Tag: deviant globalization

• Hot Money: Who Rules Porn?

  December 4, 2023

  When Financial Times reporter Patricia Nilsson started digging into the porn industry, she made a shocking discovery: Nobody knew who controlled the biggest porn company in the world. Now, Nilsson… more ›

• December 3, 2023

  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-12-01/climate-change-in-ivory-coast-and-ghana-makes-chocolate-expensive-everywhere?sref=KkPzpZvz more ›

• Criminal Leviathans

  November 16, 2023

  What happens when state repression strengthens the very criminal groups it aims to constrain? Under mass incarceration, sophisticated prison gangs have learned not only to organize inmate populations, but to… more ›

• Brazil: Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC)

  November 16, 2023

  The Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), which means the First Capital Command, is a Brazilian gang that operates from within the São Paulo state penitentiary system by means of cell… more ›

• ‘The tsunami just keeps coming’: Europe’s growing cocaine market

  November 15, 2023

  Squeezed between the two channels of France’s biggest container port is a warren of narrow alleyways, blowsy 1950s bungalows and – along a windblown high road – a disheartening parade… more ›

• How a Brazilian prison gang became an international criminal leviathan

  November 11, 2023

  In a forest clearing deep in the Brazilian Amazon, a bullet-scarred Venezuelan gangster sat smoking Colombian skunk. While his sidekicks mingled under the ice-cream bean tree where they sell crack,… more ›

• I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory

  March 26, 2023

  By revenue, TSMC is the largest semiconductor company in the world. In 2020 it quietly joined the world’s 10 most valuable companies. It’s now bigger than Meta and Exxon. The… more ›

• Hunger

  September 25, 2022

  Power cuts. Fuel queues. Popular uprising. A historic and crisis-ridden year in Sri Lanka is drawing to a close. For many, the battles are just beginning. According to a UNICEF… more ›

• Russia’s Secret Gem Sales Are Dividing the Diamond World

  September 17, 2022

  As Russian supplies divide the diamond world, much of the tension is focused in the “midstream,” a vast network of mostly family-owned businesses that cut, polish and trade the world’s… more ›

• China’s decline may be looming. Here’s how the U.S. can win, if it so chooses.

  August 21, 2022

  Today’s fatalism about China is the fallacious assumption that its trajectory is inevitably upward, so it must be accommodated. Demographics tell a different story. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/17/how-united-states-beats-china/ more ›