Tag: organised crime

Age of the ‘scam state’: how a multibillion-dollar industry has taken root in south-east Asia / Myanmar scam centres may hold 100,000 trafficked people

NB: The Myanmar military is responsible for this, and is complicit. And how should we describe Switzerland, the El Dorado of money laundering? Organised crime has many faces. Just look at America’s White House and Putin’s palaces. DS Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people Like the narco-state,… Read More Age of the ‘scam state’: how a multibillion-dollar industry has taken root in south-east Asia / Myanmar scam centres may hold 100,000 trafficked people

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Is this the End for Larry Summers at Harvard?

Just last month, Summers staged a demonstration against an installation by Harvard’s Palestine Solidarity Committee, The Harvard Crimson reported, calling the installation “the moral equivalent of racism.” Now it’s Summers’s morals that are being questioned. NB: This man is a racist and a criminal. By Nell Gluckman November 21, 2025 The sinkhole that may subsume Summers wholly… Read More Is this the End for Larry Summers at Harvard?

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Why Trump Doesn’t Stand a Chance of Killing the Epstein Story

Tina Brown Jeffrey Epstein is the slug who will not die. His trail of slime sticks to everyone who ever crossed his path. The copious accretions have even buried Trump’s futile efforts to browbeat MAGA Congress members to vote against the full release of the Epstein files. In a total backflip to avoid the humiliation… Read More Why Trump Doesn’t Stand a Chance of Killing the Epstein Story

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Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage

The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich George Monbiot If this were just a climate crisis, we would fix it. The technology, money and strategies have all been at hand for years. What stifles effective action is a deadly conjunction: the climate… Read More Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage

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The Disaster Correspondent: Why I stopped explaining the Middle East to Americans

NB: The phrase ‘the fundamental racism of their editorial line’, sums up what it feels to be the perennial object of dehumanisation by the Western establishments and a sizeable part of their populations. Lina Mounzer has said something very important here, and it has lessons not only for the West and Israel, but also for… Read More The Disaster Correspondent: Why I stopped explaining the Middle East to Americans

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Bulldozer politics: Turkman Gate under Sanjay Gandhi to Jangpura, via Adityanath’s UP

In 1976, it was the Muslims of the walled city deemed ‘in the way’ of Delhi’s progress and in 2025, it will be the urban poor — the migrants of Madrasi Camp and Bhoomiheen Payel Das The recent demolition of two working-class colonies — Madrasi Camp, a six-decade-old settlement, and Bhoomiheen Camp, a three-decade-old one… Read More Bulldozer politics: Turkman Gate under Sanjay Gandhi to Jangpura, via Adityanath’s UP

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Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

“Directorate S,” was covertly training, arming, and seeking to legitimize the Taliban, in order to enlarge Pakistan’s sphere of influence From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars, the epic and enthralling story of America’s intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11Prior to 9/11, the United… Read More Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

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