Politics

Twitter has evolved to become an important outlet for political discussion, debate and commentary. The platform was notably put to use to successfully organize anti-government protests on numerous occasions, and as Statista's Niall McCarthy notes, this put some world leaders on edge, unsurprisingly leading to some countries clamping down on the network's content.

Twitter's latest transparency report shows the number of content removal requests made by different countries as well as the share that were granted.

Authored by Andrei Akulov via The Strategic Culture Foundation,

Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times,

North Korea, Iran, Venezuela are targets in "compassionate" America's war on the "wicked few." It's almost as though Washington felt its hegemony threatened...

Paul Delaroche, Napoléon à Fontainebleau, 1840. With other global powers increasingly at odds with US foreign policy under Donald Trump, the nation's hegemony on the world stage may soon face its own crisis point.

Can Putin Stand Up To Washington?

Drake University Emeritus Professor of Economics Ismael Hossein-zadeh explains that the reason Russian President Vladimir Putin so often blinks when Washington confronts him is that the ruling oligarchs in the US and Russia are members of the same financial elite. The more than one hundred Russian billionaires are financially integrated into the West and are able to elevate their interests above Russian national interests.

Netanyahu: "Penguins have no difficulty recognizing that some things are black and white."

Trump: "I have decided...I'll let you know."

Rouhani: "Iran's defense capacities are only a deterrent."