Tag: war

• 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 ›

• Bloody Tijuana: a week in the life of Mexico’s murderous border city

  November 4, 2019

  In a country with nearly 100 murders a day President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has vowed to tackle the social roots of crime but change is slow to come This… more ›

• AI and the Future of Warfare

  October 27, 2019

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• Top Secret Russian Unit Seeks to Destabilize Europe, Security Officials Say

  October 8, 2019

  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 ›

• How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age

  October 3, 2019

  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 ›

• Gems, Warlords and Mercenaries: Russia’s Playbook in Central African Republic

  September 30, 2019

  BANGUI, Central African Republic — The dealer pulled back a shiny pink curtain and sprinkled the contents of two white envelopes across his desk: sparkling diamonds, more than 100 of… more ›

• Yemen war: 5 years since the Houthis’ Sanaa takeover

  September 28, 2019

  On September 21, 2014, Yemen’s Houthi rebels took control of the capital, Sanaa, following a rapid advance south from their northern stronghold of Saada after weeks of anti-government protests. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/yemen-war-5-years-houthis-sanaa-takeover-190921070639516.html more ›

• The Secret War Machine

  September 25, 2019

  The missing link between the Contras and al Qaeda. It may come as a shock that Vice Admiral John Poindexter has popped up as a visionary cyberguru for Darpa. Until… more ›