Tag: twin insurgency

• 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 ›

• Nayarit and the Making of a Narco State

  November 29, 2020

  Nayarit rarely makes the headlines in Mexico, far less in the rest of the world. But this fall, the arrest of Mexico’s former secretary of defense, General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda,… more ›

• Tom Burgis: ‘The rise of kleptocrats fueled by destablising the truth on social media

  September 20, 2020

  How can African nations stop the looting of their natural wealth by rogue politicians and an international band of financial predators? How do you join the dots between illegal gold-mining… more ›

• The Twin Insurgency

  August 24, 2020

  The postmodern state is under siege from plutocrats and criminals who unknowingly compound each other’s insidiousness. States within the global political economy today face a twin insurgency, one from below,… more ›

• Facebook Discovers Fakes That Show Evolution of Disinformation

  December 22, 2019

  Researchers said the profiles, linked to the Epoch Media Group, used photos generated by artificial intelligence in a preview of an “eerie, tech-enabled future of disinformation. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/business/facebook-ai-generated-profiles.html more ›

• What Insurgency Will Look Like in 2030

  May 5, 2019

  Robots, artificial intelligence, cyberwar, 3D printing, bio-enhancements, and a new geopolitical competition; the 21st century is being shaped by a range of momentous, and scary, new trends and technologies. We… more ›

• How Hungary and Poland have silenced women and…

  May 26, 2018

  How Hungary and Poland have silenced women and stifled human rights » In the women’s movement in Central Europe, there are few moments to celebrate. Polish women successfully preventing a… more ›

• When we learn that companies like Microsoft,…

  November 23, 2017

  “When we learn that companies like Microsoft, Google or Apple have offshore accounts – and yet neither their image nor stock prices are affected – it leads to the legitimization… more ›

• The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump…

  March 24, 2017

  The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency » Last month, when President Donald Trump toured a Boeing aircraft plant in North Charleston, South Carolina, he saw a familiar face… more ›

• Donald J. Trump and the Deep State, Part 1

  February 11, 2017

  Donald J. Trump and the Deep State, Part 1 » When the uninitiated think of the “Deep State,” they tend to imagine a group of men getting together in a… more ›