By Nick Turse* – The Intercept The State Department’s new reports whitewash the records of some of the world’s most notorious nations and targets Trump’s enemies. The State Department released its annual reports on human rights around the world on Tuesday, and revealed an administration set on whitewashing the records of some of the world’s worst violators of human rights. The hollowed-out reports on roughly 200 countries and territories omit references to LGBTQ+ discrimination...| Other News - Voices against the tide
Trumps chaotische Politik scheint in Afrika nur einem Ziel zu dienen: dem Geschäft| www.rosalux.de
The Valdai Discussion Club was established in 2004. It was named after Lake Valdai, which is located close to Veliky Novgorod, where the club’s first meeting took place. The club’s goal is to promote dialogue between Russian and international intellectual elite, and to make an independent, unbiased scientific analysis of political, economic and social events in Russia and the rest of the world.| Valdai Club
To the extent that there is a comprehensible theology underlying the Trump Administration's engagement with the world, it is not premised upon an understanding or tenet of Christianity.| Contending Modernities
Untangling the “white genocide” narrative from propaganda to punchline, as South Africa’s president meets with Trump in the White House.| The Intercept
Mirroring liberal interventionist pieties is not the way forward for American diplomacy.| The American Conservative