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Laying a Presidency to Rest

By bicyclemark

You don’t really need me to explain or describe the reaction to yesterday’s election here in Europa… so I’ll skip right past it. Looking to the future yesterday, I was picturing how strange it will be for the world, after so many years of a US administration and an overall image of the United States... »

The Quintessential China-US Debate

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I’ll start the week by pointing you to a very excellent edition of On the Media, one of my absolute required-listening podcasts each week – Journalism with Chinese Characteristics. And the subtext of the post reads as follows: There is real investigative reporting in China, it’s just not done under a free press flag. Instead,... »

Drowning Torture

By bicyclemark

Waterboarding is one of those words that is pushed on the public in order to distract or mislead people from thinking about the actual crime it involves. On the latest edition of On The Media, they did a fantastic job of exploring the manipulation of this word and what it means. At one point,... »