A line has been crossed. | The Signal Ep 6 . Should Southeast Asia be worried? . After the U.S. removed Venezuela’s leader and openly declared, “We’re going to be running it,” a line may have been crossed — one that forces countries far beyond the Western Hemisphere to pay attention. . On this week’s episode of #TheSignal, we sit down with William J. Jones, Assistant Professor at Mahidol University International College, what this moment means for Thailand and Southeast Asia. . Reported by Benja

#Coming_UP: The Standard Signal |Ep. 12 - Western Tigray and the Unraveling of Ethiopia’s Constitution. Part I Five years after the war in Tigray began, and three years after Pretoria, Western Tigray remains the clearest sign that Ethiopia’s war has not truly ended, it has merely changed form. In this episode of The Standard Signal, host Tsedale Lemma speaks with political analyst and War on Tigray author Daniel Berhane about how violence became an entrenched reality, why ethnic cleansing has pe

#Coming_UP: The Standard Signal | Ep. 11: Meles Zenawi’s Nightmare Revisited: GERD, Gulf Money, and the Unmaking of Sovereignty Fifteen years ago, Ethiopia’s late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi warned that his nightmare would be an “Egyptian agenda financed by Gulf money.” Today, that warning reads less like prophecy and more like diagnosis. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Ethiopia’s clearest symbol of sovereignty, is facing a coercive rhetoric from the U.S., and Gulf money, particularl