Month: June 2022
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The (No Longer) Secret World of Surf Spots – The New York Times
The (No Longer) Secret World of Surf Spots Publicizing certain surf spots, especially ones off the beaten path, is similar to violating the first rule of Fight Club. Instagram and some new surfers have threatened that reverence. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/06/sports/secret-surf-spots.html “One of the reasons I was drawn to remote, wild places is I was so sick…
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Putin Ally Mines Gold and Plays Favorites in Sudan – The New York Times
‘From Russia With Love’: A Putin Ally Mines Gold and Plays Favorites in Sudan Backed by the Kremlin, the shadowy network known as the Wagner Group is getting rich in Sudan while helping the military to crush a democracy movement. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/world/africa/wagner-russia-sudan-gold-putin.html But Wagner is far more than a war machine in Africa, and a…
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How Russia’s Wagner Group Is Expanding in Africa – The New York Times
Putin’s Shadow Soldiers: How the Wagner Group Is Expanding in Africa Best known for its mercenaries, the Wagner Group also mines diamonds, spreads disinformation and props up autocrats in an effort to grow Russia’s footprint. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/world/africa/wagner-group-africa.html But Wagner is far more than a simple guns-for-gold scheme. Operating through a sprawling web of shell companies,…
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The faces from China’s Uyghur detention camps
The faces from China’s Uyghur detention camps Thousands of photos from a data hack of police files, reveal the human cost of China’s Uyghur detention system. via BBC News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/85qihtvw6e/the-faces-from-chinas-uyghur-detention-camps Thousands of photographs from the heart of China’s highly secretive system of mass incarceration in Xinjiang, as well as a shoot-to-kill policy for those who…
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Shootings, fires and an anti-tank missile: Peter R. de Vries and the battle to cover gangs in the Netherlands – Columbia Journalism Review
Shootings, fires, and an anti-tank missile: Peter R. de Vries and the battle to cover gangs in the Netherlands Nabil Bakkali, a thirty-year-old member of the Dutch-Moroccan mafia, was smoking hookah and playing pachisi with friends in a lounge in Utrecht in 2017 when a phone call interrupted their game. It was an associate of…