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Theory and Methodology. The Power of the Pro-Israel Lobby. Camp David and Discursive Power in Action. The influential Imperial College model governments have used to justify economic shutdown shows that lockdown only delays and worsens the problem long-term.

In response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, governments have implemented authoritarian lockdown measures that could easily be doing more harm than good.

The World Health Organization WHO is sponsoring a malaria vaccine study in African children without obtaining informed consent from parents. The New York Times persists in propagating the unevidenced conspiracy theory that the Russian government hacked into US election infrastructure in Since then, the proportion of artists from the continent has risen, and the network says it hopes to reach 50 percent African programming in the next year.

But on the radio, hip-hop from overseas is increasingly becoming the norm. They prefer to program American artists such as 50 Cent because such rap helps corporations sell consumer goods. But local rappers, whose music critiques government and poverty, dub American rap, ironically, "white-boy oppressor music," even though the artists are predominantly African American. Nairobi native Michael Wanguhu, who created the documentary film Hip-Hop Colony , says this kind of cultural homogenization and commercial sponsorship are becoming major worries.

Every October in Braunschweig, Germany, 8, hip-hop fans from around the world gather to witness the biggest global hip-hop dance competition, the Battle of the Year. They are artists," says Lee.

Hip-hop events such as the Battle of the Year create spaces for a globalization from the bottom, bringing people together across the barriers of geography, language, and race. Everyone fears the upstart South Koreans, a team of superbly synchronized underdogs sporting patriotic white, red, and aqua-colored hooded track suits. But the essence of hip-hop is the cipher, born in the Bronx, where competition and community feed each other. It is here that hip-hop always returns.

In the final round of Battle of the Year, the crews line up and verbally attack each other, either one-on-one or "commando style," all at once. It is always a night of riotous explosion of bodies, as dancers burst to the breakbeats. The climax of the battle, the most thrilling part, is itself the deepest kind of communication. From the White House to Turtle Bay, sanctions have never been more popular. But why are they so hard to make work?

Boosted by the commercialization of the music industry, that message has proven its appeal to youth all around the world. By Jeff Chang.

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