Drugs, Diamonds, Minerals, People: Smugging Through Open Borders Is the Life Blood of Rebellions

Here is a table (one of many) from an interesting retrospective dataset on how insurgencies are financed. The really successful insurgencies have a good economic base. This list is obviously incomplete but is a good sampling. The line between organzied crime and rebellion is also very thin. The closer a group is to the wealthy […]

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She is My Son. Afghanistan’s Bacha Posh

https://rtd.rt.com/films/she-is-my-son/ She is My Son. Afghanistan’s Bacha Posh, When Girls Become Boys. Russia Today Documentaries, September 23, 2016. Director: Alexander Avilov. Author: Artyom Vorobey. In patriarchal Afghanistan, women’s rights are severely restricted. Female family members are expected to stay at home and take care of the children. They have little access to education, and are […]

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