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Jennifer Lopez performs with her mother, Guadalupe Rodríguez, at “Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World” on Sunday, May 2, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif.
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Ben Affleck and Jimmy Kimmel speak at “Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World” on Sunday, May 2, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif.
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Jennifer Lopez performs at “Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World” on Sunday, May 2, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif.
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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, speaks at “Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World” on Sunday, May 2, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif.
SLR: The CIA has gone woke, or have they?
A recent YouTube video by the CIA, titled, ‘Humans of CIA’, features a female Latina officer talking about being ‘unapologetically herself’ in an environment previously dominated by white males. Simon Lincoln Reader discusses the video as a ‘cheapening’ of important messages and values. “This is not about rights or transparency. These organisations have no real interest in going woke; they profit from division.” – Claire Badenhorst
Mi6 and the CIA have gone woke. It’s over.
By Simon Lincoln Reader
When I wrote some time ago that the new James Bond film would feature a 007 that had traded his Crockett & Jones’ Oxfords in for a pair of Balenciaga triple-chunky white sneakers and a septum ring, I was being only half-serious. But in 2021, it turns out reality has trumped all fiction with both Mi6 and now the CIA announcing that they have gone consciously, turbo-campus pronouned woke.
The Biden administration inherited a set of foreign policy and national security institutions in serious need of repair. An overreliance on the military combined with emerging challenges that the existing infrastructure is ill-suited to address has showcased the need to shift away from an approach that defines American national interests primarily as security from foreign threats. The need for rebalancing the U.S. approach to national security was made even more clear by the January 6 insurrection, in which pro-Trump extremists violently stormed the U.S. Capitol. Consistent with CAP’s recommendations, the Biden administration has taken a number of steps to repair trust in these institutions and recalibrate the U.S. approach to national security, including: