In the last few months, suspicious fires in warehouses and aboard aircraft, the severing of undersea power and Internet cables, GPS jamming, cyber operations against critical civilian infrastructure, and allegations of influence operations and election interference have been depicted as ‘hybrid warfare’ by both politicians and the media. So-called ‘hybrid threats’ or ‘hybrid attacks’, as well as allegations of the use of proxies to project power while attempting to obfuscate attribution and legal as well as political responsibility are a symptom of worrying developments, in particular in Europe. The geopolitical environment today is characterized by increasing/ed tensions among states, a militarized security environment, instability within countries, projection of power through a range of covert and coercive measures, and – at the global level – an increasing number of armed conflicts.
Day: January 15, 2025
The three legacies of Václav Havel – Go Health Pro
Former President of the Czech Republic Václav Havel left distinct political, philosophical and artistic legacies. Kieran Williams writes that while his words still hold great meaning, they require reading, re-reading and sometimes struggling with texts that were intended to unsettle. Central Europe recently marked the thirty-fifth anniversary of the 1989 revolutions that ended Communist rule. … Read more
How the chemical industry is derailing a ban on ‘forever chemicals’ – Go Health Pro
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I went to the ‘Severance’ pop-up in Grand Central Station. It was wild. – Go Health Pro
A marketing stunt for AppleTV+’s Severance Season 2 shook up New York City’s Grand Central Station on Jan. 14. And I witnessed it in all its surreal glory. The pop-up began when a large glass box appeared in Grand Central’s Vanderbilt Hall, containing a replica of the four-seated desk from Lumon’s Macrodata Refinement department. Hired … Read more
Biden’s big semiconductor law will boost US chip production at high cost: report – Go Health Pro
A sweeping 2022 law, touted by President Joe Biden as a way to revive US manufacturing of semiconductors and reduce the country’s reliance on foreign-made computer chips, will “sharply increase production” of semiconductors in the United States. But it will do so at a high cost and might not deliver the best bang for the … Read more
