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How Ecuador is fighting to keep industrial trans fats off the food shelf
As health advocates push for tighter controls, Ecuador confronts the gap between regulating trans fats and enforcing those rules.
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Trump’s ‘Agreements on Reciprocal Trade’ (ARTs) threaten equitable access to the internet in Global South
The controversial reciprocal trade agreements (ARTs) gives the U.S. a great deal of power, which could adversely affect digital connectivity, increase digital divides, and…
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Subsea cables and oil pipelines: The infrastructure linking AI, empire, and occupation
The growing importance of subsea cables in military and economic policy offers an entrypoint into understanding the corrosive, yet dependent, relationship between AI and…
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Alibaba sues Pentagon to denounce being classified as a Chinese military affiliate
DoD’s public document describes Alibaba as indirectly affiliated with China State Council's supervision body, and a “military-civil fusion contributor to the Chinese defense industrial…
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El Niño speeds climate crisis and tests Latin America’s food security
From droughts to floods and fires, El Niño is exposing vulnerabilities in Latin America’s food systems by putting farmers, food supplies and household budgets under growing pressure across…
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Africa’s governments already treat the internet as protest infrastructure. Its courts have not caught up
In 2024 the African Commission itself adopted a resolution on internet shutdowns during elections. The resolution treats a shutdown as a harm to expression…
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Digital hopes, real power: From connection to collective action
If the Arab Spring was defined by optimism about what the internet could do, the years since have been marked by a more sober…
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Young people are bridging the climate divide for Oceania and the Caribbean
“The lack of strong and consistent climate policy means that every year, families lose loved ones, homes, and entire livelihoods because of climate-related disasters.”
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How a farmers’ protest in Bucharest was inflated online, then hijacked
Over 1,180 Facebook posts and 100 TikTok videos analyzed showed how a genuine farmers’ protest was inflated by clusters of accounts sharing identical messages,…