Tag: shadow wars

• The Global Implications of “Re-education” Technologies in Northwest China 

  June 16, 2020

  Since May 2014, when Chinese Communist Party Secretary Zhang Chunxian announced the People’s War on Terror in the Uighur region, Chinese technology firms have received billions of dollars in Chinese state capital to build… more ›

• The Trayvon Generation

  June 15, 2020

  This one was shot in his grandmother’s yard. This one was carrying a bag of Skittles. This one was playing with a toy gun in front of a gazebo. Black… more ›

• Exclusive: Obscure Indian cyber firm spied on politicians, investors worldwide

  June 10, 2020

  LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A little-known Indian IT firm offered its hacking services to help clients spy on more than 10,000 email accounts over a period of seven years. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-cyber-mercenaries-exclusive-idUSKBN23G1GQ more ›

• Penetrating Every Stage of Afghan Opium Chain, Taliban Become a Cartel

  May 26, 2020

  ZARANJ, Afghanistan — Shortly after sunrise, an Afghan special operations helicopter descended on two vehicles racing through the empty deserts of southern Afghanistan, traversing what has become a superhighway for… more ›

• How the Taliban Outlasted a Superpower: Tenacity and Carnage

  May 26, 2020

  The Taliban stand on the brink of realizing their most fervent desire: U.S. troops leaving Afghanistan. They have given up little of their extremist ideology to do it. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/world/asia/taliban-afghanistan-war.html more ›

• Coronavirus will reshape our cities – we just don’t know how yet

  May 22, 2020

  The development of cities has been by affected by disease for centuries, so what legacy will Covid-19 leave on urban life? Few residents of the world’s great metropolises would have… more ›

• ‘Instead of doctors, they send police to kill us’: locked-down Rio faces deadly raids

  May 18, 2020

  Maria Diva do Nascimento was worried as she set off for her job at one of Rio de Janeiro’s biggest hospitals wearing a face mask she hoped would keep her… more ›

• ‘You are still a soldier to me’: The forgotten African hero of Britain’s colonial army

  May 17, 2020

  In a crowded, Zambian slum on VE Day, a family gathered to bury one of the last veterans of Britain’s colonial army. Jaston Khosa of the Northern Rhodesia Regiment was… more ›

• Revolution to Riches

  April 11, 2020

  Venezuela’s National Bolivarian Armed Forces have been described as “impenetrable,” with very little about the country’s military publicly known — other than that it clearly plays a large role in… more ›

• IRA in Ghana: Double Deceit

  March 16, 2020

  Russian operation linked to former IRA associates employed social media users in Ghana to target black communities in the US On March 12, 2020, CNN, Twitter, Facebook, Graphika, and two… more ›