Robert Greenhill 🇨🇦

Millions of Women Will Lose Access to Contraception as a Result of Trump Aid Cuts

Millions of Women Will Lose Access to Contraception as a Result of Trump Aid Cuts www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...

Providing young people with free and confidential access to birth control and IUDs resulted in a significant increase in use.

Free, confidential access to contraception boosts use among Ontario youth: study - Faculty of Health Sciences https://healthsci.mcmaster.ca/?post_type=post&p=27578

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BBC warns Russia is taking over World Service radio frequencies Russian propaganda is filling the void where the BBC has closed World Service radio services due to cuts

BBC's Arabic radio service in Lebanon closed after 85 years as part of a £28.5m savings drive. 'Just months later, in October 2023, the Russian state-owned Sputnik news agency took over the frequency. Its news bulletin opened with “This is Moscow”, replacing the previous “This is London” intro.' 🙄

Haiti Is Burning, but There Is a Path Forward A successful intervention will provide a model for solving other crises in an era of fraying multilateralism.

The crisis overwhelming Haiti is a microcosm of the failures of the current global system and the challenges of coordinating peacekeeping outside the United Nations, writes Christopher Sabatini (@chathamhouse.org) and @robertgreenhill.bsky.social for @foreignpolicy.com.

José Mujica, Leftist President of Uruguay Known for Humility, Dies at 89

“The problem is that the world is run by old people, who forget what they were like when they were young.” José Mujica

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

Opinion | How to Fill the America-Shaped Hole in Global Health Left by Trump (Gift Article) The World Health Organization should do what it can do bring the U.S. back as a member.

Writing in The NY Times @PeterSinger.bsky.social: How to Fill the America-Shaped Hole in Global Health (gift article ) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/o...

In maybe the Most Canadian story ever, two political parties (the NDP and Bloc Québécois) are asking that tomorrow's French language election debate be postponed because it conflicts with a Montreal Canadiens game.

US-China trade war tariffs: An up-to-date chart

We have another update. As of April 11, on average:

US tariffs on China are now 134.7%
China tariffs on the US are now 147.6%

US tariffs on rest of the world are 10.5%
China tariffs on rest of the world are 6.5%

NEW 🧵

A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:

1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.

These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.

The US axing funding for contraception will cause a 12% increase in global maternal mortality. That's another 34,000 women who will die due to pregnancy and childbirth.

It will cause another 17.1 million unintended pregnancies, and 5.2 million unsafe abortions www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...

‘What we are witnessing are not the collapse of the institutions of American democracy, it is the collapse of the culture of democracy… and it can be seen on this side of the Atlantic too’

Lord Sumpton - hardly a bleeding heart liberal- incredibly worrying on state of democracy

The Mission to Electrify Africa Might Finally Be Under Way Mini-grids generate electricity for small communities that aren’t on national supply networks — and the economics suggest their time may finally have come.

"Plunging solar panel prices, more business-friendly regulation by African governments and international funding are now spurring a rapid rollout [of mini-grids] from Nigeria to Madagascar." www.bloomberg.com/features/202... by @antonysguazzin.bsky.social and Taonga Mitimingi 🔌💡

Protecting Our Collective Future: Renewing Canada’s Role in Global Health Overview of "Protecting Our Collective Future: Renewing Canada’s Role in Global Health"As we near the second quarter of the twenty-first century, the global health terrain is shifting in important way...

Our @bmj.com piece summarises the arguments & recommendations from the NEW @src-rsc.bsky.social / CAHS report on Canada's past and future role in #globalhealth #ODA #foreignaid #SRHR #multilateralism

Full EN report here
rsc-src.ca/en/protectin...

Canada should seize the opportunity to lead on global health challenges and cooperation Greater cooperation in global health is needed to tackle challenges and to harness new opportunities. Canada should take a greater leadership role, write Jocalyn Clark , Timothy Evans , and Kelley Lee...

Current chaos and challenge needs.... greater global cooperation.

In the area of multilateral & #globalhealth, we argue that Canada should take a greater leadership role.

Me, Tim Evans & Kelley Lee in today's @bmj.com

#cdnpoli #CanadaElection

One less-noticed success in the Canadian counteroffensive: The most famous thinkers at Yale — specifically writers on fascism — are being serially scooped up by the U of T’s Munk School as they express a desire to flee the Trump assaults on universities

What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

YouTube video by RETRO REPORT The Cold War on TV: Joseph McCarthy vs. Edward R. Murrow | Retro Report

"Until this moment, Senator, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness....Have you no decency, sir?"
Joseph Welch to Senator Joseph McCarthy, 1954.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_B1...

Not new, for sure, but the convergence of state threats and criminal entities is pretty interesting in our geopolitical context, and are often cyber-enabled.

In 2004, it took the world a year to add one gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day.

Well that passed more easily than many expected: 513 votes in favor, 24 more than needed.

Opinion: The United States is putting the United States in danger As America rapidly descends into authoritarianism, the world has become less safe – for Americans, too

Recently, I was asked to brief members and staff of the 🇺🇸 U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence about @citizenlab.ca research.

In normal times, such a briefing would be an honour. But these are not normal times.

My latest in @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Powerful A.I. Is Coming. We’re Not Ready. (Gift Article) Three arguments for taking progress toward artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., more seriously — whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/t...

It seems I've also been placed on leave, just like the rest of my VOA colleagues.

Truth is, I can't know for sure, because when I woke up this morning in Seoul, I'd already been locked out of all VOA-related systems and accounts.

How Many Lives Does US Foreign Aid Save? We present some estimates for lives saved by US assistance worldwide, with illustrative estimates by recipient country. Our core estimates are for deaths prevented from HIV/AIDS, vaccine-preventable i...

The Centre for Global Development has a crack at estimating lives that were being saved, now not due to the defunding of USAID. Their top-line: ~3.3m lives / year.
www.cgdev.org/blog/how-man...
1.65m HIV/AIDs
550k hunger/malnutrition
500k vaccine-preventable diseases
310k TB
290k Malaria

Off the charts level of institutional vandalism this past week. Kennan Institute long gathered superb Russian military expertise at a time when the subfield was not terribly fashionable. DOGE & co actively destroying DoD intellectual capacity in their mindless rampage through the bureaucracy.

Portugal Drops Plans for F-35 Citing U.S. Political Uncertainty The recent shift in U.S. policy toward NATO has led the Portuguese Defense Minister to deem a potential F-35 procurement unlikely. In an interview with

This is a good, accurate and properly contextualised account of the comments by Portugal’s defence minister on the country
F-35 plans.
theaviationist.com/2025/03/13/p...

@justsand.bsky.social and I try to answer the question: how many lives saved by US foreign assistance each year. Best estimate: 3.3 million.

www.cgdev.org/blog/how-man...

DOGE Picked a Bad Time The potential for catastrophic risk has never been greater. Musk is making it worse.

The world is more dangerous than ever before, laced with catastrophic and existential risk. Musk and DOGE mistake government resilience for “waste.” We’re soon going to find out the hard way how foolish it is to court catastrophic risk. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

If you don't believe in civil liberties for people you dislike, you don't believe in civil liberties.

Tuberculosis Doesn’t Respect Borders—US Aid Cuts Could Fuel a Global Health Crisis Reducing access to vital treatments against drug-resistant TB will likely pose huge risks for everyone, including Americans. The 90-day freeze on most aid while this assessment is carried out causes…

With tuberculosis (TB) cases in the U.S. already increasing by more than 15% a year, @mcdonnell.bsky.social warns that the pause on foreign aid could drive increased resistance to TB drugs.💊

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