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China Renews Threat Against Taiwan Amid Drills

China renewed its threats Wednesday to attack Taiwan and warned that foreign politicians who interact with the self-governing island are “playing with fire.” A spokesperson for China's Taiwan Affairs Office said the country was recommitted in the new year to “safeguarding sovereignty and territorial integrity” and “smashing plots for Taiwan…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Still wrestling with Jan. 6 fallout, US contends with Bolsonaro’s Florida stay after Brazil riots

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is struggling to contend with the Florida stay of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who many blame for violent riots this week in Brazil’s capital.

Los Angeles Times

New Zealand does not offer tenure to academics, but a recent employment dispute shows it's more than a job perk

Late last year, the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) initiated a process to eliminate 170 academic jobs to cut costs. The Employment Relations Authority (ERA) found AUT’s approach breached its collective employment agreement with staff and their union and ordered it to withdraw the termination notices.

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Brazil insurrection: how so many Brazilians came to attack their own government

The storming of the three main symbols of the Brazilian republic – the supreme court, the national congress and the presidential palace – is the kind of event that could shape the country’s history. While Brazil has gone through military coups and social turmoil since it became independent in 1822,…

The Conversation

The Walrus Leadership Forum: Trust in Democracy

The challenges facing our leaders and institutions

The Walrus

Netanyahu: Claims Judicial Reform Plans Will End Israel’s Democracy Are ‘baseless’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected as "baseless" claims by critics that his government proposed judicial reforms.

Zenger

Brazil protests: Why are Lula and Bolsonaro’s supporters protesting?

Supporters of right-wing former president Jair Bolsonaro have rioted in protest against Lula’s victory

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Speaker McCarthy: That's no joke, folks

As usual, the mockery was a way to avoid the real emotions we should feel: How the hell did America get here?

Salon

First Thing: Democrats decry new House rules as a ‘ransom note to America’

Partisan lines divided the vote on rules, with no Democrats voting for them and only one Republican voting against. Plus, how US state agencies got funny

The Guardian - UK

Commentary: GOP insurrectionists mount a new attack on the Capitol by stalling House speaker election

Two years after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, some of the same far-right Republican members of Congress who refused to certify the lawful election of President Joe Biden are waging a new attack on democracy by throwing the U.S. House into chaos.

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: The first step in dumping Trump

Former President Donald Trump has been called many things, from a would-be tyrant to an alleged sexual predator. In the aftermath of the 2022 elections, a new moniker may sound his death knell — a loser. He lost in 2020, as did his party. With inflation running high in a…

Tribune News Service

Thousands take to the streets in Brazil to condemn rioters

The riot in Brasilia was a reminder of the threat to democracy posed by those that refuse to accept former President Jair Bolsonaro’s electoral defeat

The Independent UK

Brazil envoy decries ‘grotesque and failed assault’ on democracy

Army and riot police clear Bolsonaro supporters from Brasília as US, Mexico and Canada say they ‘stand by’ democratic institutions

The Guardian - US

Brazil and Jan. 6 in US: Parallel attacks, but not identical

The scenes of supporters of Brazil's defeated president Jair Bolsonaro breaking into government buildings that are the very symbol of their country’s democracy brought back memories of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol

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Lauren Boebert sugarcoats House speaker vote chaos, calling it her ‘most productive week in Congress’

Ms Boebert and other Republicans are spinning the drawn-out speakership fight as a win for democracy

The Conversation

Brazil: swift and robust response to the insurrection highlights the strength of democracy

Brazil’s state institutions, including the recently installed government of Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, have reacted swiftly in the wake of the riots in Brasilia last weekend. Hundreds of rioters have already been arrested and the state governor of the federal district has been suspended for his sluggish and ineffective…

Daily Mirror

Far-right rioters hunted for storming Brazil's seats of power after Bolsonaro defeat

Copying the bid by Donald Trump’s violent MAGA supporters to overturn the country’s democracy, Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court and presidential palace were invaded

The Guardian - US

‘They were in ecstasy’: how Bolsonaro mob’s orgy of violence rocked Brasília

Far-right rioters say they came to overthrow President Lula in attack that echoed January 6 assault on US Capitol

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Brazil cracks down on pro-Bolsonaro rioters after Congress stormed

Brazilian soldiers backed by police dismantled a camp of supporters of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro in the capital on Monday, a day after rioters launched the worst attack on Brazil's state institutions since its return to democracy in the 1980s. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva joined leaders of…

Salon

Will young people save US democracy?

Unlike past generations, younger voters are not growing more conservative with age

Daily Mirror

Brazil protests: Apocalyptic scenes as 'fanatics' storm president's office and palace

Thousands of Jair Bolsonaro supporters bypassed security barricades, climbed on roofs, smashed windows and invaded Brazil's Three Powers Square after his rival was inaugurated

The Guardian - UK

World leaders condemn Brazil violence as US lawmakers call for Bolsonaro extradition

Joe Biden says situation in Brazil is ‘outrageous’ as presidents across South America denounce ‘assault on democracy’

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Fate of Amazon rests in the hands of Brazil’s Lula

Last week, the world’s fourth-largest democracy swore in a new (and old) president after kicking its own second-rate Trumpian demagogue to the curb. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, better known simply as Lula, was sworn in on Jan. 1, his second time at the helm of the diverse…

France 24

Brazil authorities pledge to punish pro-Bolsonaro rioters and those who financed them

Brazilian authorities were picking up pieces and investigating Monday after thousands of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and presidential palace then trashed the nation’s highest seats of power.

Evening Standard

Brazilian President Lula vows to punish far-right rioters who stormed country’s congress and top court

Brazilian authorities have begun investigating the worst attack on the country’s institutions since democracy was restored four decades ago

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