAs artificial intelligence becomes more pervasive, China country has taken substantial strides. The country known for its AI surveillance technology is now ... […]

Avengers: Endgame Review: Time Is on Their Side  WIREDAll our years spent with Earth's mightiest heroes meant something more than one movie could contain. Endgame tries to do it anyway. […]

Beyond Beyond Meat's IPO lies a 'new world order of food'  ImpactAlphaImpactAlpha, April 25 – The initial public offering of plant-based meat maker Beyond Meat signals the arrival to the public capital markets of a wave of innovation ... […]

What's on? TV highlights for Thursday April 25  RTE.ieUltimate Hell Week continues to prove that other people's misery is endless entertaining, Super Garden's back, as is the life-affirming This is Us after a brief ... […]

DealBook Briefing: Is a $5 Billion Facebook Fine Enough?  The New York TimesThe social network expects to pay the F.T.C. a huge fine for privacy violations, but critics say that further action is required. […]

36 Hours in Kobe, Japan  The New York TimesIn 1868, after more than two centuries of isolationism, the opening of the port of Kobe brought a wave of international influences to this sunny city on the main ... […]

Why China's rise may call for 'a new world order'  CNBCThe international community needs to reestablish a world order based on rules as the rise of China coincides with the decline in European and American power, ... […]

U.K.'s Brexit Woe Is an Extreme Microcosm of Global Trade War  BloombergBrexit is an early experiment of how well the world can cope with new trade barriers and increased uncertainty. […]

Assembling the World Country-by-Country, Based on Economy Size  Visual CapitalistHow does the world map change if it gets assembled based on the size of economies, in ascending order of GDP or GDP per capita? […]

Who hit the ball out? An egocentric temporal order bias  Science AdvancesTemporal order judgments can require integration of self-generated action events and external sensory information. We examined whether conscious ... […]

The Daily 202: Trump looks to defuse trade wars as 2020 nears, deploying Pence to Michigan and Mnuchin to China  The Washington PostWith Joanie Greve and Mariana Alfaro. THE BIG IDEA: Vice President Pence is traveling to Michigan today to sell President Trump's overhaul of the 25-year-old […]

2020 presidential election: Democrats defining foreign policy against Trump  Vox.comDemocrats are working to create a progressive foreign policy to defeat Trump in the 2020 presidential election. […]

White by Bret Easton Ellis review – sound, fury and insignificance  The GuardianFor reasons clear only to himself, Bret Easton Ellis opens his new book with an image of himself hunched over a screen, pulsating with uncontrollable fury. […]

The Daily 202: Kamala Harris vs. Nancy Pelosi on impeachment highlights the conflicting incentives for Democrats  The Washington PostWith Joanie Greve and Mariana Alfaro. THE BIG IDEA: Nancy Pelosi wants Democrats to maintain control of the House. Kamala Harris wants to win the ... […]

A 30-Year Look At America's Money Since The End Of The Cold War  Forbes2017 AP YEAR END PHOTOS - U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit on July 7, 2017, in Hamburg. […]

What's on? TV highlights for Monday Television | 22 Apr  RTE.ieThere's a documentary about the Luke Kelly statues in Dublin, Mark Kermode's back spilling movie secrets, and Sara Pascoe's on for some late night laughs . . . […]

X and the Leviathan: Can We Imagine an Alternative Politics of Climate Change?  lareviewofbooksTHE DANGERS and impending impacts of climate change are now so well documented that they risk becoming journalistic and scientific tropes. As Geoff Mann ... […]

Accounting for carbon in the age of climate change  Radio New ZealandNews of New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions going up after two successive years of decreases failed to make the television news bulletins. Mediawatch ... […]