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America’s Disinformation Complex
Invasion of the Fact-Checkers by Jacob Siegel
How the FBI Hacked Twitter by Lee Smith
The Borg of the Gargoyles by Jeremy Stern and Jeff Garzik
Treason of the Science Journals by Ashley Rindsberg
International News from The Scroll
Making his first visit to Russia since its invasion of Ukraine, Chinese leader Xi Jinping reaffirmed his bond with President Vladimir Putin on Monday, saying the two nations were “good neighbors and reliable partners” before attending a private state dinner scheduled at the Kremlin. Though Beijing has spent the past several weeks burnishing Xi as a peace negotiator in the conflict, Western leaders have largely dismissed Xi’s role. Soon after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Putin on charges of war crimes, China’s Foreign Ministry chided the court for its “double standards.”
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From The Scroll
Bank bailouts are going global after the Swiss National Bank swooped in with a $54 billion loan to Credit Suisse on Thursday. It’s the first major international bank to receive emergency financing since the 2008 Great Recession, and analysts wonder if the ongoing interest-rate hikes by central banks won’t send more banks spiraling. Despite concerns, the European Central Bank continued with its planned interest hikes, increasing rates by 50 basis points.
—What Happened Today: March 16, 2023
Also by Michael Lind
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Cass Sunstein’s latest TED Talk of a book offers the kind of technocratic whimsy that left and right can agree to hate
In America today, we have informal labor cartels for the college-educated elite, while private sector unions for the working class are all but annihilated
Asians and Jews in America
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Discriminated against while being held up as models of success, these two groups have long followed a common road. Now their prosperity leads to cries of ‘unearned privilege.’ What does this mean for America and its minorities?
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Politics Dispatch from The Scroll
As President Biden postpones a final decision to announce his campaign for re-election in 2024, the wheels of speculation are turning in Washington, D.C., where donors and possible contenders for the Democratic ticket remain in a state of limbo. “An inertia has set in,” one source close to the Biden camp told Politico. “It’s not that he won’t run, and the assumption is that he will. But nothing is decided. And it won’t be decided until it is.”
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