10 Sunday Reads – The Massive Image

Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning take a look at incompetency, corruption, and coverage failures:

• The Ten Hardest Truths In regards to the Conflict in Europe The writer of a bestseller on Russia, Ukraine, and hyperlinks between the Russia-Ukraine battle and U.S. politics reveals 10 terrifying issues in regards to the worst army disaster in Europe since 1945. (Proof)

• The lengthy, unusual historical past of anti-vaccination actions Right here’s what the previous can inform us about the way forward for the pandemic. (Vox) see additionally How Did This Many Deaths Turn out to be Regular? The U.S. is nearing 1 million recorded COVID-19 deaths with out the social reckoning that such a tragedy ought to provoke. Why? (The Atlantic)

• How CNN’s Jeff Zucker and His Cronies Manipulated the Information Texts, electronic mail exchanges, and 36 sources inform the true story behind the downfall of TV’s final operator (Rolling Stone)

• Wells Fargo Left Black Householders Behind in Pandemic Mortgage Refinancing Increase Fewer than half of Black candidates have been authorized by the largest financial institution mortgage lender. (Businessweek)

• YouTube is spreading Putin’s ‘morally repugnant’ Ukraine propaganda Russian state retailers are utilizing the U.S.-based video streaming big to push “denazification” messages to justify invading Ukraine to Russian-speaking audiences. (Grid) however see YouTube blocks RT worldwide When YouTube first took motion towards Russia-controlled media retailers reminiscent of RT and Sputnik, it was restricted to Europe. However on Friday, YouTube expanded the coverage to use internationally. The transfer by the corporate offers one more massive blow to Putin’s propaganda machine. (Twitter)

• How the proper embraced Russian disinformation about ‘U.S. bioweapons labs’ in Ukraine: Regardless of the fixed debunking, the Russian propaganda that america has bioweapons labs in Ukraine has taken root, particularly on the proper, with the hashtag #usbiolabs trending on Twitter because the Russian invasion of Ukraine commenced. “Would the Russian invasion of Ukraine be justified if it have been for biodefense?” requested Robert W. Malone, a outstanding vaccine skeptic, on March 9. (Washington Submit)

• Madison Cawthorn Is Not An Outlier “Keep in mind that Zelensky is a thug,” mentioned the 26-year-old conservative rock star at a city corridor final Saturday. Republicans are anxious — very anxious certainly — to inform us that Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn doesn’t communicate for his fellow Republicans. Senator Lindsey Graham rushed to the microphone to guarantee us that Cawthorn is an outlier “within the largest sense doable on our aspect.” (The Bulwark)

• How Western Companies Quietly Enabled Russian Oligarchs Funding, legislation and lobbying corporations have helped enmesh Kremlin-linked oligarchs into the Western monetary and authorized techniques. (New York Occasions) see additionally How a Playground for the Wealthy May Undermine Sanctions on Oligarchs Allies of President Vladimir Putin, arriving on personal jets and yachts, are nonetheless welcome within the U.A.E., which has but to sentence the Ukraine invasion or implement sanctions. (New York Occasions)

• The hidden billion-dollar price of repeated police misconduct: Greater than $1.5 billion has been spent to settle claims of police misconduct involving 1000’s of officers repeatedly accused of wrongdoing. Taxpayers are sometimes at midnight.  (Washington Submit)

• The International Glut of Clothes Is an Environmental Disaster The U.S. throws away as much as 11.3 million tons of textile waste every year—round 2,150 items of clothes every second (Bloomberg)

Remember to take a look at our Masters in Enterprise interview this weekend with Michelle Seitz, Chairman and Chief Govt Officer of Russell Investments, the sixth largest supervisor on the earth. The agency manages over $331. billion in property and advises on one other $2.8 trillion.

Boycotts, Not Bombs: Sanctions Are a Go-To Tactic, With Uneven Outcomes

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