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5 agosto, 2019
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Ask Me No Questions, and I’ll Tell You No Lies

Every summer, the War on the Rocks crew travels to Beaver Creek, Colorado, where the Clements Center hosts its summer seminar — an intimate gathering for PhD students, senior scholars, former policymakers, and a misanthropic editor and podcast host. In this episode, Alexandra Evans, Jim Goldgeier, Tanvi Madan, Doyle Hodges, and aforementioned misanthrope — Ryan Evans — fielded questions on international security from the junior scholars in attendance that they considered oft-ignored or ill-explored.

Ask Me No Questions, and I’ll Tell You No Lies

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5 agosto, 2019
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Trente ans et après (1/5): de la chute du Mur à l’effacement d’un pays

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Premier volet de notre série sur le trentième anniversaire de la chute du mur de Berlin. L’unification de l’Allemagne s’est soldée par le triomphe du modèle de l’Ouest, sans égard pour les partisans d’une « troisième voie ». Au-delà du régime communiste de la RDA, c’est la culture d’un pays entier qui fut reniée en bloc. Analyse, et entretien vidéo avec Nicolas Offenstadt.
C’est devenu le symbole du changement d’époque. Un peu par accident, le 9 novembre 1989, la frontière entre les deux Allemagnes a été ouverte. Finalement, la chute du mur de Berlin a décidé de l’effondrement du bloc dominé alors par l’Union soviétique. L’événement participa d’une diffusion massive, inédite à l’échelle mondiale, du modèle d’élections pluralistes. De l’Europe postcommuniste à l’Asie du Sud-Est en passant par l’Afrique subsaharienne, la démocratie libérale semblait devenir l’horizon politique indiscuté des sociétés humaines. La répression chinoise du Printemps de Pékin, en juin 1989, n’en apparaissait que plus anachronique.

5 agosto, 2019
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Covering mass shootings

Trump laughs after audience member suggests shooting migrants – video. An audience member at a Donald Trump rally in Florida yelled ‘shoot them’ in reference to migrants at the border
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jean-paul marthoz@jpmarthoz
What is more depressing, Trump laughing at the» Shoot them» or the crowd behind him, people who look like decent moral God-fearing good Americans, or think they are? Trump would not exist without his voters. The demand side is as guilty as the supply side
Tueries de masse et/ou . Comment couvrir? Un document intéressant: la recommandation du Informer en situation d’urgence
Mass shooting research journalists news coverage

Journalist's ResourceHow journalists cover mass shootings: Research to consider

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The mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton have dominated the headlines since this weekend. If you or your colleagues are covering the story, here are some resources to help:

If you want someone to walk you through some of these resources, Poynter also offers these two webinars for free: «Journalism and Trauma» and «Best Practices for Reporting on Mass Shootings.»

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New research: News coverage of mass shootings

Dear readers,

There have been more than 250 mass shootings in the United States since Jan. 1, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more people are shot or killed, not including the shooter. In other words, in America, there have been more mass shootings than days in 2019. In two of those cases — the April synagogue shooting in Poway, California, and the El Paso, Texas, massacre on Sunday — the attacks were preceded with racist manifestos, posted to the online message board 8chan.

In covering this onslaught of tragic events, editors and reporters must grapple with some tough questions: How do we cover a mass shooting without glamorizing the shooter? How do we report on white supremacy without inadvertently amplifying hateful messages? As always, Journalist’s Resourceencourages journalists to address such questions with another question: What does the research say?

With that in mind, we’ve added new studies to our roundup of research on how journalists cover mass shootings. And we encourage you to revisit our recent tip sheet on covering white supremacy and far-right extremists, featuring insights from Joan Donovan, director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project here at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center, and Jessie Daniels, a sociologist at the City University of New York. Please also look at our related research roundup on white supremacy and cyber-racism; our tips for reporting on gun policy and gun violence from Jon Vernick, co-director of the John Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research; our list of seven things journalists should know about guns; and our Q&A with Harvard Kennedy School professor Khalil Muhammad, who offers guidance on how to handle stories that center on race and racism.

Here are some of the other compelling features on the JR docket this week:

•    An article highlighting new research showing that black men, over their lifetime, are 2.5 times more likely than white men to be killed by police.
•    An interview with Heidi Legg, director of special projects at the Shorenstein Center and the author of a new paper that identifies five trends shaping the local journalism business.
•    A pun-filled summary of a study on the number of frogs, bats and other creatures that turn up in packaged produce.

You’ll find more information on these new pieces below.

Take care,

Carmen Nobel, director of Journalist’s Resource

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5 agosto, 2019
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The Pandora box

A detail of the rare frontal depiction of Pandora on the circa 460 B.C. wine vessel. THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM-Foreign Policy

A woman looks out at us, her arms stiff and doll-like. She resembles a robot, perhaps a distant twin of Maria, the automaton of Fritz Lang’s 1927 classic film Metropolis. But this unique female figure—a depiction of Pandora—was painted on a clay vase nearly two and a half millenniums ago. And while humanity lacked the tools or the science to build an actual robot back then, the Greeks of that period were already imagining the possibility of artificial life.

As in our own era, the Greeks were ambivalent, even fearful, about the idea of imitating nature. But they had the story of Pandora as an example: According to Greek mythology, the young woman depicted on the vase was a trick devised by Zeus to punish mortals for accepting Prometheus’s stolen gift of fire. She was constructed by Hephaestus, the brilliant blacksmith god of invention and technology. According to ancient myths first written down around 700 B.C., Hephaestus forged marvelous weapons for the gods and heroes and built self-moving devices and wonders, including automated bellows for his forge, a crew of feminine automatons, automatic gates for the heavens, the colossal robot Talos that guarded the island of Crete, and a host of other animated machines.

Zeus commanded Hephaestus to create a kalon kakon (“beautiful evil”) in the form of an uncannily beautiful young woman who would arouse men’s lust. This bewitching fembot called Pandora would be dispatched to earth with one mission: to open a sealed jar filled with all the suffering and misfortunes that plagued humankind. Continue leyendo →

5 agosto, 2019
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The Asian Century Is Over

Chinese flags are displayed in Chaoyang Park in Beijing on Sept. 30, 2006.

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Beset by conflicts, stagnating economies, and political troubles, the region no longer looks set to rule the world

The air forces of four of Asia’s leading powers nearly came to blows in the skies over the Sea of Japan, or East Sea, last week. As Russia and China conducted their first joint aerial patrol, South Korean fighters fired more than 300 warning shots at a Russian command and control aircraft that crossed into South Korea’s air defense identification zone. Meanwhile, Japanese fighters scrambled in case Japanese territory came under fire.

The unprecedented encounter was just one more reminder of the risks that threaten peace in the Indo-Pacific—and that the “Asian Century,” once heralded by writers such as Kishore Mahbubani and Martin Jacques, is ending far faster than anyone could have predicted. From a dramatically slowing Chinese economy to showdowns over democracy in Hong Kong and a new cold war between Japan and South Korea, the dynamism that was supposed to propel the region into a glorious future seems to be falling apart. Continue leyendo →

5 agosto, 2019
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The secret history of ISIS

The Secret History of ISIS

Back in 2003, the US government made decisions that seemed to be the right call. However, without those decisions there would be no ISIS today. They created chaos and then walked away and abandoned it. From that chaos arose a militant terrorist group now known as ISIS. It was early 2014 and they seemed to come out of nowhere.

It was early 2014 and they seemed to come out of nowhere. ISIS started seizing key territory in Iraq. They swept into western Iraq and just took over the assets and nobody was able to stop them. Washington was stunned when they realized that the second largest city in Iraq fell in a day. But these were not angry newcomers; these men had been at war ever since the US invasion to Iraq. They had been fighting violently for ten years.

The secret life of ISIS began in the CIA headquarters in the aftermath of September 11 when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi became a person of interest. This man, who later became the founder of ISIS, was a thug who was in prison. It was there that he became more immersed in his religion and became determined to wage holy war. There was a prime opportunity to take him out because he was a threat to US forces and the allies, but Washington decided it was not the right time.

The vice-president at the time decided it was a better decision to use al-Zarqawi to lead them to Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden, but the CIA found no evidence that there was any connection between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. Still, the White House insisted and transformed Zarqawi into an iconic figure.

After the occupation, the defeated military felt disrespected. Week after week they had massive demonstrations that just kept getting worse; there were even a few killings. These men were easy targets for Zarqawi to recruit because they feared becoming meaningless in their own country. A few weeks later the insurgency began.

Washington chose to deny what was happening. They even went so far as accusing journalists of sensationalism and trying hard to convince everybody that the Iraqis were embracing the occupation.

Because the United States was in denial that an uprising was brewing, this made Zarqawi free to raise the stakes. He kidnapped a Jewish-American humanitarian and filmed his beheading for the world to see that he was serious and violent. Watch this film now.

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