Meet the Trafficker Who Moved Hundreds of People from China to New York
Journalist Patrick Radden Keefe follows the story of the boss of a human smuggling ring. In some sense, The Snakehead was a book just…
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Freedom of the press…but maybe not in the Green Zone?
Stars and Stripes has a disturbing article today about a PR service called Rendon, which the Pentagon uses to screen journalists before they embed…
Read MoreMaybe if I took Anna Wintour to Congo for a Vogue cover shoot, I could get my expenses covered?
The New York Post says today: According to sources, Wintour’s European entourage, which is usually about 10 people including her creative director, fashion director,…
Read MoreBack home, a page from the Sarah Palin playbook
Remember back when Sarah Palin was baiting David Letterman over his stupid joke? (I know. I wish I didn’t either.) Remember the best part…
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"I totally would've joined the Refugee Run, but I'm way overqualified"
You remember the refugee run, right? Where all the political big shots at the Global Risk Forum could learn what it’s “really” like? Earlier…
Read MoreEt cetera, and some good reading
The list of things to blog about is long, but time has been short lately, and this blog, if I would let it, would…
Read MoreDeja vu about genocide. Or, why it’s okay to sleep with a racist
Yesterday, Assistant Secretary of State Philip Crowley and the press had a little battle. Some of it might sound familiar: [CROWLEY]:…”On that second point,…
Read MoreOh, what a small, interconnected world
The wonderful Glenna Gordon was doing her internet thing in Monrovia today, when a man named Lincoln came over and introduced himself. He had…
Read MoreSo many invitations to make millions, so little time
I don’t know what website I recently put my email address into, but now I’m getting an email a day from Festac Town. Of…
Read MoreOne year of corruption in Africa = 704 million years of HIV treatment
At least according to the calculations of the Namibian* activists who made this video, the first in a series called “Lords of Bling.” Take…
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