#Art #Censorship at Capitol Fought at DC Circuit https://www.courthousenews.com/art-censorship-at-capitol-fought-at-dc-circuit/
The D.C. Circuit grappled Friday with whether a student artist suffered discrimination when his contest-winning art was removed from the U.S. Capitol complex.
courthousenews.com
The list of failed lessons from the US war on Afghanistan after seventeen years of incessant violence is a long one. Here are a few.
foreignpolicyjournal.com
Well, #Afghanistan has been an insatiable funnel of taxpayers' money (military budget) to private corporations, so if this was the goal, then they got nothing "wrong" https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2018/09/29/17-years-of-getting-afghanistan-completely-wrong/
Facebook, Twitter, Apple and other companies routinely silence voices in marginalised communities around the world that struggle to be heard
gulfnews.com
Why digital #censorship is such a risky undertaking https://gulfnews.com/opinion/thinkers/why-digital-censorship-is-such-a-risky-undertaking-1.2284103 "Platforms have taken down documentation of #war crimes in #Syria "
In the summer of 1992, Jack Platt, an American, and his Russian best friend, Gennady “Genya” Vasilenko, saw each other for the first time in four years. It was a tense reunion. Vasilenko had spent …
nypost.com
When you can't quite tell the difference between two rogue and brutal spy agencies that assassinate, and then #newscorp tabloid NYP publishes this: https://nypost.com/2018/09/29/how-two-spies-from-the-kgb-and-cia-became-bffs/
