Month: November 2023
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The Kingpin Who Kidnapped Migrants for Ransom | The New Yorker
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The Kingpin Who Kidnapped Migrants for Ransom An Eritrean trafficker promised to help Africans desperate to reach Europe—then brutalized them inside a Libyan compound while extorting their families back home. With his fortune, he partied in Dubai. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/13/the-kingpin-who-kidnapped-migrants-for-ransom The boss warned his captives, “It’s going to cost me about ten dinars”—seven…
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A Secret War, Strange New Wounds and Silence From the Pentagon – The New York Times
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A Secret War, Strange New Wounds and Silence From the Pentagon Many U.S. troops who fired vast numbers of artillery rounds against the Islamic State developed mysterious, life-shattering mental and physical problems. But the military struggled to understand what was wrong. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/us/us-army-marines-artillery-isis-pentagon.html More than half the Marines in the battery had eventually received diagnoses…
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In the Middle East, Despair Is Not an Option | The New Yorker
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In the Middle East, Despair Is Not an Option A source of inspiration is that era of history, not so distant, when leaders and movements, for all their flaws and failures, agreed to agree. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/13/israel-gaza-hamas-war In an era of darkness and blood, it is nearly impossible to remember that, from Moscow…
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Not All of America’s National-Security Threats Are Overseas | The New Yorker
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Not All of America’s National-Security Threats Are Overseas Congress’s foreign-aid follies with Israel and Ukraine, and the fear of Trump in 2024. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/not-all-of-americas-national-security-threats-are-overseas Nine days ago, the idea that an obscure 2020 election denier from Shreveport, Louisiana, with less than five thousand dollars in his household’s bank accounts, a literalist’s belief…