Month: October 2022
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Inside the U.S. Effort to Arm Ukraine | The New Yorker
Inside the U.S. Effort to Arm Ukraine Since the start of the Russian invasion, the Biden Administration has provided valuable intelligence and increasingly powerful weaponry—a risky choice that has paid off in the battle against Putin. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/24/inside-the-us-effort-to-arm-ukraine Reznikov is certain that such deliveries are inevitable. “When I was in D.C. in November,…
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Using Adoptions, Russia Turns Ukrainian Children Into Spoils of War – The New York Times
Using Adoptions, Russia Turns Ukrainian Children Into Spoils of War Thousands of Ukrainian children have been transferred to Russia. “I didn’t want to go,” one girl told The New York Times from a foster home near Moscow. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/22/world/europe/ukraine-children-russia-adoptions.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=World%20News “Our family is like a small Russia,” Ms. Druzhinina said in an interview. “Russia took in…
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Will the Saudis and Donald Trump Save Golf—or Wreck It? | The New Yorker
Will the Saudis and Donald Trump Save Golf—or Wreck It? High-level defections! Tiger Woods and Jared Kushner! Lawsuits and blacklists! Is the new LIV league a way to reward players, or the vanity project of a despot, or something else? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/24/will-the-saudis-and-donald-trump-save-golf-or-wreck-it To appeal to the Dubai-inclined, M.B.S. has lifted a ban…
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How Russian Action Movies Are Selling War – The New York Times
How Russian Action Movies Are Selling War For an American, it can be easy to forget how much ideology is packed into the genre — until you watch a film from elsewhere, and see their cartoonish heroes and villains. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/magazine/russian-action-movies.html Another is that “Granit” was just one artifact in a whole trove of content…
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Kyiv’s Peace Is Destroyed | The New Yorker
Kyiv’s Peace Is Destroyed After repelling Russia’s assault earlier this year, the city awakens to missile strikes. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/kyivs-peace-is-destroyed the woman, whose name was Oleksandra, was laughing. “She said that Halloween is coming up and she’s already putting on her scary costume,” the medic said. Then he explained that pieces of shrapnel…
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An American in Ukraine Finds the War He’s Been Searching For – The New York Times
An American in Ukraine Finds the War He’s Been Searching For For an unconventional former Marine colonel, Ukraine represents the morally just war that eluded him his entire career. But how much can he and his military start-up help? Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/world/europe/ukraine-war-americans.html Though Mr. Milburn is not involved in the actual fighting, he is constantly risking…
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The Mystery of the Headless Goats in the Chattahoochee | The New Yorker
The Mystery of the Headless Goats in the Chattahoochee Hundreds of decapitated goat carcasses have turned up in the river that runs through metro Atlanta. Are they evidence of animal sacrifice? Drug smuggling? Both? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-south/the-mystery-of-the-headless-goats-in-the-chattahoochee Ulseth had boated it a hundred times before. “But, this time,” he told me recently, “I…
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The Storykeeper: A Conversation with Svetlana Alexievich
Los Angeles Review of Books via Los Angeles Review of Books: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-storykeeper-a-conversation-with-svetlana-alexievich/ I think that war is a measure of human horror. It is the biggest kind of horror that humanity can experience. For example, what’s happening in Ukraine today is an incredible force working upon us. In the first months when I started to…
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That Time We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online | by Tim Cotten | Oct, 2022 | Cotten.IO
That Time We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online Ultima Online is celebrating its 25th anniversary! You know what that means, right? Story time! via Medium: https://blog.cotten.io/that-time-we-burned-down-players-houses-in-ultima-online-7e556618c8f0 Create a straw dummy labeled “An Effigy of a Traitor” to place in the middle of the burning rubble.
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Talk of ‘Civil War,’ Ignited by Mar-a-Lago Search, Is Flaring Online – The New York Times
After Mar-a-Lago Search, Talk of ‘Civil War’ Is Flaring Online Mentions in Twitter posts on the right have spiked during major political news events, and experts worry the overheated language will spread as the midterm elections draw near. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/05/us/politics/civil-war-social-media-trump.html In August, a single tweet stating “I think civil war has just been declared” managed…
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‘Putin Is a Fool’: Intercepted Calls Reveal Russian Army in Disarray – The New York Times
‘Putin Is a Fool’: Intercepted Calls Reveal Russian Army in Disarray In phone calls to friends and relatives at home, Russian soldiers gave damning insider accounts of battlefield failures and civilian executions, excoriating their leaders just weeks into the campaign to take Kyiv. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/28/world/europe/russian-soldiers-phone-calls-ukraine.html Russian soldiers made thousands of calls from the battlefield in…
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Did a Nobel Peace Laureate Stoke a Civil War? | The New Yorker
Did a Nobel Peace Laureate Stoke a Civil War? After Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, ended a decades-long border conflict, he was heralded as a unifier. Now critics accuse him of tearing the country apart. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/03/did-a-nobel-peace-laureate-stoke-a-civil-war In “Crabs in a Bucket,” a forthcoming book, the Somali author Nuruddin Farah likens Ethiopian politics to a…