Tag: deviant globalization

• The Global Fertility Trade: A Story of Extraction, Exploitation and Opportunity

  January 2, 2025

  The human egg is a precious resource, exchanged in markets open, gray or black. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-fertility-egg-trade/ more ›

• August 30, 2024

  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01596306.2024.2335005#abstract more ›

• August 30, 2024

  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.13129 more ›

• The ultra-violent cult that became a global mafia

  August 28, 2024

  BBCA two-year BBC investigation into Black Axe – a Nigerian student fraternity which evolved into a dreaded mafia-group – has unearthed new evidence of infiltration of politics, and a scamming… more ›

• Netherlands: The children of a country held hostage by drug trafficking

  July 28, 2024

  On the edges of society, adolescents navigate the mafias that recruit them and the efforts of police officers, social workers and the few politicians who try to keep them on… more ›

• Airports, Student Aid Services Struck by Indonesian Cyber Attack

  July 1, 2024

  Indonesia’s parliament called the government to task over another cyber attack that led to airport and scholarship services being put out of service. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-28/airports-to-scholarships-crippled-in-indonesian-cyber-attack more ›

• June 17, 2024

  https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/kenya-content-moderators/?s=09 more ›

• ‘The cocaine superhighway’: how death and destruction mark drug’s path from South America to Europe

  June 13, 2024

  The submerged section of the ‘iceberg’ shows a man being searched by police, labelled packets of cocaine from a seizure and a customs official searching a box of bananas for… more ›

• The New Scramble for Africa: Land Acquisitions, Modern Imperialism, and the Role of the UAE

  June 9, 2024

  When I visited my home country, Sudan, back in 2011, I began to notice a massive shift. https://medium.com/@taisalih/the-new-scramble-for-africa-land-acquisitions-modern-imperialism-and-the-role-of-the-uae-d8e4505f5fd6 more ›

• The Dangerous Myth of Deglobalization

  June 5, 2024

  A consensus is emerging that the world is cleaving into blocs—not only geopolitically but economically, too. In 2020, the economist Douglas Irwin wrote that “the COVID-19 pandemic is driving the… more ›