Our monthly global review podcast looks at the state of the chaos around the world during the preceding month. Our May Global Review podcast begins with a look at the growing financial crisis. While the debt ceiling debates are featured in most media outlets that is only the most obvious front of growing economic upheaval. While the Ukraine and Russia go to new levels of conflict in the ongoing war there, tensions between China and the west continue to escalate. New reports on the humanitarian front this month showed excecutions, slavery, and internal diplacements increasing around the world. The extreme weather of climate change that has marked the first five months of the year is now becoming a new normal with no end in sight. And then of course there is the rising alarms related to artificial intelligence.
All of this and more is discussed in this May Global Review podcast as we track the growing chaos around the world.
Links to the stories, reports, and issues mentioned in this May Global Review podcast episode:
- Experts in AI Are Warning It Poses A “Risk of extinction” Akin to Nuclear War
- Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain implant firm cleared for human trials
Geopolitics
- Drone Strike in Moscow Brings Ukraine War Home to Russians
- What’s Behind the Rising Tensions in Kosovo
- Israel launches deadly air raid on Aleppo airport
- Israel kills 30 Palestinians in Gaza as violence escalates
- In Zaporizhzhia and Other Occupied Areas, Evacuation Orders Sow Confusion
- French parliament designates Wagner a ‘terrorist group’
- Microsoft says China-sponsored hackers targeted infrastructure
- Suspected Chinese hackers spied on gov’ts, NGOs, media
Disease
- China Eyes Potential COVID-19 Wave Peaking at 65 Million Weekly Cases Next Month
- Peru battles record dengue outbreak, in a warning for a warming world
- Experts See Lessons for Next Pandemic as Covid Emergency Comes to an End
- New data indicates declining confidence in childhood vaccines of up to 44 percentage points in some countries during the COVID-19 pandemic
- South Africans blame gov’t as cholera outbreak kills 15
- UN Warns of Cross Border Cholera Spread in Ethiopia
- The State of Mental Health in America
- Youth Risk Behavior Survey
- Climate Change
- Water War Brings Iran Into Conflict With Taliban
- Global Rice Shortage And How This Agriculture Stock Could Make An Impact
- Plastic Pollution and Flood Risk
- Disappearing lakes, dead crops and trucked-in water: Drought-stricken Spain is running dry
- Plastic Waste Puts Millions of the World’s Poor at Risk
- Vietnam records highest-ever temperature of 44.1C
- Pyrenees’ drought is officially a ‘crisis’ with dried-up rivers and water restrictions
- Severe drought spreads in Portugal, officials seek EU help
- Over 5,500 still missing in flood-hit east Congo: local official
- Cyclone Mocha Strikes Myanmar
- ‘A New Spike’ in Global Temperatures in the Forecast
- ‘Like Nagasaki’: devastating wildfires will only get worse, new book warns
Humanitarian
- Millions of Somalis uprooted due to conflicts and climate change
- The Horn of Africa Crisis
- Sudan refugee response will need $445 million for rising numbers fleeing Sudan
- Egypt defers payments for wheat imports amid dollar crunch
- Death Penalty 2022
- Internal Displacement Reached All Time High in 2022
- Understanding Modern Slavery
- Kenya cult: Children targeted to die first, pastor says
Social Unrest
- Civil unrest in Africa soars to six-year high
- Ex-PM Imran Khan calls for ‘freedom’ protests across Pakistan
- Pakistan faces a food crisis like a country at war
- Violence erupts during French May Day protests
- Toll of northeast India clashes now 60 dead, 35K displaced
- Ethnic clashes continue in India’s Manipur despite army presence