Must-reads 17 – 23 maart
Voor de laatste keer de must-reads op zaterdag in deze vorm. Vanaf volgende week wordt deze rubriek helemaal vernieuwd en nog actueler!
Voor de laatste keer de must-reads op zaterdag in deze vorm. Vanaf volgende week wordt deze rubriek helemaal vernieuwd en nog actueler!
The Guardian: Revealed: Pentagon’s link to Iraqi torture centres Forbes: Prince Alwaleed And The Curious Case Of Kingdom Holding Stock Radio Netherlands Worldwide: Ivorians Not Buying Into Government Youth Fund The New York Review Of Books: When The Jihad Came To Mali BBC World: Kenya Election: ‘Tech Hub’ Hopes Take Polling Day Blow New York Magazine: Back On The Trail Al Jazeera: Who Are #FreeArabs? The Times Of India: Cabinet Meet On Rape Soon New York Times: The Crime Of…
Archaeosoup: “These are not the ruins you’re looking for!” The archaeology of a galaxy far, far away? Outside: Sun Myung Moon’s Lost Eco-Utopia Design Observer: Head of the Dragon: The Rise of New Shanghai The Atlantic: Mali Conflict Enters New Phase The Independent: To make freelancing safer, young foreign journalists need more support and less sneering The Daily Beast: The GOP Rage Machine and Its Mainstream Apologists Slate: In Defense of Drones – They’re the worst form of war, except…
The Global Mail: It’s 2013, And They’re Burning ‘Witches’ Roads & Kingdoms: Pakistan’s Patty Kings The Economist: The country formerly known as Syria FT: Death in Singapore National Geographic: Return to River Town The Atlantic: A Ground-Level View of the U.S.’s Drone Campaign Foreign Affairs: Does France Have an Exit Strategy in Mali? Playboy: The Cold Arab Spring The Washington Post: Pope Benedict XVI’s leaked documents show fractured Vatican full of rivalries New Yorker: L’Étranger – Gérard Depardieu and France…
Bloomberg: A Chinese Hacker’s Identity Unmasked CIR: The Shooter – the man who shot Bin Laden (‘is screwed’) New Republic: Original Sin – Why the GOP is and will continue to be the party of white people London Review of Books: How to Start a Battalion (in Five Easy Lessons) – Ghaith Abdul-Ahad reports from Syria Foreign Policy: White Smoke – An insider’s guide to choosing the new pope Foreign Affairs: Pyongyang’s Nuclear Logic – Sometimes a Test is Just…
The Atlantic: Why Americans Hate the Media National Geographic: New Old Libya – For decades Libyans lived under a dictator who twisted their past. Now they must imagine their future Foreign Policy: Westward Ho! As America pivots east, China marches in the other direction Foreign Affairs: Sizzling South Sudan – Why Oil Is Not the Whole Story Time Magazine: Drone Home Foreign Policy: The End of the Latin American Left -Will Hugo Chávez’s revolution die with him? The Boston Globe:…
Rolling Stone: How the country’s biggest gun-rights group thwarts regulation and helps put military-grade weapons in the hands of killers The Lede: Vacation on Syria’s Front Lines Goes Wrong for Russian Judge The Star: Aarushi Talwar murder – Inside story of India’s most controversial trial British Journal of Photography: Ones to Watch – Jérôme Sessini Ahram Online: Egypt protesters come to aid of ransacked Intercontinental hotel Asian Times: A well-laid war in Myanmar Telegraph: Aleppo executions: 79 bodies pulled from…
Time: The Confessions of a Sniper: A Rebel Gunman in Aleppo and His Conscience Foreign policy: Mubarak with a Beard? The Global Mail: The Smartest Girls In The Room The Interdependent: Zaatari Refugee Camp Waits for Winter Gawker: Attention Men – If You Attack a Woman In Tahrir Square, You Might Get Your Ass Kicked, Finally Mother Jones: The Last Days of a Rebel-Held Hospital in Syria CJR: The rush to handicap 2016 – let’s not “Dr. Politics” advice—avoid horse-race…
The Global Mail: Syria’s Civil War Spills Over in Sydney RFI: Rape doctor Denis Mukwege wants to return to DRC despite murder attempt The Caravan: The Departed -The return home of Kashmir’s disillusioned militants BBC: Mali crisis focus for Clinton’s Algeria visit Hopscotch on the greenline: Bomaanslag verdeelt Libanese christenen Danger Room: The Kremlin’s New Internet Surveillance Plan Goes Live Today DMagazine: Naming the Dead at Ground Zero Der Spiegel: New Football League Helps Heal Afghanistan Guernica: The Monkeyman of…
GQ: Welcome to Camp Idontwantobama! Tammy Faye and I kibitz for a few minutes by the coolers. She tells me she’s from nearby Hershey, home of a pair of Hershey factories, land of chocolate-perfumed air. She loves volunteering because she loves kids, and as if to illustrate her point, she tells me about one of the camp sessions yesterday, when an instructor asked, “How do you get rid of a president who’s doing a bad job?” Here Tammy Faye giggles…