Anti-globalization movement
Worldwide political movement against multinational corporations
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| April 2025 | Scheduled to perform the Hamlet stage production with reworked Hail to the Thief music at Aviva Studios, Manchester. |
| March 2025 | Miyazaki's previous criticisms of AI resurfaced after ChatGPT was updated to produce works resembling Studio Ghibli's style, sparking renewed debate about technological ethics in art. |
| 2025 | Thom Yorke releases collaborative album 'Tall Tales' with electronic musician Mark Pritchard. |
| January 2025 | Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by United States President Joe Biden. |
| 2024 | Joseph Stiglitz published 'The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society', a critical examination of neoliberal economic theories by Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek, which explores the potential impacts of information production in the age of artificial intelligence. |
| 2024 | Signed a statement with 10,500 creative professionals warning against unlicensed use of creative work in AI training. |
| 2024 | Named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine for the second time. |
| 2024 | Miyazaki acknowledged the 'terrible things' Japan committed against the Philippines during the war. |
| 2024 | Honored on Gold House's Most Impactful Asians A100 list. |
| 2024 | Received the Ramon Magsaysay Award. |
| November 2024 | Yorke produced 'Stepdaughter', a song written and performed by his wife Dajana Roncione for the Italian film Eterno Visionario. |
| October 2024 | Yorke began a solo tour of New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Japan, performing songs from across his career. |
| October 2024 | During a solo concert in Melbourne, Yorke was heckled by a pro-Palestinian protester criticizing his lack of condemnation for Israel's attacks on Gaza. Yorke challenged the protester, briefly left the stage, then returned to perform 'Karma Police'. |
| October 2024 | Signed an open letter with thousands of other writers pledging to boycott Israeli cultural institutions. |
| October 10 2024 | Shared the 2024 PEN Pinter Prize by naming imprisoned British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah as the 'writer of courage', announced at a ceremony at the British Library. |
| September 2024 | Yorke announced he will rework the Radiohead album Hail to the Thief for a stage production of Hamlet, to be directed by Christine Jones and Steven Hoggett. |
| August 2024 | Shared the Disturbing the Peace Award with Toomaj Salehi, a recognition for courageous writers at risk from the Vaclav Havel Center. |
| June 2024 | Spearheaded an open letter signed by 16 Nobel Prize in Economics laureates arguing against Donald Trump's fiscal and trade policies and efforts to limit the Federal Reserve's independence. |
| June 2024 | Chomsky was discharged from the hospital to continue recovery at home. In the same month, false reports of his death circulated on social media, leading to retracted obituaries. |
| June 2024 | Announced as winner of the annual PEN Pinter Prize by English PEN, recognizing her fierce intellectual determination in telling stories of injustice. |
| June 2024 | The UAPA (Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act) was invoked against Roy in connection with her previous Kashmir-related statements. |
| June 13 2024 | Won the inaugural Women's Prize for Non-Fiction for her book 'Doppelganger'. |
| May 9 2024 | Yorke and Mark Pritchard are set to release their collaborative album 'Tall Tales' through Warp Records. |
| April 26 2024 | The full Confidenza film soundtrack was released, composed by Yorke and featuring the London Contemporary Orchestra and a jazz ensemble. |
| April 23 2024 | Klein spoke at a 'Seder in the Streets' event near Senator Chuck Schumer's residence, drawing parallels between the Exodus story and her critique of Zionism, describing it as a 'false idol' used for 'colonial land theft'. |
| April 22 2024 | Yorke released two tracks from the Confidenza film soundtrack, 'Knife Edge' and 'Prize Giving'. |
| March 11 2024 | Second single 'This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice' released from the Tall Tales album. |
| February 13 2024 | First single 'Back in the Game' released from the Tall Tales album. |
| February 13 2024 | Yorke collaborated with Mark Pritchard on the single 'Back in the Game'. |
| 2023 | Received the Amnesty International Philippines' 'Most Distinguished Defender of Human Rights' award. |
| 2023 | An extinct stingray species was named Dasyomyliobatis thomyorkei in Yorke's honour. |
| 2023 | Thom Yorke served as executive producer for Clark's album 'Sus Dog'. |
| 2023 | Rolling Stone updated their greatest singers list, ranking Yorke 34th and praising his 'genuine edge of alienation'. Yorke also noted that his vocal range had dropped with age, making it difficult to sing earlier songs like 'Creep'. |
| 2023 | Studio Ghibli continued searching for a successor to lead the studio, with Miyazaki's son Goro declining the position among other candidates considered. |
| 2023 | 'Doppelganger' was featured in The Guardian's Best Ideas Books of 2023. |
| December 2023 | George Soros was swatted during a period of harassment targeting political figures. |
| December 2023 | Israel's UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan accused Soros of supporting pro-Palestinian organizations, which Soros's son Alexander dismissed as 'distorted and dishonest right-wing attacks'. |
| December 2023 | Spoke out against Israel's bombing campaign in Gaza, stating that silence makes one complicit in the 'brazen slaughter of Palestinians'. |
| October 2023 | Klein wrote commentary in the context of the Israel-Hamas war. |
| October 2023 | Studio Ghibli became a subsidiary of Nippon Television Holdings, with Miyazaki appointed as honorary chairman. |
| September 2023 | Yorke and Donwood exhibited a selection of artwork, The Crow Flies, in London, featuring paintings based on Islamic pirate maps and 1960s US military topographic charts. |
| September 2023 | Released her memoir and social critique 'Doppelganger', which explores her experiences being chronically confused with Naomi Wolf and examines societal political fractures. |
| September 12 2023 | Delivered a lecture in Lausanne upon receiving the 45th European Essay Prize, highlighting her intellectual contributions. |
| June 2023 | Suffered a stroke and moved to Brazil full-time. |
| February 2023 | George Soros publicly criticized Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of Islamophobia, cronyism, and authoritarianism. He specifically noted that Modi's rise was partly fueled by inciting violence against Muslims. |
| January 2023 | The Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 10 entered a not guilty plea for Bello after he refused to enter a plea to a charge against him. |
| 2022 | Laban ng Masa coalition launched a campaign to collect 300,000 signatures to encourage Bello to run for president, seeking to promote a platform focused on supporting the poor and marginalized Filipinos. |
| 2022 | Soros becomes the largest donor in the United States, contributing $128.5 million to support the Democratic Party in the election cycle. |
| 2022 | Yorke wrote two songs, '5.17' and 'That's How Horses Are', for the sixth series of the television drama Peaky Blinders. |
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