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La Lettre and its media partners reveal a series of corruption cases at NATO Support and Procurement Agency. Far from promoting transparency, NSPA management has restricted audits and dismissed whistleblowers. A reform launched by Secretary General Mark Rutte could further shrink state control over the organisation.

The Animal Agriculture Alliance, which briefs the FBI, has tracked over 2,400 individuals linked to animal welfare and environmental groups.

Crosspost from Ghazi@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Her latest report, ‘From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide,’ submitted to the UN Human Rights Council on July 3, marks a seismic intervention. It unflinchingly names and implicates companies that have not only allowed Israel to sustain its war and genocide against Palestinians, but also confronts those who have remained silent in the face of this unfolding horror.

SINGAPORE – While Western research shows that democracies with more civil liberties tend to be more united, South-east Asia goes against the grain.

The United States is known for the deep polarization between its two major political parties — the right-wing Republicans and left-wing Democrats. Now an analysis of hundreds of thousands of policy documents reveals striking differences in partisan policymakers’ use of the scientific literature, with Democratic-led congressional committees and left-wing think tanks more likely to cite research papers than their right-wing counterparts.

Data journalism in the Middle East has been driven by organizations that have produced collaborations and projects that combine innovative techniques with nuanced local knowledge.

Friday’s economic boycott is a one-day attack on corporate interests. The degrowth movement calls for a broader societal shift.

There has been no shortage of news since our last column, giving data teams a wide variety of topics to explore. Aviation accidents and the opening salvos of President Donald Trump’s planned trade warfare made headlines globally. Meanwhile, in Gaza, the next phases of the ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, as well as the return of Palestinians to the devastated areas, have been widely covered. This edition of our Top 10 in Data Journalism, which considered stories between January 27 and February 14, also highlights an analysis of the ideological positions of German political parties; a cross-border investigation into the shadow fleet transporting sanctioned Russian oil; an analysis of the homes that survived the Los Angeles fires; and a special on the security of four-digit passwords.

Eliminate the pressure to spend money on things you don’t actually value by considering whether purchases you’re making are adding real worth to your life.

"They offered us oil, but we don't want oil, we want the institutions and the borders," Abu Qasra said.

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Elon Musk waded into controversy on Monday when he gave back-to-back fascist-style salutes during celebrations of the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump.

Pappe talks to Al Jazeera on ‘neo-Zionism’, ceasefire talks, the second coming of Trump and ‘indoctrination’ in Israel.

Luigi Mangione has drawn lots of defenders on social media. That's a challenge for platforms when it comes to moderation — and for users.

A fundamental part of “what to know” about these crimes is egregiously missing from the Times report – the role of the United States:

Annoying format, but a good article.

Bullshitters, as philosopher Harry Frankfurt wrote in his 1986 essay “On Bullshit,” don’t care whether what they are saying is factually correct or not. Instead, bullshit is characterized by a “lack of connection to a concern with truth [and] indifference to how things really are.” Frankfurt explains that a bullshitter “does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.”