Tag: deviant globalization

• Europe’s New Power Map, From ASML to the Arctic

  May 26, 2024

  When US officials wanted to pressure Europe to do more to stave off China’s technological advances, they didn’t call European Union headquarters in Brussels. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-15/europe-s-new-power-map-from-asml-to-the-arctic more ›

• Dubai Unlocked

  May 15, 2024

  With a reputation for financial secrecy, low taxes, and an ever-expanding spread of valuable real estate, the city is an appealing option for those looking to launder or hide cash.… more ›

• 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 ›