January 2017 Monthly Goodreads

Welcome to our first Monthly Goodreads (MGs)!

MGs are a collection of our team's favourite articles, documentaries, podcasts and videos on a variety of issues, often relating to current affairs. Highlights of this month include a new podcast series - Intercepted and an article on the existing effects of climate change. Enjoy!

Articles:

Africa:

• South Africa has one of the world's worst education systems (The Economist)

• Decriminalising the sex trade in Zimbabwe (The Economist)

Asia:

• Steve Bannon: 'We're going to war in the South China Sea ... no doubt' (The Guardian)

• Why the rich breathe easier in China’s choking smog (South China Morning Post)

• US$2m theft from Taiwan ATMs linked to European hacking spree: security firm (South China Morning Post)

• Chinese Investors Have Money, Want Biotech and Don’t Fear Trump ​(Bloomberg)

• Startups in the Arab world (The Economist)

Europe: ​

• Theresa Maybe, Britain's indecisive premier (The Economist)

• Brexit: UK to leave single market, says Theresa May (BBC)

• Supreme court Brexit ruling: What happens next? (BBC)

• Eastern Europe's workers are emigrating, but its pensioners are staying (The Economist)

North America:

• Trump Fires Acting Attorney General Who Defied Him (The New York Times)

• What Americans Think Of Abortion - It's Not So Black and White (Vox)

• Donald Trump’s full inauguration speech transcript, annotated (The Washington Post)

• Woman's March on Washington (Vox)

World/ Other:

• As Donald Trump Denies Climate Change, These Kids Die of It (The New York Times)

• Why Ikea's flatpack refugee shelter won design of the year (The Guardian)

Documentaries:

• Reggie Yates: Hidden Australia - 1. Black in the Outback (BBC)

• Undercover: The Refugees Who Make Our Clothes (BBC)

• Terror on the Beach: Why Did it Happen? (BBC)

Podcasts:

• The Clock Strikes 13, and Donald Trump is President (Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept)

• Microsoft’s new tool to help users control data (Wall street Journal)

• Deutsche Bank settles Russian money laundering probe (Financial Times)

• Indonesia: A trial of tolerance (Financial Times)

• Protecting Children in War and Conflict: European and global implications for child rights (LSE)

• The Populist Challenge to Human Rights (LSE)

Videos:

• What we don't know about Europe's Muslim kids (TED)

• Donald Trump's refugee ban, explained (Vox)

• Understanding Trump's Executive Order on Immigration (Vlogbrothers)

• How should the media cover a White House that isn't afraid to lie? (Vox)

• 'We Are Muslims, Not Terrorists': Syrian Family Stranded in Jordan After Trump Order (ABC News)

• Executive orders explained (Financial Times)

• Here's What We Know About Russian Hackers (Bloomberg)​

• The world doesn't need more nuclear weapons (TED)

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