What are our political options when there is every reason to think that we have very little time left?

Guy Fawkes May Be the Root of the Word “Guys”

Bitcoin Uses More Electricity Than Many Countries. How Is That Possible?

In Modi’s India, there’s no more room for Muslim Bollywood superstars

China Makes It a Crime to Mock Country’s Heroes

COVID-19 vaccine gives 5 times the protection of ‘natural immunity,’ data show

mandatory wearing of masks exhibits effects similar to maintaining 2-m social distancing in preventing COVID-19

Squid Game’s Strike Flashbacks Were Modeled on Our Real-Life Factory Occupation

In U.S.-China Competition, Taiwan’s Voice Must Be Heeded

‘The real puzzle is not when chiefs first appeared,’ they suggest, ‘but rather when it was no longer possible to simply laugh them out of court.’

U.S. Admitted Zero Uyghur Refugees in Fiscal 2021

Why Carl Schmitt Matters to China: Uncovering the pathology of Schmitt Fever

Facebook Services Are Used to Spread Religious Hatred in India, Internal Documents Show

Alec Baldwin ‘Rust’ camera crew walked off before shooting

This is great. I’ve long known of George Psalmanazar’s fraud (claiming to be a prince of Formosa), but not about the efforts to expose him afterwards!

Court rulings free Hong Kong police to probe older offences under security law (i.e. violations that took place BEFORE the law went into effect!!!)

Namewee and Kimberley Chen blocked on Weibo after releasing satirical duet

DPP lawmaker admits being a KMT informant (Who will be next?)

Jake Werner’s excellent in-depth review of Isabella Weber’s How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate

Comments by Vijay Prashad, Richard Wolff at DSA Event, as well as David Harvey, Reveal Fanciful Idealization of China

On the importance of The Free, Prior and Informed Consent in Indigenous Peoples and Business Activities in Taiwan

The Rise of the Chinese Tankie: The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend

Maria Ressa’s Nobel Prize is a huge blow to Facebook

Flatworms Can Reproduce by Ripping Themselves in Half (And the half without a head retains memories!)

They Had the Vaccines and a Plan to Reopen. Instead They Got Cold Feet