LBTY - Liberty Through Change, Awareness, and Innovation
20 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLBTY is a community driven investigative, informative and educational den.social exclusive magazine, covering socioeconomic and international affairs. LBTY Lair subscribers write and debate on topics and can share their preferred solutions based on opinions or expertise. Political science, global affairs, international relations, global socioeconomic catastrophes. Right for revolution, individual liberty, freedom, sovereignty, equality, and inclusion. Brought to you through education, information and awareness. In need of solutions through change and innovation. https://den.social/l/lbty
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The GameStop Fiasco
April 15, 2021 08:00 - 11 minutes - 4.02 MBGameStop, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Grapevine, Texas, is a digital-first omni-channel retailer, offering games and entertainment products in over 5,000 brick-and-mortar stores and a comprehensive e-commerce property set across 10 countries. GameStop was also the center of attention for the beginning of 2021 as the media called focused on $GME (GameStop’s stock) through its meteoric rise from $4 a share to over $400 a share, ranging widely between those two numbers and ultimately...
Why Cancel Culture Doesn't Cancel Everything
April 14, 2021 09:00 - 8 minutes - 2.88 MBRead and comment on Charles - smokiecow's LBTY contribution on Den, a blockchain based social media platform with crypto rewards for creators: https://den.social/l/lbty/FwCU0eppVR/why-cancel-culture-doesn-t-cancel-everything/ Follow Charles - smokiecow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/smokie_cow If you are interested in purchasing the art for this story in the form of an NFT, it will be sold on OpenSea: https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/84226007704206171...
Russia’s Eurovision Contestant Manizha Refuses To Be Broken By Xenophobia And Misogyny
April 13, 2021 15:00 - 5 minutes - 1.88 MBThe Eurovision Song Contest has been an annual presentation and competition of national songs since May 24, 1956 and is broadcasted on television throughout Europe. Since 1967 the festival has also been broadcasted in countries outside of Europe. Furthermore, the festival can be followed live on the internet every year by anyone. The contest is spread over three nights over a week-long period with two semi finals and one grand finale. All the participating countries have their own national s...
Kashmir: The Never Ending Territorial Dispute?
January 30, 2021 14:00 - 9 minutes - 2.13 MBSubscribe to the LBTY Lair on Den: https://den.social/l/lbty Read and comment on the story on LBTY: https://den.social/l/lbty/OThE877pSJ/kashmir-the-never-ending-territorial-dispute/ The sub-continent, formerly known as British-India, was colonized by the British for nearly two hundred years. In 1947, when colonization ended and the British left the sub-continent (part of South Asia), two new countries, India and Pakistan, were created on the basis of religion. Kashmir, which was a princel...
The Afghanistan Conflict And Prospects Of Peace
January 29, 2021 20:00 - 7 minutes - 2.4 MBSubscribe to the LBTY Lair on Den: https://den.social/l/lbty Read and comment on the story on LBTY: https://den.social/l/lbty/jd6me9iDb9/the-afghanistan-conflict-and-prospects-of-peace/ Hillary Rodham Clinton, in her book Hard Choices, called Afghanistan a wicked problem that is neither abating nor ending. Afghanistan was under the iron rule of the Taliban when Al-Qaeda attacked US embassies in East Africa in 1998. In response to this the Clinton administration launched an attack using cru...
President Joe Biden And The Return Of America's Multilateralism
January 28, 2021 18:00 - 6 minutes - 1.98 MBSubscribe to the LBTY Lair on Den: https://den.social/l/lbty Read and comment on the story on LBTY: https://den.social/l/lbty/5mfBkfcDbb/president-joe-biden-and-the-return-of-america-s-multilateralism/ During the tumultuous and unconventional presidential tenure of Donald Trump multilateralism – the principle of three or more parties participating in or agreeing upon something – came under severe attack. Many unilateral executive orders were recklessly signed by Trump without any regard fo...
Big Tech Censorship And Overcoming Social Media Dependence
January 26, 2021 12:00 - 6 minutes - 2.31 MBSubscribe to the LBTY Lair on Den: https://den.social/l/lbty Read and comment on the story on LBTY: https://den.social/l/lbty/XA2OvuNiuM/big-tech-censorship-and-overcoming-social-media-dependence/ Our generation is living in one of the biggest technological revolutions of all time. This revolution of technological advancement is so abundant, familiar, and well-known that describing it too much would be redundant, to the point of boredom. The Information Age has completely shifted the entir...
Perilous Flaws In The United Nations And Its Impact
January 22, 2021 10:00 - 6 minutes - 2.19 MBSubscribe to the LBTY Lair on Den: https://den.social/l/lbty Read and comment on the story on LBTY: https://den.social/l/lbty/zRJre9o8GU/perilous-flaws-in-the-united-nations-and-its-impact/ One of the finest manifestations of human political consciousness is the creation of the United Nations (UN). It was created to prevent wars and bring tranquility to the world and enhance the integration of the world. However, a number of UN-mandated aspirations are still unfulfilled. Even after its cre...
South Africa and the Vaccination Problems During the Covid-19 Pandemic
January 19, 2021 13:00 - 6 minutes - 2.1 MBSubscribe to the LBTY Lair on Den: https://den.social/l/lbty Read and comment on the story on LBTY: https://den.social/l/lbty/BbkL1qf6Dc/a-rigged-election-in-belarus-keeping-lukashenko-in-place/ South Africa is grappling with the largest outbreak of pandemic despite promising results arising from successful trials and worldwide acceptability of the COVID-19 vaccine. Recently, South Africa has announced it will inoculate its citizens with COVID-19 doses. The country has hardly managed to se...
A Rigged Election In Belarus Keeping Lukashenko In Place
January 17, 2021 15:00 - 6 minutes - 2.23 MBSubscribe to the LBTY Lair on Den: https://den.social/l/lbty Read and comment on the story on LBTY: https://den.social/l/lbty/BbkL1qf6Dc/a-rigged-election-in-belarus-keeping-lukashenko-in-place/ In 2020, demonstrators took to the streets in major Belarusian cities, including the capital, Minsk. Authorities had recently clamped down on large gatherings, so protest leaders encouraged their support base to convene in smaller groups at designated meeting points (Al Jazeera). The many thousands...
Stateless Rohingyas Of Myanmar In Never Ending Crisis
January 14, 2021 13:00 - 5 minutes - 1.97 MBSubscribe to the LBTY Lair on Den: https://den.social/l/lbty Read and comment on the story on LBTY: https://den.social/l/lbty/sRnVD6rRDu/stateless-rohingyas-of-myanmar-in-never-ending-crisis/ In contemporary times, the Rohingya crisis is one of the largest humanitarian disasters. Over one million ethnic Rohingyas live in the restive Rakhine state of Myanmar. They are bearing the brunt of prolonged warfare and persecution. They have faced decades of religious discrimination, hatred, and tar...
Diplomatic Relations Between The United States of America and Russia
January 11, 2021 14:00 - 8 minutes - 2.81 MBSubscribe to the LBTY Lair on Den: https://den.social/l/lbty Read and comment on the story on LBTY: https://den.social/l/lbty/vZosl5RruW/ongoing-political-instability-and-ethnically-motivated-conflicts-in-ethiopia/ When the sanguinary battles and conflicts of World War II came to an end on May 8, 1945, a tenuous and tedious relationship between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics began. That relationship — negligible from its onset — strained even more over the ne...
The Suffering and Deaths from 'Indirect Causes' in Yemen
January 08, 2021 12:00 - 5 minutes - 2.01 MBSubscribe to the LBTY Lair on Den: https://den.social/l/lbty Read and comment on the story on LBTY: https://den.social/l/lbty/vZosl5RruW/ongoing-political-instability-and-ethnically-motivated-conflicts-in-ethiopia/ Yemen is already one of the poorest Arab countries and, unlike other Arab states like Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Kuwait, it lacks the ability to flaunt or influence global and regional politics. According to UN data, Yemen has a population of roughly 30 million. Yemen has been in th...
The political and ethnical conflict in Tigray and Ethiopia
January 06, 2021 12:00 - 9 minutes - 6.39 MBSubscribe to the LBTY Lair on Den: https://den.social/l/lbty Read and comment on the story on LBTY: https://den.social/l/lbty/vZosl5RruW/ongoing-political-instability-and-ethnically-motivated-conflicts-in-ethiopia/ Well over a month has passed since the Ethiopian military took control of Mekelle, the regional capital of Tigray, in the northernmost region of the country. Government forces have been engaged in a violent struggle with the dissident regional Tigray People's Liberation Front (T...
Happy New Liberty
January 01, 2021 13:00 - 5 minutes - 3.84 MBSubscribe to the LBTY Lair on Den: https://den.social/l/lbty Read, vote, and comment on this story: https://den.social/l/lbty/czerULJuMQ/happy-new-liberty/ 'Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty. Fewer and fewer people are remaining vigilant and I can’t help but worry as I see it slowly slip through our fingers. For when it’s gone, it’s gone' - BitBuyTheCoin The NFT artwork illustrates the story and the buyer supports more LBTY stories. The item is currently up for auction on OpenSea....
The Conflict Between Armenia and Azerbaijan In Nagorno-Karabakh
December 31, 2020 12:00 - 11 minutes - 7.76 MBSubscribe to the LBTY Lair on Den: https://den.social/l/lbty Read, vote, and comment on this story: https://den.social/l/lbty/AIaeLhwk3c/the-underexposed-conflict-in-nagorno-karabakh/ Towards the eastern outskirts of Europe lies the mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian enclave in southwestern Azerbaijan. The territory is culturally significant to both nations. So much so, that the neighboring states have been tussling over it for nearly three decades. The latter half ...
Japan’s Suicide Crisis, The Twitter Killer And Hikikomori
December 27, 2020 11:00 - 7 minutes - 5.26 MBSubscribe to the LBTY Lair on Den: https://den.social/l/lbty Read, vote, and comment on this story: https://den.social/l/lbty/tYFiYxA5d0/japan-s-suicide-crisis-the-twitter-killer-and-hikikomori/ On December 15, 2020 the 30-year-old Takahiro Shiraishi was sentenced to death for the murders of nine people in 2017. His victims? Depressed, lonely and suicidal women sharing their thoughts on Twitter. In Japan, more people died from suicide in October 2020 than from Covid in all of 2020. And ...
China’s Mistreatment Of The Uyghurs: ‘Re-Education Centers’ And Forced Labor
December 24, 2020 08:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBSince 2014, the Chinese government’s response to the potential threat of terrorism has seen a rapid escalation from drafting policy, to propaganda campaigns, and then to the extrajudicial detainment of over one million Turkic Muslims, mainly Uyghurs, in over 300 detainment or ‘re-education’ centers. A significant amount of evidence points to nothing less than a cultural genocide (although we use the term reservedly) which has been ongoing for at least five years, and this can no longer be as...
Welcome to Liberty - Extended
December 23, 2020 12:00 - 8 minutes - 5.76 MBGeneral information and an introduction to the direction of the Liberty Lair on Den. Get your account set up on Den and subscribe to the LBTY Lair to participate in the conversations. https://den.social/l/lbty Liberty delivers investigative, informative and educational articles covering socioeconomic and international affairs. Liberty Lair subscribers debate on the topics and can share their preferred solutions based on opinions or expertise. Political science, global affairs, inter...
Welcome to LBTY
December 20, 2020 11:00 - 1 minute - 740 KBLBTY delivers investigative, informative and educational articles covering socioeconomic and international affairs. LBTY Lair subscribers debate on the topics and can share their preferred solutions based on opinions or expertise. Join LBTY: https://den.social/l/lbty Political science, global affairs, international relations, global socioeconomic catastrophes. Right for revolution, individual liberty, freedom, sovereignty, equality, and inclusion. Brought to you through education, info...