Hollywood stars write to online store Amazon owner Jeff Bezos to complain about antisemitic content
Over 200 actors and artists from the entertainment industry have called on Amazon and Barnes & Noble to remove from their online stores an antisemitic documentary and book series that had been popularised by basketball player Kyrie Irving. Signatories include Hollywood stars such as actors Mila Kunis, Debra Messing, Mayim...
Thinking innovation: How creativity dumps mediocrity by breaking barriers and embracing social value
People have written about and discussed the concept of “innovation” at organisations extensively over many years. Interestingly, there has been an overly keen emphasis on a set of prescribed steps that are deemed necessary to innovate – as if there’s a process that can be replicated and repeated over and...
English FA bans Liverpool boss Klopp for game vs Southampton after vitriol on match official
Jurgen Klopp will miss Liverpool’s game against Southampton this weekend after the Football Association successfully appealed the decision to only fine the manager for his furious rant towards a match official. The German was initially fined £30,000 by an independent regulatory commission over his conduct towards officials during the game...
Liberated! Ukrainian soldiers make triumphant entry into Kherson city as fleeing Russians kill more civilians
Ukraine on Friday announced that its forces were entering the city of Kherson, hailing an “important victory” after Russia said its troops had retreated from the only regional capital it had captured in nearly nine months of fighting. Ukraine’s parliament published pictures of people carrying Ukrainian flags in the centre...
Fifa turns down Denmark’s request to wear shirts with ‘human right for all’ message in training
The Danish Football Association has confirmed Fifa has rejected their national team’s request to train at the World Cup in shirts with the words “human rights for all” on them. The DBU said in 2021 that their two training kit sponsors would make way for messages critical of Qatar while...
Russian army pulls out of Kherson as defence minister admits inability to resist Ukrainian firepower
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, in a rare live televised speech, announced on Wednesday that Russian troops would retreat from the west bank of the Dnipro River and give up the provincial capital of Kherson, the one regional capital they’d managed to capture in nearly nine months of fighting. Russian...
Rohingya refugees in a catch-22 state: Life in refugee camps and exile is at risk as back home
As Southeast Asian leaders gather in the Cambodian capital this week for a regional summit, the escalating violence in Myanmar is atop the agenda, but Rohingya refugees and activists are urging that the plight of those driven out of the country is not forgotten. More than five years after escaping...
Russian cyberespionage: Instead of choosing stealthy espionage or disruptive attacks they become embedded
In 2018, Russia’s hacking agency, GRU, infected more than half a million routers worldwide with malware known as VPNFilter and they similarly attempted to create a botnet of hacked firewall devices that was discovered just ahead of Russia’s Ukraine invasion in February. But Mandiant analysts argue that only now are...
Eight months after Russia launched catastrophic invasion of Ukraine, it’s cyberwarfare is now grotesque
Since Russia launched its catastrophic full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February, the cyberwar that it has long waged against its neighbour has entered a new era too – one in which Russia has at times seemed to be trying to determine the role of its hacking operations in the midst...
America’s addiction to war: To convert war into something sacred means fashioning a deceitful myth
Complexities involving alternatives to Washington’s war-making urges are, of course, not part of the national conversation on Veterans Day. Instead, we are promised that war and this country’s warriors will somehow redeem us as a nation. The unimaginable losses to families, communities, infrastructure and culture in the lands where such...
