SDGs are pushing an agenda carefully calibrated to avoid upsetting the world’s dictators, kleptocrats, and human rights offenders.
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Why Dictators Love Development Statistics
The problem with using statistics to sing the praises of autocracy is that collecting verifiable data inside closed societies is nearly impossible. From Ethiopia to Kazakhstan, the data that “proves” that an authoritarian regime is doing good is often produced by that very same regime.
They’re an easily faked way to score international points.
Flash Drives for Freedom’: How smuggled western media could take down Kim Jong-un
In the northwestern corner of South Korea, visitors to the city of Paju can peer through binoculars across the DMZ into the North. Paju is the site of The Bridge of No Return, an archaic link between the two warring Koreas that, decades ago, was used to exchange prisoners. Paju witnessed some of the hardest fought battles during the KoreanContinue reading “Flash Drives for Freedom’: How smuggled western media could take down Kim Jong-un”
The Atlantic Council’s questionable relationship with Gabon’s leader
SDGs are pushing an agenda carefully calibrated to avoid upsetting the world’s dictators, kleptocrats, and human rights offenders.
Why Did the Atlantic Council Even Consider Giving African Dictator Ali Bongo Ondimba a ‘Global Citizen Award’?
Gabon’s president is an outlandishly corrupt autocrat who probably just stole an election. Why did a venerated Washington think tank offer to toast him at a black-tie gala?
Meet the group trying to take down North Korea with USB sticks
Often referred to as “The Hermit Kingdom,” North Korea is one of the most closed societies in the world.
How North Korea’s Marchers for Peace Became Fellow Travelers
The Nobel Laureates and prominent activists who recently crossed into North Korea showed a shocking lack of sympathy for the North Korean people.
North Korea’s Fellow Travelers
Gloria Steinem, two Nobel Laureates, and 26 other women will be making a big mistake if they march across the DMZ with Christine Ahn.
Erykah Badu’s Oppressively Apolitical Stance on Human Rights
Gloria Steinem, two Nobel Laureates, and 26 other women will be making a big mistake if they march across the DMZ with Christine Ahn.
Africa’s Game of Thrones
The hazards of human-rights work in the continent’s last absolute monarchy
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