Links 14 – 18 augustus

Foreign Affairs: Ramadan in Aleppo – A Letter From Rebel-Controlled Syria Foreign Policy: Unlivable Cities – China’s megalopolises may seem impressive on paper, but they are awful places to live Financial Times: A man walks into a bank The New Yorker: An American Tragedy Fernande van Tets: Who are the al-Moqdad family and why did…

Links 10 – 13 augustus

Foreign Affairs: India’s Dark Night – The Politics Behind the Power Failure Al Jazeera: Can military action fix DR Congo’s conflict? Danger Room: Russia and Canada Gear Up for Arctic Non-War CPJ: Press freedom at issue amid Maldives chaos NYR Blog: The New Olympic Arms Race Los Angeles Magazine: End of the Line Open Democracy:…

Links 2 – 9 augustus

Foreign Policy: When Your Whole Country Is a Closet – Powerful images of gay Uganda Parbode: Suriprofs The Lede: Reading the Fake Reuters Reports on Syria nrc.nl: Campagne 2012: de belangrijkste spelers op Twitter CPJ: Mexican press corps targeted Foreign Policy: Making Punk a Threat Again – Is Russia’s Pussy Riot already the most politically…

links 27 juli – 1 augustus

Al Jazeera: Inside Story – Is Romania’s referendum democratic? Foreign Policy: Alawistan Bureau Brazilië: Koude rillingen van bioscoopdrama- ook in Brazilië Businessweek: Karl Rove: He’s Back, Big Time The Guardian: Al-Qaida turns tide for rebels in battle for eastern Syria The Lede: Damien Cave Is Taking Questions on Drug Policy in Latin America The Guardian:…

Links 21 – 26 juli

Foreign Policy: The Ghost of Abu Yahya Foreign Policy: Hometown of a Terrorist Der Spiegel: A Syrian Bloodbath Revisited – Searching for the Truth Behind the Houla Massacre Poynter: What journalists need to know about guns and gun control The New York Times Al Qaeda Taking Deadly New Role in Syria Conflict Danger Room: Rare…

links 14 – 20 juli

Al Jazeera: Independent’s Robert Fisk on the Damascus blast Reason: China’s Black Market City The New York Times: Postville, Iowa, Is Up for Grabs Esquire: The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama Der Spiegel: Disillusioned German Islamists Abandoning Jihad At War: Arming for the Syrian War: Do Soaring Prices Predict Escalating Conflict? Al Jazeera: Libya’s long…

Links 8 – 13 juli

Newsweek: Champagne Flows While Syria Burns The New York Times:The Grandmothers Sang ‘Come On and Dance!’ and a Village Got New Life The New Republic: Who Reported It First? Who Cares? IFEX: The IFEX Communiqué’s greatest hits The Lede: Listening to the Victims of Xenophobic Violence in Greece nrc.nl: Zuid-Soedan bestaat één jaar: vooral oorlog…

Links 5 – 7 juli

The Atlantic: In China, a Radical Solution for the Sunburn Danger Room: Drone Hijacking? That’s Just the Start of GPS Troubles Time: The Making of An American: An Iraqi’s Journey to Citizenship Foreign Policy: Think Again: India’s Rise Trouw: Getild door de zwarte makelaar Al-Monitor: Egypt’s Journalists Fight to Free Press From Brotherhood Control Al…

Links 28 juni – 4 juli

Al Jazeera: What Killed Arafat? Arafat’s widow calls to exhume his body Al Jazeera: Revisiting Arafat’s last days nrc.nl Titia Ketelaat blogt de aanloop naar Olympische Spelen in Londen The Arabist: Great info-map of Sahel Dynamics BBC: Angola’s Chinese-built ghost town Foreign Policy: The Year In Unfreedom Program on Arab Reform and Democracy: Constitutions as…

Links 24 – 27 juni

CPJ: Another journalist reports sex assault in Tahrir Square The Washington Post: Lawmakers reworked financial portfolios after talks with Fed, Treasury officials Amnesty International: Medische hulpverleners gemarteld en gedood in Syrië Rolling Stone: The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia nrc.nl: Joeri Boom – Welkom in mijn keuken The Lede: Sudan Deports Egyptian Journalist…