KCS Country Risk & Threat Advisory Briefing: West Africa Read More »
KCS Country Risk & Threat Advisory Briefing: West Africa Read More »
Peru’s politics is self-imploding once again as the President Martin Vizcarra has dissolved Congress in order to further an anti-corruption push, but is himself facing accusations of becoming a dictator. When Congress voted to remove him from office and install a more amenable premier, the government itself declared this void as Congress had already been
Peru: Shady Marmalade Read More »
Fake news may be politicised more than ever with the revelation that the Singaporean government will now decide what is real and what is not. Social media providers in the state will now be required to display warnings next to content alleging that it is false, if the authorities deem it to be so, with
Singapore has always been at war with Oceania Read More »
In a video clip a few years old, Russian president Vladimir Putin can be seen handing out prizes to a group of geography students. He asks one the question, where do the borders of Russia end? When the child cannot answer, Putin smiles and says, Russia has no borders. For a President more typically given
My land’s only borders lie around my heart! Read More »
Russia has accused America of hacking into its power grid and planting viruses. Not for the first time – and coincidentally only a few days after much of South America was blacked out – the two old foes are stoking fears not that a new cyberwar is on the way, but that it has already
Power to the people? Read More »
Russian television channels Sputnik and RT have been banned from a conference on media freedom to be held in the UK, with the organisers citing their ‘active role in spreading disinformation’. And while it is certainly true that these Russian institutions have a history of purposefully reporting lies and distorted truths, it can be just
Confirmation of bias Read More »
KCS Country Risk Brief: Libya Read More »
KCS Country Risk & Threat Advisory: Libya Read More »
Following on from our previous article, Scared New World: The Fracturing of the Internet, we turn to the private sector and why the behemoths of Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google – the Standard Oil-sized monopolies of today – have also come under increasing scrutiny. The recipients of frequent criticism, whether it be for data breaches,
The Monopoly-Industrial Complex Read More »