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Home Grown by Joan Smith

autism spectrum disorder, Boris Johnson, Charlie Hebdo massacre, Columbine, Donald Trump, drone strike, G4S, ghost gun, Jeremy Corbyn, microaggression, no-fly zone, operational security, post-materialism, Shamima Begum, Skype

In a telling detail, survivors of the Charlie Hebdo massacre remembered that it was Saïd, always the quieter and more introverted of the two brothers, who did most of the killing. When they shouted about avenging the Prophet, they were really talking about themselves, seeking vengeance for the anger and hurt they had been accumulating for decades. The argument that this type of terrifyingly destructive male rage is infantile in origin – that the psychological damage comes first and enables the ideology – is at the heart of this book. As we shall see in the next chapter, terrorist attacks like the Charlie Hebdo massacre are home grown, but not in the way that people usually mean when they use that phrase. 2 Everything You Need to Know About Domestic Violence It’s much more common – and more dangerous – than you think Few people realise how widespread domestic abuse is or how much police time it takes up.

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Hatred of Jews was one of the brothers’ prime motivations – Elsa Cayat, the only woman murdered by the Kouachis, was Jewish, and her family believe that was the reason why she was singled out when other female members of staff survived. It could hardly be more obvious that anti-Semitism was the motivation of their accomplice, Coulibaly, who deliberately attacked a Jewish supermarket two days after the Charlie Hebdo massacre. Both brothers were openly misogynistic, with Chérif displaying his contempt for women by refusing to stand up in court because the case against him was being heard by a female judge. He loved the conspiratorial world of radical Islam, holding clandestine meetings in the countryside with other jihadists and fantasising about himself as a warrior when he was actually driving round Paris, delivering pizzas.

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Domestic violence, neglect, humiliation: this was the everyday life of the two oldest Kouachi boys and it’s not surprising that they formed a united front against the world. ‘My brothers, they were like a couple,’9 Aicha told the police. It is a striking fact that pairs of brothers have been over-represented in recent terrorist attacks: as well as the Charlie Hebdo massacre, they featured in the Boston marathon bombing in 2013; the coordinated attacks on a football stadium and the Bataclan theatre in Paris in November 2015; the bombing of the main airport and an underground station in Brussels in March 2016; and the marauding attacks in Catalonia in August 2017.

The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success by Ross Douthat

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Fearing the far right above all else, part of the liberal establishment throws its weight behind Ben-Abbes, who wins and ushers in a slow-motion Islamicization of French society—in which men and women, right and left, gradually submit to the religion of the Prophet and join a new trans-Mediterranean Islamic empire. The book is a dystopia but not, as the casual reader might expect, a cautionary tale about political Islam, a version of The Handmaid’s Tale about shari’a law. The fact that it was published the day of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, and the weird coincidence that Houellebecq himself was being satirized on the magazine’s pre-massacre cover, led people to link him to all the European conservatives warning against the peril of Islamist extremism. But while Houellebecq is certainly a reactionary of some sort, that was not exactly what his book was doing.

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The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction by Mark Lilla

Berlin Wall, Charlie Hebdo massacre, classic study, coherent worldview, creative destruction, George Santayana, Herbert Marcuse, illegal immigration, Isaac Newton, liberation theology, Silicon Valley, South China Sea, urban planning, women in the workforce

Éric Zemmour’s succès de scandale in the fall of 2014 ensured that his novel would be subjected to intense scrutiny. So was the fact that in previous novels and in public comments Houellebecq had made highly critical remarks about Islam, one of which provoked a court case. But the astonishing, almost unimaginable, fact that the book appeared the very day of the Charlie Hebdo massacre has meant that for now Submission is being read through the prism of current events. It will take some time for the French to appreciate Submission for the strange and surprising thing that it is. Houellebecq has created a new genre—the dystopian conversion tale. Submission is not the story some expected of an armed coup d’état, and no one in it expresses hatred or even contempt of Muslims.

The Laundromat : Inside the Panama Papers, Illicit Money Networks, and the Global Elite by Jake Bernstein

Albert Einstein, banking crisis, Berlin Wall, bitcoin, blockchain, blood diamond, British Empire, central bank independence, Charlie Hebdo massacre, clean water, commoditize, company town, corporate governance, cryptocurrency, Deng Xiaoping, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, fake news, Fall of the Berlin Wall, high net worth, income inequality, independent contractor, Julian Assange, Laura Poitras, liberation theology, mega-rich, Mikhail Gorbachev, new economy, offshore financial centre, optical character recognition, pirate software, Ponzi scheme, profit motive, rising living standards, Ronald Reagan, Seymour Hersh, Skype, traveling salesman, WikiLeaks

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Bank of Cyprus, 61 Chagall, Marc, 113 Chan, Yuen-Ying, 164–66, 175, 244 Channel Islands, 24, 259 charities, as fake beneficiaries, 44 Charlie Hebdo massacre, 202 Chase Manhattan, 69 Chavarria de Estribi, Adelina Mercedes, 26 Chávez, Hugo, 137 Cheney, Dick, 55–57 Cheney, Lynne, 55 Cherry Group USA LLC, 2–3 China, 29, 31, 48, 50, 68, 104, 162–75, 203 banking, 50, 68, 162–75 China Leaks, 169–75 economy, 163–64, 167 government censorship, 164, 165, 175, 244 Internet, 164, 165, 175 journalism and, 162–75, 244 Mossfon and, 163, 166–75 Offshore Leaks and, 162–75 Opium Wars, 50 Panama Papers and, 244 politics, 170–73 princelings, 164–75 role in secrecy world, 162–75 tax havens and offshore system, 162–75 China Leaks, 169–75 Chittum, Ryan, 228 Chodiev, Patokh, 258 Chowaiki, Ezra, 112–14 Christensen, John, 24, 25, 124–25, 184–85 Christie’s, 105, 108, 110–15 CIA, 9, 58–60, 66, 67, 241 secret bank accounts, 59 tax havens and, 58–60 Citibank, 107 Citicorp Overseas Finance Corporation, 21–22 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252 Dex, Anabella, 118–24, 201 Dex, Jost, 118–24, 201 diamond trade, 48, 53–54, 143, 198–99 Díaz-Struck, Emilia, 217–18 Disney Company, 200 Doe, Samuel, 166 Doğan, Aydın, 265–67 Doğan Holding, 253, 265–67 Dominican Republic, 199 double tax treaties, 21–22 Doyen Group, 257 drug trafficking, 17–18, 19, 27–28, 44–46, 66, 76, 138, 198–99, 215, 217, 270 Dubai, 274 due diligence procedures, 58, 72, 77–78, 81–83, 120, 128, 182–84, 213, 231, 262, 263 Dunbar, John, 274 Eastern Europe, 29, 94, 256 Economist, 35 Ecuador, 32, 242–43 Panama Papers and, 242–43 Egrant, 277 Egypt, 182, 221 Elf oil company, 116 Elizabeth, Queen of England, 21 Elliott Management, 191–95, 269 Ellsberg, Daniel, 230 Elmaleh, Judah, 53, 138–39, 143 Elmaleh, Mardoche, 138–39, 143 Elmaleh, Meyer, 138–39, 143 El Salvador, 245 Endeavour Resources, 86–87 Erdoğan, Recep Tayyip, 252–53, 256, 265–67 Ernst & Young, 200 Escobar, Ana, 77, 80, 81, 83 Escobar, Pablo, 46 Essential Consultants, LLC, 283 Estera, 281 Ethan Allen, 183–84 Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC), 258–60 Europe, 7–8, 49, 21, 200 European Commission, 189 European Community, 81 European Savings Directive, 79 European Union (EU), 75, 79, 99, 189–90, 199, 200, 272, 276–77 Europol, 272 Excellence Effort Property Development, 171 Facebook, 238, 239 Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia, 66, 223 Falciani, Hervé, 177–81, 186–90, 196, 197, 203 Federal Reserve, U.S., 49 Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 66 FedEx, 185 Fiandor, Miguel, 210 Fidentia, 39, 42–44, 133 FIFA, 224, 240 Finland, 232, 236 Firepower, 147 Firtash, Dmitry, 252 Fischer, David, 59–60 Fitch, 121 Fitzgibbon, Will, 225 Fitz Patrick, Mariel, 218, 242 FKK Acapulco sex club, 278–79 Flax, Keith, 24, 25, 269 Flax, Rosemarie, 25, 80, 269 Fleg Trading, 241 FL Group, 257–58 Florida, 4, 63, 72, 140, 141, 256 real estate, 4, 260–61 Fonseca, Ramón, 6, 10–13, 34, 48, 76, 80, 118, 130, 166, 201, 211, 220, 232, 284 arrest of, 271–72 background, 10–16 law firm beginnings, 5–7, 10, 14–18 meets Mossack, 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Corporate Services, 193, 194 Miami, 4, 63, 72, 140, 141 Michael Geoghegan Settlement trust, 54 Michiana International, 16 Microsoft, 6, 36–38 pirated software, 36–38, 77 Middle East, 48, 66–67, 137, 139 Midland Bank, 54 Midland Resources Holding Limited, 252 Mikhael, Georgina, 178 Milan, 50, 107 Ming Pao, 165, 174–75, 244 mining, 253, 255, 259 Miss Universe pageant (2013, Moscow), 255 Modigliani, Amedeo, Seated Man with a Cane, 108–10, 240 Monaco, 104, 114 Monde, Le, 55, 153, 181, 217, 234 Swiss Leaks and, 181, 186–87, 195–96 Mondeo Industries, 81–82 Mondex Corporation, 108–10 money laundering, 3, 17–18, 26, 27, 30, 40, 48, 51, 66, 68–74, 78, 85, 252, 258 art trade and, 103–15 bearer shares, 26, 35–36, 115, 132–35, 140, 168, 181, 210 Borodin case, 93 cryptocurrencies and, 284 drug trade and, 27–28, 44–46, 138 Fidentia fraud, 42–44 global banking and, 47–60, 68–74, 79, 130–44 IRS investigations, 61–74, 161 mafia, 30 Malta and, 276–77, 283 Russia and, 88–102, 154–55, 251–61 Trump franchises and, 283 Money Laundering Abatement Act, 72 Mongolia, 154, 159 Montenegro, Sara, 284 Mora, Ramón, 11 Morgan and Morgan, 27 Morocco, 138 Moscow, 92 real estate, 255–56 2013 Miss Universe pageant, 255 Mossack, Erhard, 7–8, 9 Mossack, Jürgen, 6, 8–10, 30, 34, 35, 48, 54, 57, 69, 76, 93, 96, 128, 133, 182, 201, 211, 218, 232, 284 arrest of, 271–72 background of, 8–10 law firm beginnings, 5–7, 10, 17–18 meets Fonseca, 10, 17 Microsoft case and, 35–38 Nazi relatives of, 7–9, 235 as nominee director, 26 Panama Papers and, 235–39, 244–48, 270–72, 274 Mossack Fonseca (Mossfon), 3, 5–18 art trade and, 103–15 backdated loan documents, 85–87 Bahamas operations, 29–30, 35–38, 121, 133 Bank Rossiya network and, 90–102 BCCI and, 66–67 bearer shares, 26–27, 35–36, 132–35, 140, 168, 181, 210 beginnings of, 5–7, 10, 17–19 British Virgin Islands operations, 19–33, 41, 42, 56, 80–87, 121–23, 129, 132–45, 161, 169, 182–84, 268 China and, 163, 166–75 Commerzbank raid and, 205–10 cybersecurity, 236 damage control committee, 238–39 demise of, 268–74 drug trade and, 27–28, 44–46, 138 due diligence, 77–78, 81–83, 120, 128, 182–84, 213, 231, 262, 263 early years, 19–33 Fidentia fraud, 42–44 Franchise, 34–39, 82 FRO Inc. case, 76–78 Gordon partnership, 35–39, 76–78 growing scrutiny of, 181–84, 201–2 growth of, 79, 83, 211, 213 HSBC and, 47–60, 79, 137–44, 199 Iceland and, 116–29, 216, 228–30, 234, 238–40 ICIJ releases database of, 247–49, 267 IRS investigations and, 61–74 Luxembourg operations, 118–25, 129, 184–90, 199–202, 205–11 Malta and, 277, 281 Microsoft case, 36–38, 77 Mossfon Trust and, 39–44 Nevada operation, 191–95, 207, 208, 213, 218, 248, 269, 270 9/11 attacks and, 73 Niue companies, 31–32, 68–69, 79–80, 86 nominee directors, 26–27, 95–96, 120–21 offices raided after Panama Papers release, 244–46 Offshore Leaks and, 161, 166–77 Panama Papers and, 230–49, 268–74, 280–81 PEPs and, 81–83 Prometheus and, 218, 219–33 Russia and, 88–102, 234–35, 251–61 Süddeutsche Zeitung story on, 206–10, 217 transfer of business, 284–86 Trump’s ties to, 250–67 trusts, 28–29, 39–44, 139 2008 financial crisis and, 123–24, 128–29 U.S. market, 35, 126–27, 191–95, 269, 270 UBS and, 130–32, 135–37 video, 5–6 Mossfon Trust, 39–44, 169 Mubarak, Alaa, 182 Mubarak, Hosni, 182, 223 Mueller, Robert, 283 Munich, 220–24 Murphy, Richard, 184–85 Muscat, Joseph, 276–78, 284 Muscat, Michelle, 277 Muscat, Victor, 282 Nabila, 16–17 Nación, La, 180, 224, 242 Nahmad, David, 106, 107, 109, 111, 112, 240 Nahmad, Ezra, 106, 107, 109, 240 Nahmad, Joe, 106–10, 240 Namibia, 57 National Security Agency, 58–59, 66 Nationalist Party (Malta), 276 Nauru, 68–69 Nautilus Trustees Limited, 114–15 Nazarbayev, Nursultan, 258, 260 Nazism, 7–8, 11, 108, 235 Neo4J, 247 Netherlands Antilles, 21 Nevada, 191–95, 254 Mossfon operation, 191–95, 207, 208, 213, 218, 248, 269, 270, 285 Newfoundland, 29 New Jersey, 15, 64–66, 71 New York, 4, 35, 43, 50, 107, 110–12, 245 banking, 49, 68, 69 mafia, 60 9/11 attacks, 73 real estate, 4, 254, 257–60 New York Times, 13, 152–53, 159, 164, 196, 198, 207, 208, 239, 272, 273 Panama Papers and, 272 New Zealand, 31, 69, 79 Nigeria, 32, 54–57 bribery scheme, 54–57 Nike, 281 9/11 attacks, 73 Niue, 31–32, 34, 68, 79, 193 tax haven, 31–32, 68–69, 79–80, 86 Niue International Business Company Act, 31 Nixon, Richard, 63 nominee beneficial owners, 168–69, 183 nominee directors, 26–27, 95–96, 120–21 Nordea Bank, 79 Noriega, Manuel, 13–14, 17–18, 40, 51, 166, 220 Norman Island, 35 Northrup, 17 North Star Overseas Enterprises, 197–98 Norway, 116, 117, 124, 224–27, 245 Nougayrède, Natalie, 186 Nuix, 152 Obama, Barack, 143–44 approach to secrecy world, 254 reaction to Panama Papers, 241, 245–46, 251 Obermaier, Frederik, 207–9, 217, 222, 239 Obermayer, Bastian, 155, 189, 200, 207–9, 217, 222, 228, 231 Odebrecht, 231, 270–71 OECD, 67–69 crusade against tax havens, 67–69, 75–76 Offshore Incorporations, 163 Offshore Leaks, 145–75, 181, 188, 189, 196, 198, 215–16, 221, 231, 237 beginnings of, 145–61 China and, 162–75 database, 160–61, 197, 247 Mossfon and, 161, 166–77 publication of, 160–61, 198 Offshore Magic Circle, 280 offshore shell companies, 1–4, 15, 20 art trade and, 103–15 banking and, 47–60, 68–74, 79, 130–44 Bank Rossiya network, 90–102 British Virgin Islands, 19–33, 41, 42, 56, 72, 80–87, 99, 121–23, 129, 132–45, 161, 169, 182–84, 268 China, 162–75 drug trade and, 27–28, 44–46, 138 HSBC and, 47–60, 79, 137–44, 177–81, 186–90 Iceland, 116–29, 216, 228–30, 234, 238–40, 257–58 IRS investigations, 61–74, 161 Lux Leaks, 186, 188–90, 199–202, 209, 211 Malta and, 276–77 Mossfon and, 285 Mossfon Trust and, 39–44 Nigerian bribery scheme, 54–57 Niue, 31–32, 68–69, 79–80, 86 nominee directors, 26–27, 95–96, 120–21 Offshore Leaks, 145–77 Panama, 15–18, 25, 29, 40, 54, 56, 64, 72, 86, 93, 94, 109, 126, 134, 141, 166–69, 181, 195, 220, 223, 266 Panama Papers and, 230–49, 268–74 Paradise Papers and, 280–81 Prometheus project, 218, 219–33 Russia and, 68–69, 88–102, 146, 154–55, 251–61 signed blank documents, 26–27 Swiss Leaks, 177–81, 186–90, 195–99, 202–4, 216, 224–25 as tax havens, 27–28, 61–74 Trump and, 250–67, 283 trusts, 28–29, 39–44, 139 UBS and, 130–32, 135–37 Wheaton case, 63–66 See also tax evasion and havens oil, 82, 88, 100, 141, 253, 255, 263, 266 Olesen, Alexa, 166 Olszewski, Marianna, 169 Omicron Collections Limited, 115 Operation Tradewinds, 63 Operation Virus, 143 OVE Financial, 99–100 Owens, Ramsés, 39–44, 79, 86, 126–28, 169, 238–39, 284 Fidentia fraud and, 42–44 Mossfon Trust and, 39–44 Oxfam, 125 Ozero, 91, 96, 97 Ozon, 97 Paesa Sánchez, Francisco, 80–81 País, El, 153, 174, 177 Pakistan, 223, 272 Palmer, James, 108–9 Panama, 1–4, 5, 8–18, 51, 75, 79, 82, 211–13, 219, 223 corporation law, 14–16 coup of 1931, 11–12 demise of Mossfon and, 268–76, 284–86 drug trade, 17–18, 19 foreign ships registered in, 10 former Nazis in, 8–9, 11 foundations, 41–44 government corruption, 17–18 Mossfon offices raided, 244–46 1989 invasion, 40 “offshore” jurisdiction, 15 oligarchy, 18 politics, 10–14, 17, 40, 212, 220, 232, 238 real estate, 261 tax havens and offshore system, 15–18, 25, 29, 40, 42, 54, 56, 64, 72, 86, 93, 94, 109, 126, 134, 141, 166–69, 181, 195, 220, 223, 266 trusts, 28–29 Panama Canal Zone, 11, 40 Panama City, 1, 14, 18, 35, 39–40, 76, 268 Panama Papers, 3, 40, 107, 109, 114, 139, 230–74, 280, 284 database posted online, 247–49, 267 Iceland and, 228–30, 234, 237–40 John Doe source, 207–8, 231, 248–49 Malta and, 277–78 naming of, 230 Prometheus and, 219–33 publication of, 230–33, 237–38, 273 Pulitzer Prize for, 274 reaction to, 234–49 revelations, 268–74 Russia and, 234–35, 251 Trump and, 251–52 Pan World Investments Inc., 182 Papua New Guinea, 30–31 Paradise Papers (Athena Project), 275, 280–82, 284 Paris, 50, 107, 198, 138, 153, 179, 180, 197–98, 202 Charlie Hebdo massacre, 202 Patriot Act, 73 Pelosi, Nancy, 265 Pentagon Papers, 230 PEPs, 81–83, 259, 262, 263 PepsiCo, 185 Perrin, Edouard, 184–86, 188, 202, 217, 249 Peru, 195, 245 Peskov, Dmitry, 235 Peters, Richard, 23, 24 Petrobras, 231, 270 Petrol Ofisi, 266 Petrov, Gennady, 91–92 Philippines, 146, 154, 276, 281 Picasso, Pablo, 103, 106, 107, 110, 111, 112 Pilatus bank, 275, 277, 283 Pilet, François, 198 Pinochet, Augusto, 139 Pla Horrit, José Maria, 45–46 Plattner, Titus, 155, 198, 217 Porcell, Kenia, 269, 270 Porritt, Gary, 32 Portcullis TrustNet, 145, 170, 171 Porteous, Kimberley, 150 Prensa, La, 219–20 Panama Papers and, 230–33, 238, 242, 246, 248 Prevezon Holdings, 252 PricewaterhouseCoopers, 170, 184, 200, 202 Prohibition, 29–30 Prometheus, 218, 219–33 Lillehammer conference, 224–27 parallel processing, 222–23 prostitution, 251, 260 Pulitzer Prize, 274 Putin, Vladimir, 88–102, 132, 154–55, 208, 217, 223, 281, 285 background of, 89–90 Bank Rossiya network, 90–102 Mossfon files and, 88–102, 234–35, 251–61 Panama Papers and, 234–35, 251 Trump and, 250–51, 255–56 2016 U.S. election and, 250–51 Qatar, 122 Quirk, James, 184 Quirk, Matthew, 184 Reagan, Ronald, 40, 118 Red Cross, 44 Reeves, Dan, 73, 74 registration fees, 27 René, France-Albert, 60 Ren TV, 99 Republic National Bank of New York, 49, 68, 111 Republican Party, 282–83 Reuters, 188, 261 Reykjavík, 116, 117, 124, 213–14, 239 Reykjavik Media, 237 Rich, Denise, 154 Rich, Marc, 154 Richard, Laurent, 282 Riggs Bank, 59, 139 Ringier, 198, 203 Road Town, 19, 23, 32, 33, 80 Rodríguez, Rolando, 219, 220, 232–33 Roldugin, Sergei, 90, 97–98, 208, 217, 234–35, 285 Romney, Cyril B., 24, 25 Roosevelt, Franklin D., 29 Rosebud Consultants, 92 Rosneft, 98 Ross, SS, 100–102 Ross, Wilbur, 281–82 Rossotti, Charles, 73–74 Rostec, 98 Rotenberg, Arkady, 90, 100 Rotenberg, Boris, 100 Roth, William, 65, 72 Rothberg, Michael, 160 Royal Bank of Scotland, 35–36 Running Commentary (blog), 275–76, 278–79 Russell Properties, 172–73 Russia, 7, 87, 88–102, 185, 211, 221, 224 banking, 88–102, 252, 256 Bank Rossiya network, 90–102 collapse of Soviet Union, 89, 91, 93, 262 corruption, 82, 88–102 economy, 88, 93–94, 100 mafia, 48, 51, 68, 81, 91–102 Magnitsky case, 155, 252 Malta and, 276 Mossfon and, 88–102, 234–35, 251–61 oil, 82, 88, 100 oligarchy, 57, 93, 100, 252, 256, 261, 283 Panama Papers and, 234–35, 251 politics, 82, 88–102, 250–51 real estate, 255–56 sanctions on, 100 spy network, 89 tax havens and offshore system, 68–69, 88–102, 146, 154–55, 251–61 television, 99 Trump and, 107, 250–52, 255–56 2016 U.S. election and, 250–51 World War II, 7, 8 Russian Commercial Bank of Cyprus (RCB), 95–96, 99 Rybolovlev, Dmitry, 261 Ryle, Gerard, 145–61, 176–77, 221, 224–27 Falciani data and, 179–81, 186–90, 196 growth plan for ICIJ, 225–27, 272–74 Lux Leaks, 188–90, 199–202 Offshore Leaks, 145–77, 215–16 Panama Papers, 230–49, 268–74 Süddeutsche Zeitung Mossfon story and, 206–10 Swiss Leaks, 177–81, 186–90, 195–99 Sachs, Gunter, 155 Sadr Hasheminejad, Ali, 277, 283 Safra, Edmond, 48–49, 51, 52, 58 Safra Republic Holdings, 48–54, 138 Saint Moritz, 52 Saint Petersburg, 89–91, 119 Saint Thomas, 19, 22, 23 Saint Ursula, 20, 25, 33 Samoa, 56, 86, 285 Sandalwood Continental, 95–97, 99 Sangajav, Bayartsogt, 159 Santa Fé, 12–13 Sardarov, Rashid, 57 Sargasso Trustees Limited, 114–15 Sater, Felix, 257 Saudi Arabia, 16, 17, 21, 66, 67, 276 Sberbank, 256 Schembri, Keith, 275, 277 Schilis-Gallego, Cécile, 217 Schneider, Jerome, 69 Scott, Vianca, 83–84 Seattle, 1, 3 secrecy world, 3–4, 25–26, 32, 283–84 art trade, 103–15 banking, 47–60, 68–74, 89, 130–44 British Virgin Islands and, 19–33, 80–87 China and, 162–75 decline of, 143 endurance of, 276, 282, 286 Iceland and, 116–29 Offshore Leaks, 145–77 Panama Papers, 230–49, 268–74 Russia and, 88–102 Trump’s role in, 250–67 trusts, 28–29 See also global elite; money laundering; offshore shell companies; specific countries, companies, and investigations; tax evasion and havens Segnini, Giannina, 157–58, 180, 188 Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, 65, 72, 139–44 Sequoia Treuhand Trust, 94–95 sex trafficking, 276 Seychelles, 24, 59–60, 83 tax havens, 24, 42, 56, 59–60, 127, 181, 213 Shallop, Emmanuel, 199 Shamalov, Kirill, 97, 100 Shamalov, Nikolai, 91, 97 Sharif, Nawaz, 223, 272 shelf companies, 25 Shell Oil, 30 Shireburn Limited, 54 Shleynov, Roman, 146, 154–55 Shnaider, Alexander, 251–52 Shorex conference, 61–62, 70, 77 Shvets, Yuri, 91 Shyfrin, Eduard, 251–52 Siemens, 91, 97, 208 Sierra Leone, 199 signed blank documents, 26–27 Simon, Adrian, 48, 52, 136, 142, 143, 269 Simsbury International Corp., 110–11 Singapore, 24, 104, 145, 274, 280–81 Singer, Paul, 191–95, 202, 207, 208, 218 Singh, Subhash, 35–38 60 Minutes, 195, 196, 203 Skuratov, Yury, 93 slavery, 20, 60, 101–2 Snowden, Edward, 58–59, 237, 249 SOCAR, 277–78 soccer, 223–24, 240 Sochi Olympic Games, 90, 211 Société Générale, 134 Sociétés 6, 185, 186, 200 Soir, Le, 188 Solomon, John, 149–50 Sonnette Overseas, 97–98 Soros, George, 282 Sotheby’s 105, 107, 115 Sousa, Carlos, 232, 236 South Africa, 39, 132 Fidentia fraud, 42–44 Southport Management Services Limited, 94 Sovereign Society, 126–28 Soviet Union, collapse of, 89, 91, 93, 262 See also Russia Spain, 9, 80–81, 114–15, 153, 174, 179, 197, 199, 245 Spiegel, Der, 153 Spink and Son, 110–11 Sputnik, 235 Standard Oil, 10 Stanhope Investments, 32 State Department, U.S., 66, 146 Stefánsson, Bardi, 229 Steinmetz, Benjamin, 53, 217, 285 Steinmetz family, 252 Stettiner, Oscar, 108–10 St.

The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics by John B. Judis

affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Albert Einstein, anti-communist, back-to-the-land, Bernie Sanders, Boris Johnson, Bretton Woods, capital controls, carbon tax, centre right, Charlie Hebdo massacre, collapse of Lehman Brothers, deindustrialization, desegregation, Donald Trump, eurozone crisis, financial deregulation, first-past-the-post, fixed income, full employment, ghettoisation, glass ceiling, Glass-Steagall Act, hiring and firing, illegal immigration, immigration reform, income inequality, invisible hand, Jeremy Corbyn, laissez-faire capitalism, Les Trente Glorieuses, mass immigration, means of production, neoliberal agenda, obamacare, Occupy movement, open borders, plutocrats, Post-Keynesian economics, post-materialism, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, War on Poverty, We are the 99%, white flight, Winter of Discontent

In the United Kingdom, 630,000 immigrants arrived in 2015, which would have been equivalent to 3.2 million immigrants arriving in the U.S. that year. The rise in immigration coincided with a rise in terrorist attacks, particularly in the north. From December 2010 to March 2016, there were nine major attacks in Europe. Four of the worst occurred in the last two years: In January 2015, the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris claimed 20; the November 2015 Paris attacks by ISIS killed 137; in Brussels in March 2016, three more ISIS suicide bombings left 35 dead; in July, a cargo truck drove into Bastille Day crowds in Nice, killing 85. In addition, there were sexual assaults involving refugees and immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa—the best known occurring in Cologne on New Year’s Eve 2015.

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (Politics of Place) by Tim Marshall

9 dash line, Admiral Zheng, anti-communist, Berlin Wall, British Empire, California gold rush, Charlie Hebdo massacre, colonial rule, cuban missile crisis, Deng Xiaoping, drone strike, European colonialism, facts on the ground, failed state, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Hans Island, Kickstarter, LNG terminal, market fragmentation, megacity, Mercator projection distort size, especially Greenland and Africa, Mikhail Gorbachev, military-industrial complex, Monroe Doctrine, Nelson Mandela, oil shale / tar sands, Scramble for Africa, South China Sea, Suez canal 1869, Suez crisis 1956, trade route, transcontinental railway, Transnistria, UNCLOS, UNCLOS, zero-sum game

., 4, 187 Byrnes, James, 199 California, 62–63, 67, 69, 70–72, 222 Cambodia, 55 Cameroon, 109, 124, 125 Canada and Arctic/Arctic Circle, 240–41, 243, 246, 251, 254–55 and the United States, 62–63, 65, 66 Canadian Shield, 65 Canute, King, 260–61 Cape Horn, 215, 218 Cape of Good Hope, 109, 111, 130 Caribbean Sea, 59–60, 72–73, 83, 215, 226 Carpathian Mountains, 8–9, 12, 16, 29, 30, 86–87, 91, 96, 107 Carter, Ash, 58–59 Caspian Sea, 8–9, 15, 16, 133, 141, 158, 177 Catherine the Great, 15–16, 25–26 Caucasus, 15, 16, 29, 31 Celebes Sea, 55 Central African Republic, 109, 112, 119 Central America, 215, 218, 221–22, 226, 226–31. See also Latin America and names of specific countries Central American Free Trade Agreement, 230 Cerrado, 215 Cha, Victor, 202 Chad, 109, 112, 116–17, 125 Charles XIII, 13 Charlie Hebdo massacre (2015), 106 Chechnya, 15, 18, 29, 183 Chiang Kai-shek, 43 Chile, 215, 217, 218, 220–21, 230–32, 232 China, 8–9, 36–37, 38–61, 55, 168–69, 171, 193 and Africa, 60–61, 84, 119, 122, 125, 126–31 Air Defense Identification Zone, 56–57, 81–82, 211 annexation of Tibet, 7, 41, 43–44, 46–50, 51, 178, 188–90 and Arctic/Arctic Circle, 249 as BRICS country, 235 deep-water port investments, 60 energy resources, 50, 56–58, 60, 81, 82–83 and India, 2–3, 46–49, 178, 188–91, 260 and Japan, 43, 55–56, 206, 209–13 and Korea, 194–96, 198–200, 203–4 land reclamation, 58–59 languages, 40, 50–51 laser technology, 262–63 and Latin America, 83, 226, 227–29, 230–31, 235 naval capacity, 6, 38–39, 53–60, 79, 81, 82, 192 and Pakistan, 46, 49, 60, 177, 179 railway to Tibet, 48–49 and Russia, 18, 33–35, 45 space exploration, 54, 262 and United Kingdom, 43, 44 and United States, 38–39, 78–83 Chou En-lai, 52 Christians and Christianity, 71, 91, 139, 143, 150, 164, 175, 190 Chukchi Sea, 240–41, 245 Churchill, Winston, 12 Clinton, Hillary, 79 Cold War, 81, 94, 107, 118, 198–200, 205, 221, 235, 251–53 Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), 20 Colombia, 215, 218, 224, 230–31 Colorado, 62–63, 71 coltan, 119–20 Communism, 13–14, 16, 18, 34–35, 43–48, 51–52, 81, 83, 126, 165, 195–200, 209 Confucius, 41 Congo, 109, 112 Congo Rainforest, 118 Congo River, 109, 113 Congress of Vienna (1815), 99 Conrad, Joseph, 117 Costa Rica, 226 cotton, 179 Crete, 86–87 Crimea, 13, 21–27, 29, 30, 33, 35, 102, 107 Crimean War (1853–56), 13, 30 Croatia, 3, 86–87, 90, 91, 98 Cuba, 62–63, 80, 83, 226 and Africa, 125–26 and the United States, 72–73, 195 culture wars, 105–6 Cyprus, 86–87, 133, 141, 163 Cyrenaica, 116–17 Czech Republic, 14, 20–21, 32, 33, 86–87, 91 DAESH (Dawlat al-Islamiya f’al-Iraq wa al-Shams), 147 Dagestan, 18 Dalai Lama, 47, 51, 178, 189 Damascus, 145, 156–57, 160 Danube River, 30, 86–87, 89–90, 91, 113 Dardanelles Strait, 163–64 Dead Sea, 153 Declaration of Independence (1776), 67 demilitarized zone (DMZ), in Korea, 200–204 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker

3D printing, Abraham Maslow, access to a mobile phone, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, agricultural Revolution, Albert Einstein, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alignment Problem, An Inconvenient Truth, anti-communist, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Eddington, artificial general intelligence, availability heuristic, Ayatollah Khomeini, basic income, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, biodiversity loss, Black Swan, Bonfire of the Vanities, Brexit referendum, business cycle, capital controls, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, carbon footprint, carbon tax, Charlie Hebdo massacre, classic study, clean water, clockwork universe, cognitive bias, cognitive dissonance, Columbine, conceptual framework, confounding variable, correlation does not imply causation, creative destruction, CRISPR, crowdsourcing, cuban missile crisis, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, dark matter, data science, decarbonisation, degrowth, deindustrialization, dematerialisation, demographic transition, Deng Xiaoping, distributed generation, diversified portfolio, Donald Trump, Doomsday Clock, double helix, Eddington experiment, Edward Jenner, effective altruism, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, end world poverty, endogenous growth, energy transition, European colonialism, experimental subject, Exxon Valdez, facts on the ground, fake news, Fall of the Berlin Wall, first-past-the-post, Flynn Effect, food miles, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, frictionless, frictionless market, Garrett Hardin, germ theory of disease, Gini coefficient, Great Leap Forward, Hacker Conference 1984, Hans Rosling, hedonic treadmill, helicopter parent, Herbert Marcuse, Herman Kahn, Hobbesian trap, humanitarian revolution, Ignaz Semmelweis: hand washing, income inequality, income per capita, Indoor air pollution, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invention of writing, Jaron Lanier, Joan Didion, job automation, Johannes Kepler, John Snow's cholera map, Kevin Kelly, Khan Academy, knowledge economy, l'esprit de l'escalier, Laplace demon, launch on warning, life extension, long peace, longitudinal study, Louis Pasteur, Mahbub ul Haq, Martin Wolf, mass incarceration, meta-analysis, Michael Shellenberger, microaggression, Mikhail Gorbachev, minimum wage unemployment, moral hazard, mutually assured destruction, Naomi Klein, Nate Silver, Nathan Meyer Rothschild: antibiotics, negative emissions, Nelson Mandela, New Journalism, Norman Mailer, nuclear taboo, nuclear winter, obamacare, ocean acidification, Oklahoma City bombing, open economy, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, paperclip maximiser, Paris climate accords, Paul Graham, peak oil, Peter Singer: altruism, Peter Thiel, post-truth, power law, precautionary principle, precision agriculture, prediction markets, public intellectual, purchasing power parity, radical life extension, Ralph Nader, randomized controlled trial, Ray Kurzweil, rent control, Republic of Letters, Richard Feynman, road to serfdom, Robert Gordon, Rodney Brooks, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, Rory Sutherland, Saturday Night Live, science of happiness, Scientific racism, Second Machine Age, secular stagnation, self-driving car, sharing economy, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, Simon Kuznets, Skype, smart grid, Social Justice Warrior, sovereign wealth fund, sparse data, stem cell, Stephen Hawking, Steve Bannon, Steven Pinker, Stewart Brand, Stuxnet, supervolcano, synthetic biology, tech billionaire, technological determinism, technological singularity, Ted Kaczynski, Ted Nordhaus, TED Talk, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, the scientific method, The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver, The Spirit Level, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, The Wisdom of Crowds, Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions, Thomas Malthus, total factor productivity, Tragedy of the Commons, union organizing, universal basic income, University of East Anglia, Unsafe at Any Speed, Upton Sinclair, uranium enrichment, urban renewal, W. E. B. Du Bois, War on Poverty, We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters, women in the workforce, working poor, World Values Survey, Y2K

They seek this new evidence avidly, and avoid both overreacting to it (“This changes everything!”) and underreacting to it (“This means nothing!”). Take, for example, the prediction “There will be an attack by Islamist militants in Western Europe between 21 January and 31 March 2015,” made shortly after the Charlie Hebdo massacre in January of that year. Pundits and politicians, their heads spinning with the Availability heuristic, would play out the scenario in the theater of the imagination and, not wanting to appear complacent or naïve, answer Definitely Yes. That’s not how superforecasters work. One of them, asked by Tetlock to think aloud, reported that he began by estimating the base rate: he went to Wikipedia, looked up the list of Islamist terrorist attacks in Europe for the previous five years, and divided by 5, which predicted 1.2 attacks a year.

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African AIDS relief policy of, 67 among know-nothings, 374–5 disdain for science and, 60, 387, 389 and nuclear weapons, 291, 319 prescription drug benefit of, 109 wealth creation malaprop, 81 Buturovic, Zeljka, 362 Cambodia, 78, 147, 161, 238 Cameroon, 162 Campbell, David, 432 Campbell, Joseph, 456n1 Camus, Albert, 446 Canada child mortality and, 56 depression and, 282 economic freedom in, 365, 483n39 education in, 237 emancipative values in, 225–7, 226, 227 and escape from poverty, 85 happiness and well-being, 438–9, 475n30 homicide rates in, 171 populism and, 341 secularization and, 436, 437, 438–9 social spending in, 108, 109, 365, 483n39 cancer, 61, 146 Cantril, Hadley, 266, 359 capitalism authoritarian, China and, 90, 201, 203–4, 343 as coexisting with regulations, 364, 365 as coexisting with social spending, 364, 365, 483nn39,42 and cultures, 85 and Great Escape from poverty, 90–91, 364 unbridled/unregulated/untrammeled, 364 See also commerce; economic inequality; economics capital punishment abolition of, 208–213, 209 cognitive bias study referencing, 359–60 homosexual behavior criminalized, 223 Capp, Al, 297 Caracas, Venezuela, 172 carbon tax, 139, 145–6, 149 Carey, John, 247 Caribbean countries, 89, 175, 201, 203 Carlson, Robert, 307 Carroll, Sean, 385 Carter Center, 65 Carter, Jimmy, 67 Carter, Richard, 63–4 Castro, Fidel, 376–7, 447, 484n79 Catholic Church, education and, 234 Catholic countries, emancipative values in, 227, 227 Catholics, 222, 437, 440 Central African Republic, 95, 162, 236 Central Asia, democratization and, 206 Chad, 160, 162 Chalk, Frank, 160–61 Chalmers, David, 425–6 Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, 398 Chaplin, Charlie, 186 charitable giving Effective Altruism, 381 as factor in happiness, 271 Charlie Hebdo massacre, 370 Chase, Chevy, 266 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 181 Chávez, Hugo, 91, 171, 447 Chekhov, Anton, 284, 387 Chenoweth, Erica, 405 Chernobyl disaster (1986), 146 child mortality, 55–7, 56, 58, 66–7, 66, 125 children, 228–30 abuse of, 229 bullying at school, 229 child labor, 230–32, 231 child marriage ban, 222 childrearing in emancipative values, 224 corporal punishment of, 229–30 negative media coverage of, 229 stunting due to undernourishment, 70–71, 71 trafficking in, 232 See also child mortality; education; teenagers Chile child mortality and, 56 earthquake (2010), 188 education and literacy in, 236, 238 GDP of, 85 military government of, 200 poverty in, 91 China An Lushan Rebellion, 484n77 authoritarian capitalism of, 90, 201, 203–4, 343 Axial Age and, 23 calories available per person in, 70, 70 capital punishment in, 209–210 carbon emissions of, 143, 143, 144 childhood stunting in, 71, 71 Chinese Civil War, 49, 158, 160, 199 Cultural Revolution (1966–75), 91, 161, 208 democratization and, 206 education in, 237, 237, 238 escape from poverty of, 85, 86, 90 famine in, 69, 72, 78 GDP of, 85 globalization and, 111 Great Leap Forward (1958–61), 78, 91 Great Recession and, 112 human rights in, 208, 208 mass killings (genocide deaths) in, 161 nuclear power and, 147, 150 nuclear weapons and, 313, 317, 318, 320 per capita income of, 86 perception of the world as getting better, 457n8 population-control program of, 74 quality of life and, 247 secularization and, 436 social spending in, 109 Tiananmen Square protests, 208 traffic death rates in, 178 and Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 419 China Syndrome, The (film), 147–8 chlorofluorocarbons ban (1987), 134 Chomsky, Noam, 443, 456n1 Christian militias, 162 Christians and Christianity humanist denominations, 412 killings by ISIS, 162 Nietzsche’s rejection of, 444 religiosity of nation-states in world wars, 429–30 theoconservatism, 448–9 wars of religion, 8, 10, 364, 450, 488n46 See also Bible; Evangelical Christians Churchill, Winston, 205, 341 Cicero, 397 Cipolla, Carlo, 79–80 cities.

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

"World Economic Forum" Davos, 1960s counterculture, accounting loophole / creative accounting, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, agricultural Revolution, algorithmic trading, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, Ayatollah Khomeini, basic income, behavioural economics, Bernie Sanders, bitcoin, blockchain, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, call centre, Cambridge Analytica, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, carbon tax, carbon-based life, Charlie Hebdo massacre, cognitive dissonance, computer age, computer vision, cryptocurrency, cuban missile crisis, decarbonisation, DeepMind, deglobalization, disinformation, Donald Trump, Dr. Strangelove, failed state, fake news, Filter Bubble, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, Freestyle chess, gig economy, glass ceiling, Google Glasses, illegal immigration, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Internet of things, invisible hand, job automation, knowledge economy, liberation theology, Louis Pasteur, low skilled workers, Mahatma Gandhi, Mark Zuckerberg, mass immigration, means of production, Menlo Park, meta-analysis, Mohammed Bouazizi, mutually assured destruction, Naomi Klein, obamacare, pattern recognition, post-truth, post-work, purchasing power parity, race to the bottom, RAND corporation, restrictive zoning, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, Scramble for Africa, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, TED Talk, transatlantic slave trade, trolley problem, Tyler Cowen, Tyler Cowen: Great Stagnation, universal basic income, uranium enrichment, Watson beat the top human players on Jeopardy!, zero-sum game

Billboards and advertisements aimed at ultra-Orthodox Jews usually depict only men and boys – never women and girls.4 In 2011, a scandal erupted when the ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn paper Di Tzeitung published a photo of American officials watching the raid on Osama bin-Laden’s compound but digitally erased all women from the photo, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The paper explained it was forced to do so by Jewish ‘laws of modesty’. A similar scandal erupted when HaMevaser paper expunged Angela Merkel from a photo of a demonstration against the Charlie Hebdo massacre, lest her image arouse any lustful thoughts in the minds of devout readers. The publisher of a third ultra-Orthodox newspaper, Hamodia, defended this policy by explaining that ‘We are backed by thousands of years of Jewish tradition.’5 Nowhere is the ban on seeing women stricter than in the synagogue.

Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, From the Ancients to Fake News by Eric Berkowitz

Albert Einstein, algorithmic management, anti-communist, Ayatollah Khomeini, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter, Bonfire of the Vanities, borderless world, Brexit referendum, British Empire, Charlie Hebdo massacre, Chelsea Manning, colonial rule, coronavirus, COVID-19, deplatforming, disinformation, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, Evgeny Morozov, fake news, Filter Bubble, high-speed rail, Index librorum prohibitorum, Jeff Bezos, Julian Assange, lockdown, Mark Zuckerberg, microaggression, Mikhail Gorbachev, Minecraft, New Urbanism, post-truth, pre–internet, QAnon, Ralph Nader, Saturday Night Live, Silicon Valley, source of truth, Steve Bannon, surveillance capitalism, undersea cable, W. E. B. Du Bois, WikiLeaks

See also book burning; class-based censorship; cultural censorship; First Amendment (US Constitution); freedom of speech; freedom of the press; imagery; religious censorship; tolerance; names of specific countries; names of specific war conflicts Chafee, Zechariah, Jr., 115 Charlemagne, 51 Charles II (king), 79 Charles V (king), 72, 75 Charlie Hebdo massacre (2015), 243 Charlottesville, Virginia, hate march (2017), 238, 240, 245 Charter of the Forest, 63 Chassaignon, Antoine, 140 The Cheap Meal (film), 164–65 Chicago Daily News (publication), 196 Chicago Times (publication), 157 Childe, V. Gordon, 16–17 Chile, 203 China: book censorship in, 1–2, 159; Cultural Revolution, 1, 3, 7, 9, 29; online censorship in, 12, 220, 221–22, 229, 233–37; release of forbidden news in, 255 Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–76), 1, 3, 7, 9, 29 Chopin, Frédéric, 187 Christianity: censorship of early, 42–46; conflicts of Roman State and, 46–51.

Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy by Laurent Richard, Sandrine Rigaud

activist lawyer, Airbnb, Amazon Web Services, centre right, Charlie Hebdo massacre, Chelsea Manning, citizen journalism, Citizen Lab, corporate governance, COVID-19, David Vincenzetti, Donald Trump, double helix, Edward Snowden, food desert, Jeff Bezos, Julian Assange, Kevin Kelly, knowledge worker, lockdown, Mohammed Bouazizi, NSO Group, offshore financial centre, operational security, Stuxnet, Tim Cook: Apple, unit 8200, WikiLeaks, Yom Kippur War, zero day

So who better to call for a chin-wag about how to proceed on our own potentially enormous leak? It helped that Bastian and Laurent were friends. The two had spent the academic year of 2016–17 together at the Knight-Wallace Fellowship program at the University of Michigan. Laurent had arrived in Ann Arbor in the wake of a punishing eighteen months, which included the Charlie Hebdo massacre, the arrest and imprisonment of Khadija Ismayilova, a groundless but still threatening libel suit filed against him, and the coup de grâce, a broken spine suffered in a car crash while on a reporting trip in Iraq. Laurent had decided to take a year away from the grind of investigative journalism, and the fellowship gave him the opportunity to hit pause long enough to try to get Forbidden Stories off the ground and funded.

Active Measures by Thomas Rid

1960s counterculture, 4chan, active measures, anti-communist, back-to-the-land, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, call centre, Charlie Hebdo massacre, Chelsea Manning, continuation of politics by other means, cryptocurrency, cuban missile crisis, disinformation, Donald Trump, dual-use technology, East Village, Edward Snowden, en.wikipedia.org, end-to-end encryption, facts on the ground, fake news, Fall of the Berlin Wall, false flag, guest worker program, information security, Internet Archive, Jacob Appelbaum, John Markoff, Julian Assange, kremlinology, Mikhail Gorbachev, military-industrial complex, Norman Mailer, nuclear winter, operational security, peer-to-peer, Prenzlauer Berg, public intellectual, Ronald Reagan, Russian election interference, Silicon Valley, Stewart Brand, technoutopianism, We are Anonymous. We are Legion, Whole Earth Catalog, WikiLeaks, zero day

Butz, Timothy C CADROIT Campbell, Duncan Canaris, Wilhelm Capra, Frank CARIC (Committee for Action/Research on the Intelligence Community) Carter, Jimmy CBS Evening News CEC (Central Election Commission) CEDADE Central Election Commission (CEC) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); Agee exposing; agent-report forms of; AIDS causes and; AM funding of KGB compared to; Berlin Tunnel and; BOB of; Clandestine Services of; Covert Action Information Bulletin and; covert funding by; Fifth Estate allegations of; forgery and; Headquarters Germany and; Helms and; Kampfverband investigation of; KGB (Barron) and; KgU and; on nuclear winter; Office of Policy Coordination of; Penkovsky’s work with; Phoenix Program of; QRPLUMB operation and; Red Brigades and; the Trust study of; UfJ and; see also LCCASSOCK CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) Chandra, Romesh Channel One Charlie Hebdo massacre Checkpoint Charlie Museum Cheka chemical weapons Chen, Adrian Chernobyl disaster Cherry, W. B. Chicago Tribune Chile China; see also Tanaka Memorial China Critic, The Chisholm, Janet Anne “Christian-Marxist” dialogue workshops Christian Science Monitor Church Committee CIA, see Central Intelligence Agency cigar box bomb of Strasbourg Click magazine Clinton, Hillary Colby, William Cold War, see specific topics Comintern, the Committee for Action/Research on the Intelligence Community (CARIC) Communist International Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Comrade J.

Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age by Brad Smith, Carol Ann Browne

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, AI winter, air gap, airport security, Alan Greenspan, Albert Einstein, algorithmic bias, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, barriers to entry, Berlin Wall, Big Tech, Bletchley Park, Blitzscaling, Boeing 737 MAX, business process, call centre, Cambridge Analytica, Celtic Tiger, Charlie Hebdo massacre, chief data officer, cloud computing, computer vision, corporate social responsibility, data science, deep learning, digital divide, disinformation, Donald Trump, Eben Moglen, Edward Snowden, en.wikipedia.org, Hacker News, immigration reform, income inequality, Internet of things, invention of movable type, invention of the telephone, Jeff Bezos, Kevin Roose, Laura Poitras, machine readable, Mark Zuckerberg, minimum viable product, national security letter, natural language processing, Network effects, new economy, Nick Bostrom, off-the-grid, operational security, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, pattern recognition, precision agriculture, race to the bottom, ransomware, Ronald Reagan, Rubik’s Cube, Salesforce, school vouchers, self-driving car, Sheryl Sandberg, Shoshana Zuboff, Silicon Valley, Skype, speech recognition, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs, surveillance capitalism, tech worker, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, Tim Cook: Apple, Wargames Reagan, WikiLeaks, women in the workforce

United States, 311n15 Carr, Dominic, 1–4, 8, 113 cars, see automobiles Catholic Church, 208–9 Cauce, Ana Mari, 182 cell phones, 34–35, 94, 158, 159, 200, 241, 270 Census Bureau, US, 242–43, 322n6, 323n9 Center for Rural Affairs, 157 Challenge Seattle, 186, 188, 327n40 Charlie Hebdo shooting, 26–28 Chesapeake, USS, 313n5 Cheyenne, Wyo., 331n8 China, 65, 68, 71, 138, 149, 274 Confucius in, 259, 263 hackers in, 251, 263 information technology and, 253, 258, 263–67 Microsoft and, 65, 250–52, 254–55, 259–61 philosophy and worldview in, 258–62 regulations and, 258 United States and, 249–68, 269 XiaoIce in, 255, 256 Christchurch Call to Action, 125–28, 300 Christchurch mosque shootings, 99–100, 102, 125–26 CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 107 Cicero, 205 Cisco, 120 Civil War, 10 Clapper, James, 310–11n4 Clinton, George, 319n36 Clinton, Hillary, 78, 81, 157, 278–82 technology strategy for 2016 presidential campaign, 278–82 CLOUD Act (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act), 56–59, 300 cloud computing, xiv, xviii, 35, 37, 42, 45, 47, 48, 163, 195, 264, 271, 302–3 Microsoft’s commitments to, 30, 33, 292 Code.org, 179 Cold War, 12, 40, 107, 116–18 collaboration, 300, 302–3 Colombia, 124 Columbia Data Center, xiv–xvii, 5 Columbia Law School, 50 Commerce Department, 134, 136, 138 Communications Decency Act, 98–99, 318n15 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 116 computer science, 170, 177–81, 184, 194–96, 199, 206, 207, 264, 325n11, 328n12, 334n1 biomedical science and, 273 Confucius, 259, 263 Congress, U.S., 7, 9, 22, 23, 47, 53, 55–57, 90, 98, 132, 148, 162, 180, 269, 283, 299, 314n10, 318n15, 323n9 elections and, 83–84 House of Representatives, 7, 56, 57, 176 Senate, see Senate, U.S.

Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts by Jill Abramson

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When protests erupted in Burma later that year and the government barred journalists from entering the country, a legion of local bloggers exposed the military’s campaign against its people. A true endorsement from the media establishment came in 2008, when YouTube won a Peabody, broadcasting’s most prestigious award, for “promoting a free exchange of ideas” in a way that “both embodies and promotes democracy.” The earthquake in Nepal, the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris, and popular uprisings like the Green Revolution, the Arab Spring, and the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, could be seen on YouTube almost as they unfolded, from the unprocessed point of view of those present. Cell phone videos of police violence, uploaded to YouTube, were transforming the criminal justice system.