Propaganda Made in China
The event produced no human casualties, although there may have been some dead cows. I remember the smoke from Israeli artillery rising over Mount Hebron.
The Outpost
reporting from the outskirts of the Empire
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Read 2 days ago and current, but nothing has been published for 3 years.
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Warrior, Soldier, Noob: a short reflection on war porn and shark attacks
Tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) are a species of what zoologists refer to as carcharhiniformes, which comes from the Greek κάρχαρος (karcharos, sharp or jagged), and ῥί̄νη (rhinē, rasp). This is allegedly a reference to the rasp-like texture of their skin, which despite looking smooth is actually very rough.
Bandung a Sea of Fire: un-aligning the periphery
I spent the better part of Summer 2013 as an exchange student in the city of Bandung, in Indonesia.
What happened to National Geographic?
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Nigerian prostitution rings, on how to live a certain way
At the beginning of this year I found myself in Lagos, Nigeria, on an urgent, flash business trip.
A slightly better form of metonymy
An almost inevitable defect of geopolitical discourse consists in expressing arguments in terms of a state’s interests.
Mercenaries as lean recruitment: lessons from the Toyota Production System
Toyoda Automatic Loom Works was an engineering manufacturing company established in the 1920s by Sakichi Toyoda (1967-1930), the son of a successful carpenter hailing from Shizuoka prefecture, in Japan’s Eastern Coast.
What's in a name?
A rose is a rose, and a frontier is a frontier
Playing chicken in Africa
Is NATO back in the game?