Tag: global flows
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Marcelliano Reitz, lean and toothless, rolls up his sleeve. The sun is setting behind the world-famous silhouette of Table Mountain. A plane on its way to Cape Town’s international airport… more ›
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Around 3 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2015, Laura and Jason Henke awoke with a start at their home in Minot, N.D. Their dog was barking wildly. At the door,… more ›
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First came a destabilization campaign in Moldova, followed by the poisoning of an arms dealer in Bulgaria and then a thwarted coup in Montenegro. Last year, there was an attempt… more ›
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The winter after Donald Trump was elected president, strangers began appearing in a parking lot on southern Washington State’s Long Beach Peninsula, at the port where the oyster boats come… more ›
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“A crop that can be grown in any warm, damp environment, tobacco can be farmed on all the continents except Antarctica. With this accessibility among other forces, the industry is… more ›
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During the second world war intelligence officers from Britain and the US would crouch over bulky radio transmitters listening in on crackling enemy exchanges. In the years since then, communications… more ›
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The densely populated community of Bukom in Ghana’s capital is inhabited by fishermen. But fishing is not Bukom’s only export. The local gym is also cultivating some of Africa’s finest… more ›
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Names marked with an asterisk* have been changed to protect identities. It is usually quiet, cut off from the bustle of the commercial and cultural hub. https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/fun-street-drug-afghanistan-190721101125139.html more ›
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TOM LINTON, chief procurement and supply-chain officer at Flex, an American contract-manufacturing giant, has his finger on The Pulse. That is the name of his firm’s whizzy command centre in… more ›