Tag: war

• 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 ›

• ‘I Could Solve Most of Your Problems’: Eric Schmidt’s Pentagon Offensive

  May 2, 2020

  In July 2016, Raymond Thomas, a four-star general and head of the U.S. Special Operations Command, hosted a guest: Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google. General Thomas, who served in… 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 ›

• He Was One of Mexico’s Deadliest Assassins. Then He Turned on His Cartel.

  December 14, 2019

  JOJUTLA, Mexico — The recruits filed into a clearing, where a group of trainers with the stern bearing of drill sergeants stood in a tight row, hiding something. The trainers… more ›

• December 14, 2019

  https://www.nytimes.com/video/technology/100000006082083/lethal-autonomous-weapons.html more ›

• Back to the border of misery: Amexica revisited 10 years on

  December 8, 2019

  If you drink the water in Ciudad Juárez, there you’ll stay, goes the saying – Se toma agua de Juárez, allí se queda. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/08/amexica-revisited-ed-vulliamy-returns-to-us-mexico-borderline more ›

• The Navy wants lasers to shoot down drones and missiles, but its ships lack the power to fire them

  December 8, 2019

  The Navy is scared to death that rival countries like China, Russia and Iran might sink its multibillion dollar surface ships with powerful cruise missiles and waves of cheap drones.… more ›

• Documenting American segregation at the Berlin Wall

  November 9, 2019

  On August 13, 1961, East German forces closed the borders of East Berlin and encircled the allied sectors of the city’s western half. Two weeks later, American photographer Leonard Freed… more ›