Charlie Hebdo massacre

Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists
by Joan Smith
Published 5 Apr 2019

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
Published 25 Feb 2020

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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W., 71 Bush, George W., 71, 80 Byzantium, 201 Caldwell, Christopher, 84 Canada, birthrate in, 50 cancer, 211 Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Piketty), 30–31, 57–58 capitalism, 32, 181, 218 neo-Marxist critique of, 219–21 Piketty’s theory of, 30–31 rentier class and, 26, 30–31, 46 captured economies, 30 Carr, Nicholas, 107 Carter, Jimmy, 24 Carter presidency, 25–26 catastrophe, 189–203 climate change scenario for, 195–97, 200 economic scenario for, 191–95, 200 mass migration scenario for, 197–99, 200 unforeseen, 189–91, 202 Catholics, Catholicism, 103, 156, 183, 227 decline in church attendance by, 100 lapsed, 218 liberal, 110 traditionalist, 206–7, 208 Vendée massacre of, 206 Cavafy, C. P., 157–58 Central Intelligence Agency, 144 centrists, 85, 106, 182 sclerosis as viewed by, 76–79 Cernovich, Mike, 227 Césaire, Aimé, 207–8 Challenger explosion, 2 change: perceived vs. actual speed of, 11 see also progress Charlie Hebdo massacre, 155 Charlottesville, Va., 2017 killing in, 133, 134 Chase, David, 95 Chen Tianyong, 168 Chesterton, G. K., 13, 228, 238–39 children, of older parents, 60–61 Children of Men (film), 65–66 Children of Men (James), 47–50, 66 China, 5 aging population of, 167 birthrate in, 50 capital flight from, 168, 169 Christianity in, 228–29 consolidation of power in, 167–68 economic growth in, 164–65, 167 economic slowdown in, 193 emergence of decadence in, 165–69 Internet censorship in, 139 Ming dynasty abandonment of sea voyages by, 5 potential limitations on growth in, 168–69 social credit systems in, 138–40 surveillance in, 139 Chinese political system, 199 as alternative to liberal order, 164–69 Christianity: beginnings of, 222, 223, 237 Eurafrican revitalization of, 207–8 liberal, 103 predicted revival of, 103 renewal of, as path to renaissance, 228–29 unexpected resurrections in, 228 civilizations: clash of, 159 expansionism and, 3–4 civil liberties: colleges and universities and, 141–43 “safe” vs.

How Long Will Israel Survive Threat Wthn
by Gregg Carlstrom
Published 14 Oct 2017

A poll conducted in December 2015 found that 77 per cent of Jewish Israelis felt unsafe, and that nearly half were reluctant to attend public Hanukkah celebrations.1 After an attack in a supermarket, one of Israel’s largest grocery chains pulled the knives and scissors from its aisles—even the pizza cutters, just to be safe. Gun stores, on the other hand, did a brisk business. The number of new applications for firearms permits soared. In most countries, wars and acts of terrorism bring a “rally-around-the-flag” effect—as in the United States after 9/11, or France after the Charlie Hebdo massacre. Historically, Israel was no different; indeed, it had pulled together as recently as 2014, when the army had gone to war against Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza. Months later, a prominent leader of the settler movement reminisced almost nostalgically about the “sense of togetherness” he felt during the war.

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Israeli exports to, 134; opposition to BDS, 135 Facebook: xv, 37, 53, 81–2, 88, 90, 103, 113, 119, 157, 170, 188, 203 Falashmura: xv–xvi Farage, Nigel: 171, 209 Fatah: 153 Federman, Noam: writings of, 148–9 Feiglin, Moshe: 105 First Intifada (1987–93): 70, 132, 151; casualties of, 152 First Temple: 13 First World War (1914–18): 217 Forward, The: 47; editorial staff of, 132 Fox, Steven: Chief Executive of CCAR, 129, 144 Fraenkel, Naftali: abduction of (2014), 33–4, 117 France: 43, 57, 200; Charlie Hebdo Massacre (2014), xiv; Hyper Cacher Market Attack (2015), 78–9; Jewish diaspora in, 78–9; Nice, 174; Nice Truck Attack (2016), 174, 210; Paris, 78, 80, 85, 182, 200 Francis, Pope: 22–3; visit to Israel (2013), 23 Free Druze Youth Organization: 22 Friedman, David: 142; background of, 141; US Ambassador to Israel, 141 Friedman, Moshe: founder of KamaTech, 96 Fuchs, Amir: 176 Fukuyama, Francis: End of History, The (1992), 213 Gaffney, Frank: founder of Center for Security Policy, 143 Gal-On, Zehava: 54 Gamliel, Gila: 180 Gantz, General Benny: 168 Garbuz, Yair: 173 Gaza: xiv, xviii, 29, 42, 45, 49–51, 57, 59–60, 68, 107, 116–17, 123, 153; borders of, 54, 111–12, 151, 205; coastline of, 210; disengagement of Israel from (2005), 118, 148, 218, 233 Gaza Strip: 56; Gaza City, 58, 168; Israeli Occupation of, 6; Khan Younis, 46; Rafah, 49 Germany: 57, 82, 91, 182; Berlin, 185 Ghattas, Basel: 24 Gingrich, Newt: ‘Contract with America’, 130 Ginsburgh, Yitzhak: 20 Glick, Yehuda: attempted assassination of (2014), 64 Golan, General Yair: Israeli Deputy Chief of Staff, xvii Golan Heights: 3; Israeli military forces on, 113 Goldberg, J.J.: 47; Jewish Power (1997), 132 Goldstein, Baruch: shooting rampage conducted by (1994), xi Goldstein, Lillian: 9 Goldstein, Matti: 64 Goor, Hanna: 174–5 Gopstein, Bentzi: leader of Lehava, 147 Gorbachev, Mikhail: 26 Goren, Shlomo: Chief Rabbi of IDF, 67 Gove, Michael: 211 Great Recession (2008–10): 80 Greece: 189 Green Line: 218 Grossman, David: 176 Grossman, Gilad: 229 Grunis, Asher: 226 Guardian, The: 5, 221 Gur, Haviv Rettig: 212 Ha’aretz: 29, 34, 49–50, 101, 110, 116, 165, 170, 175, 181, 185, 203 Haber, Eitan: 159 Hadash: electoral performance of (1981), 124; ideology of, 83; introduction of no-confidence motion in Knesset (1982), 43–4; members of, 53, 115 Haganah: personnel of, 199 Haifa University: 88 HaKol HaYehudi: 149 Halevy, Efraim: 144, 165; background of, 162–3 Halper, Jeff: founder of International Committee Against Home Demolitions, 70 Haman: xi Hamas: xiv, 37, 43, 47–8, 50, 55–6, 58–61, 107, 111, 138, 151, 153, 204, 210, 221; arsenal of, 55; capture of Gilad Shalit (2006), 46, 56, 188; militants, 46 Hamdan, Khair al-Din: killing of (2014), 73 Haniyeh, Ismail: 59; popularity of, 59 Har Nof: 63–4, 87, 150 Harel, Amos: 34 Hasson, Tommy: 88 Hassoura, Abed: 41 HaTnuah: 178; members of, 19 Hazan, Oren: 232 Hebrew (language): 1, 8, 21, 27–9, 35, 46, 53, 65–6, 86, 93, 99, 120, 133, 140, 146, 158, 172, 174, 177, 179, 186, 210, 214; calendar, 199 Hebrew University: 154, 162; faculty of, 175 Henkin, Eitam: death of (2015), 150 Henkin, Na’ama: death of (2015), 150 Hermann, Dr Tamar: 53, 109; ‘Peace Index’, 109–10 Herut: 185 Herzl, Theodor: 65, 91; Der Judenstaat (1896), 92, 214 Herzliya Conference (2014): 31; key figures present at, 32, 125, 166, 169 Herzog, Isaac: 1, 8, 57, 67, 106, 110, 112–13, 117, 119–20, 122, 156, 164–5, 173, 178–9; electoral performance of (2015), 120–1; family of, 151; leader of Zionist Camp, 104 Herzog, Michael: family of, 151 Hezbollah: 43, 107, 212 Hilltop Youth: 147–8; members of, 149; price tag attacks conducted by, 148 Hinduism: 216 Hirsch, Samson Raphael: 91 Histadrut: 185 Hitler, Adolf: Mein Kampf, 173 Hotevely, Tzipi: 234; invitation to Lehava to attend Knesset (2011), 147; Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, 147 Human Rights Watch: criticism of Israeli home demolitions, 70 Hussein, Saddam: 108, 232 Hussein of Jordan, King: 163 i24: 179 Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre (1994): 159 Im Tirtzu: 7–8; campaigns against liberal NGOs, 176 Indyk, Martin: 9, 139, 159 Institute for National Security Studies: 168; Annual Conference (2016), 139 International Committee Against Home Demolitions: members of, 70 International Crisis Group: personnel of, 197 Iran: 6, 108, 164; Arak, 165; nuclear program of, 25, 162, 165–6, 213; Tehran, 4, 161, 163 Iraq: 24, 68 Iron Dome system: 47, 51; success of, 54–5 Islam: xiv, 22, 194–5, 216; Qur’an, 28; Ramadan, 30, 35, 40, 42; shari’a, 89–90; Sunni, 217 Islamic Jihad: 61, 221; suicide attacks conducted by, 152 Islamic Movement: 71 Islamic State: 107, 138, 210; territory occupied by, 68 Islamism: 151, 210, 213; Sunni, 18 Israel: xiii, xv, 3, 12–13, 23, 27, 34, 39, 55–7, 60–1, 67, 70–1, 74–5, 79, 92, 99, 102, 110, 119, 123–4, 130, 145–6, 168, 186, 199, 204, 211, 222–3, 232–3, 235–6; Abu Ghosh, 192; Acre, 1; Arab population of, 24, 73–5, 84; as a Jewish state, 85–6, 92, 171, 196–7, 218; Ashdod, 101, 112, 119–20, 174–5, 194; Ashkelon, 50, 52, 190; Be’er Sheva, 1, 208; Beit Jann, 88; Bethlehem, 15, 23; Caesarea, 108; Christian population of, 22–3; conscription legislation of, 21; Dimona, 200; East Jerusalem, 3, 6, 17, 35, 40, 64, 67–70, 72, 104–5, 135, 150, 153–5, 187; education system of, 74, 76–7, 173; Eli, 13; Elon Moreh, 13. 228; Galilee, 20–1, 72, 87, 114–15, 158, 172–3, 205; GDP per capita, 135; Hadera, 189; Haifa, 45, 73, 88, 114, 172, 186, 189, 191, 205–6, 208, 221; Hebron, xii, 1, 16, 19, 33–4, 72, 159, 170, 234; Jaffa, 30, 47–8, 66, 146, 155, 195; Jenin, 33, 152; Jerusalem, xiii–xiv, 2, 13, 23, 32, 40, 45, 61, 65–8, 78, 80, 88, 95, 117, 129, 131, 135, 146–7, 150–1, 153, 155, 172, 183, 187, 193, 198, 205, 231, 234; Jish, 20, 25–6; Jisr az-Zarqa, 74; Kedumim, 13; Kiryat Gat, 150–1; labor law (1951), 193; Lydda/Lod, 167; Mount Carmel Wildfires (2010), 206; Nablus, 13–14, 33, 145, 152, 225; Nazareth, xv, 24, 75; Negev, 1, 112, 134, 158, 172, 200; Old City, 35, 41–2, 65–7, 69, 150–2, 154, 159, 193; Petah Tikva, xiii; Ra’anana, xiii; Sderot, 54–5, 111–12, 120; Shiloh, 13; Soreq, 200; Tel Aviv, xiii, 8, 25, 44–5, 47–8, 50–4, 59, 61, 64, 66, 73–6, 78, 80–4, 97, 99–101, 109, 116, 118–19, 121–2, 134, 139, 155–6, 160, 162, 164, 170, 172, 175–6, 183, 186, 189, 191, 193, 198, 201–2, 205, 212, 220, 222; unemployment rates in, 74, 95, 107; West Jerusalem, 63, 154; Yanuh-Jat, 87 Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA): 180, 188; first radio transmissions (1948), 186; funding of, 180 Israel Broadcasting Corporation (Kan): development of (2016), 188; proposals for, 180 Israel Defence Forces (IDF): xi, xvi–xvii, 126, 158, 160, 169, 171, 173, 186, 229; Central Command, 67; Circassian personnel of, 22, 167–8; Druze personnel of, 22; Home Front Command, 54–5; Nahal Brigade, 170 Israel Democracy Institute (IDI): 8, 53, 109, 174, 184, 233; personnel of, 53, 86, 125, 176; Seventh Eye, The, 177 Israel HaYom: 36, 141, 176–7, 186; weekday print run of, 176 Israel HaYom bill: 176, 178 Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty (1994): 163, 212, 218 Israel Project, The: Tower, The, 187 Israel Railways: 189 Israeli Association for Ethiopian Jews: personnel of, 76 Israeli-Palestinian Chamber of Commerce: 135 Israeli High Court: 71 Italy: Milan, 164 J Street: lobbying efforts of, 10, 142 Jabotinsky, Ze’ev: 9, 91, 166 Jarrah, Sheikh: 41–2 Al Jazeera: 48, 206 Jerusalem Post: 38, 104, 177–8, 202 Jesus Christ: 23, 26, 72 Jewish Agency: 78; personnel of, 92 Jewish Federations of North America: 164 Jewish Home: 8, 178; development of, 118; ideology of, 119; members of, 32, 36–7, 100, 104, 117–18, 157; supporters of, 17, 125 Jewish National Fund: xv Jewish Power: 114 Jewish Telegraphic Agency: 44 Jewish Underground: members of, 201 Jewish Voice for Peace: 132 Johnson, Boris: removal of pro-BDS adverts from London Underground stations (2016), 221 Joint List: electoral performance of (2015), 195; formation of (2014), 115; members of, 111, 117 Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of: 7, 70; Amman, 163; military of, 201 Jordan, River: 7, 201 Joseph’s Tomb: 14 Judaism: xiv, xvi, 3–4, 10–11, 19, 22, 25, 32, 35, 41, 43, 71, 85, 96, 104, 109, 118, 140, 149–50, 180–1, 195–6, 200, 211, 214, 217, 235–6; Ashkenazi, 9, 11, 30, 42, 67, 77–8, 82, 99–101, 126, 172–3; conversion to, 57, 64, 76, 129, 136–7, 143; diaspora, 6, 10–12, 79–80, 87, 122, 212; Hanukkah, xiv, 232; Hasidic, 96–7; intra-Jewish discrimination, 77; kosher, 190; mikvah, 76; Mizrahi, 11, 74, 77–8, 99, 101, 126, 172–3; Orthodox, 6, 8, 27, 64, 66, 100, 136–8; Passover, 16; persecution of, 7, 9–10, 23, 78–9; Purim, xi, 116; Reform, 27, 129–30, 136–8, 144; Revisionist, 91; Rosh Hashanah, 56, 150; secular, 94, 197; Sephardic, 11, 26, 172; Shabbat, 10, 86, 92–4, 100–1, 116, 118, 170, 189–94, 229; Talmud, xvi, 94; Torah, 91–2, 94, 136, 138, 191 Jumblatt, Walid: 22 Justice and Development Party (AKP) (Turkey): 217 Kach: 148; banning of (1994), xvii, 41, 148–9 Kafr Kanna: 72–3 Kafr Qassem Massacre (1956): 30 Kahane, Meir: xvii, 41; family of, 149 Kahanist Movement: 148 Kahlon, Moshe: 220; Israeli Finance Minister, 134, 188, 227; leader of Kulanu, 112 Kakon, Rachel: 81 KamaTech: 96 Kamir, Orit: 175 Kara, Ayoub: 87 Karelitz, Avraham Yeshaya: meeting with David Ben-Gurion (1952), 93–4 al-Kasrawi, Ramzi: shooting conducted by (2015), xii Katsav, Moshe: President of Israel, 26 Katz, Yisrael: 189 Kehilat Bnei Torah Attack (2014): 63–4, 150; casualties of, 87 Kenya: 216 Kerry, John: 232–3; meetings with Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas (2014–15), 31; US Secretary of State, 31, 138 Keshet: 179 Kfar Etzion: 38; establishment of, 15–16 Khalloul, Shadi: 21–3, 26 Khatib, Hashim: 75 kibbutz: 21, 55–6, 59, 88, 120, 126, 132, 185, 203; presence of men in IDF, 158, 168 King, Aryeh: 72 King Jr, Martin Luther: 116 Kirby, John: 139, 227 Kissinger, Henry: 164, 227 Knesset: xv, 8–9, 17, 19, 21, 24, 27–8, 43–5, 87, 90–1, 106, 108, 112–13, 129–30, 138, 157, 159–60, 177, 186, 193–4, 198, 222, 227–8; Ethics Committee, 184; Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, 167; mandates in, 103; members of, 51, 74, 77, 84, 98, 106, 171, 196, 200, 220; proposed self-limitations on power of, 175–6 Kulanu Party: 222; members of, 110, 112 Kurds (ethnic group): territory inhabited by, 218 Kurtzer, Daniel: 139 Kushner, Jared: family of, 142 Labor Party: xv, 2, 7, 16–17, 28, 43, 100–1, 122, 185, 199, 202–3, 219, 221; electoral defeat of (1996), 121; electoral performance of (1981), 124; members of, 57, 110, 157, 178–9, 200, 205; pre-election rally of (2015), 173; supporters of, 125; 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The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction
by Mark Lilla
Published 19 Oct 2015

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
Published 14 Oct 2019

See Paradise Papers Australia, 43, 127, 147, 154, 161 Austria, 94 Aviva Holdings Limited, 111 Azerbaijan, 261–65, 277–78 Azerbaijan America Alliance, 264–65 Backslash Distributors, 36–38 Báez, Lázaro, 192–94, 217, 269 Bahamas, 29–30, 34, 35–38, 55, 76, 86, 256, 266, 280 mafia in, 29–30 Mossfon operations, 29–30, 35–38, 121, 133 tax havens, 24, 29–30, 35–38, 55, 64, 70, 121, 133 Bahamas Software, 36–38, 77 Baku, 263–65 Bale, Peter, 226–27, 273–74 banking, 47–60, 79 Bank Rossiya network, 90–102 Commerzbank raid, 5–10 Germany, 205–10 HSBC, 47–60, 79, 137–44, 177–81, 186–90, 195–99 Iceland, 118–24, 214–16, 223, 229 offshore credit cards, 70–74 offshore system, 47–60, 68–74, 79, 130–44 Russia and, 88–102, 252, 256 sexism in, 52–53 Swiss Leaks HSBC investigation, 177–81, 186–90, 195–99, 202–4, 216, 224–25 2008 crisis, 116–17, 123–24, 128–29, 184, 197, 214, 215, 229, 239, 257, 258, 261 UBS, 130–32, 135–37 See also specific banks Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), 66–67 Bank Rossiya, 90–102 Barmanbek, Imre, 266 Bayrock Group, 256–61 Bay Street Boys, 30 BBC, 186, 217 bearer shares, 26, 35–36, 115, 132–35, 140, 168, 181, 210 Beijing, 104, 165, 166, 167 Belgium, 53, 198–99, 258 Belize, 24 Belongers, 20–23, 25, 32–33 Bergman, Sven, 216, 228–30, 239 Berke, Richard, 152 Bermuda, 24, 84, 280–81, 283 Bethancourt, Rómulo, 270 Bharara, Preet, 245, 252 Big Tobacco, 149, 164 Birkenfeld, Bradley, 130–31, 249 Bitcoin, 284 Björgólfur family, 119, 122 Blackwater, 202 Blairmore Holdings, 133, 240 Bloomberg News, 164, 245 bluefin tuna industry, 149–51, 157 Blue Ocean Finance Limited, 140–41 Blum, Jack, 66, 67, 70, 72 Bobrov, Vladimir, 102 Boehner, John, 265 Boncamper, Malchus Irvin, 183–84 Bonny Island National Liquefied Gas Project, 55 bootlegging, 29–30 Bordachenko, Edward, 101 Borodin, Pavel, 92–93 Botín, Emilio, 197–98 Bourdon, William, 180, 181 Bo Xilai, 171–73 Bransten, Eileen, 109–10 Brazil, 185 Lava Jato scandal, 284 Mossfon operations, 231–32, 270–71 Brezhnev, Leonid, 262 British Virgin Islands (BVI), 19–33, 34, 35, 50, 54, 55, 90, 95, 99, 166, 233, 268 anti-money-laundering laws, 132–35, 182 bearer shares and, 132–34 Belongers, 20–23, 25, 32–33 double tax treaty, 21–22 drug trade, 27–28 Mossfon operations, 19–33, 41, 42, 56, 80–87, 121–23, 129, 132–45, 161, 169, 182–84, 268, 285 origins as a tax haven, 21–24 Panama Papers and, 268–70 population, 23 public registries law and, 283–84 tax havens and offshore system, 19–33, 41, 42, 56, 72, 80–87, 99, 121–23, 129, 132–45, 161, 169, 182–84, 268 Broadhurst, Nancy, 30–31, 193 Bronstein, Scott, 233 Brooks, Richard, 185, 186, 188 Brooks Trading, 122 Brothelgate, 279 Brothers Circle, 92 Brown & Root, 55 BTA Bank, 260 Buchholz, Dieter, 135–36 Burson-Marsteller, 201–2 Burton, Dan, 264 Bush, George W., 73, 75, 137 Butler, Paul, 21–22 Buzenberg, Bill, 149, 150, 161, 273 BVI Financial Services, 61 Cabra, Mar, 157, 160–65, 173, 177, 179–81, 187, 189, 195–99, 209–10, 213, 217–25, 243, 246–47, 274 Caicos, 24 Caijing, 164–65, 173–75 Camarena, Enrique “Kiki,” 44, 45 Cameron, David, 133, 240 Cameron, Ian, 133, 240 Campagnoli, José María, 192–93 Campbell, Duncan, 149, 152, 158 Canada, 154, 252 Caraballo, Javier, 244, 246, 269–70 Cardona, Christian, 278–79, 282–83 Caro Quintero, Rafael, 44–46 Caruana Galizia, Daphne, 237, 275–79 assassination of, 275, 278–80, 282–83 Caruana Galizia, Matthew, 188, 222, 237, 275, 278–80 Caruana Galizia, Paul, 278 Carvajal, Rigoberto, 157–58, 180–81, 188, 196, 209, 213, 218, 223, 248 Casey, William, 60 Casper, Norman, 63 Castle Bank and Trust Company, 63 Castro, Fidel, 30 Catholic Church, 12, 20 Cavendish International, 54 Cayman Islands, 4, 23, 66, 98, 115, 140 Center for Public Integrity (CPI), 148–52, 161, 187, 225–27 ICIJ independence from, 273–74 Central 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 Clinton, Bill, 154, 165 Clinton, Hillary, 250, 251, 254 CNN, 19 CNN Türk, 266, 267 cobalt mining, 281 cocaine, 17–18 Cohen, Leon, 140–41 Cohen, Mauricio, 140–41 Cohen, Michael, 283 Cold War, 7, 60, 89, 93 Cologne, 7, 20 Colombia, 11, 137, 281 drug trade, 17, 44, 46 Columbia University, 150, 157, 180, 225 Comey, James, 250 Commerzbank, 205–10 commodities trades, 17 Commonwealth, 165, 174, 244 Commonwealth Trust Limited, 145, 155 Communism, 91, 163, 170, 171, 262 Community Action, 11 Congo, 53, 259, 281 Congress, U.S., 17, 29, 69, 75–76, 91, 265 HSBC investigation, 139–44 offshore tax evasion investigations, 65–66, 72–73, 139–44, 245–46, 254 tax cuts of 2017, 283 Trump and, 254–55 Constable, John, The Lock, 115 Contadora, 35 Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, 57 Cook, Captain James, 31 Cook Islands, 115, 154, 280 copper mining, 281 Cornejo, Sandra de, 77–78, 83, 184, 284 Cornelia Company, 115 Coronel, Sheila, 157, 225, 227 Correa, Rafael, 242–43 Costa Rica, 10, 41, 45, 46, 157, 158, 180 counterfeiting, 36 Microsoft software, 36–38 credit cards, 70–74 Crédit Commercial de France, 52 Crédit Lyonnais, 81–82 Credit Suisse, 137, 170, 182–83 Cross Trading, 32 Crusades, 28 cryptocurrencies, 284 Cuba, 9, 137 communism, 9 mafia, 30 Curatola, Eugenio, 84–85 currency trades, 68 Customs, U.S., 127, 187 Cyprus, 24, 52, 61, 62, 86, 90 banking crisis, 276 Manafort and, 283 tax havens, 24, 92–93, 99–100, 123 Damelo Group, 101 Damiano, Juan Pedro, 240 Daniels, Stormy, 283 Daphne Project, 283 Darfur, 87 Darvishi, Kamal, 264 Davet, Gérard, 181, 187 DEA, 44–46 Degas, Edgar, Danseuses, 107 Degiorgio, Alfred, 279, 282–83 Degiorgio, George, 279, 282 Delaware, 2, 4, 15, 65, 254, 256 tax havens, 15, 20, 22, 31, 35, 68, 104, 125, 285 Deloitte & Touche, 170, 200 Delta State, 32 del Tiempo, Arturo, 199 Deltour, Antoine, 184, 202, 249 Democratic Party, 282 Deng Jiagui, 171 Deng Xiaoping, 170, 171 Denmark, 79, 232 Deripaska, Oleg, 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, 10, 17 as nominee director, 26 Panama Papers and, 235–39, 244–48, 268–72, 274 retirement of, 211–13 UN career, 14–16 Forbes, 100, 109 Forbidden Stories, 282–83 Ford, F.

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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
Published 11 Sep 2016

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
Published 10 Oct 2016

See also names of specific countries artificial borders in, 6, 109, 115–20, 136 and China, 60–61, 84, 119, 122, 125, 126–31 civil wars and ethnic conflicts, 116–20, 123–29 climate and terrain, 110–14, 115, 120–22, 129, 131–32 colonial period, 115–20, 123, 125 and Cuba, 125–26 energy resources, 60, 121, 122–23, 125–27, 131–32 Homo sapiens origins, 110, 112, 118 independence movement, 116 Islamists, 117, 121, 123–25, 128–29 isolation of, 6, 110–11, 114–15 languages, 113–14, 118, 131–32 natural resources, 60, 114, 118–23, 125–29, 131–32 rivers, 109, 113–14, 115, 120–22, 131–32 and Russia, 34, 125–26 size, 111–13 and the United States, 84 aircraft carrier battle groups, 7, 38–39 Aksai Chin, 36–37, 46 Alaska, 8–9, 16–17, 72, 174, 240–41, 243, 246 Alawites, 144–45, 160 Albania, 3–4, 14, 20–21, 86–87, 91, 98 albedo effect, 247 Aldrin, Buzz, 262 Alexander the Great, 5, 139 Algeria, 136 Ali (son of Muhammad), 137, 138, 144 Alps, 86–87, 89, 91 al-Qaeda, 4–5, 146–47, 151, 182, 183, 185, 188 Amazon rainforest, 118, 215, 231 Amazon River, 215, 218, 231–32 American Revolutionary War (1775–83), 66–67 Amman, 133, 141, 142, 153, 156 Amundsen, Roald, 244–45 Anatolian Plain, 161 Andaman Sea, 168–69 Andes Mountains, 215, 218–19 Angola, 60, 109, 112, 116, 118, 119–20, 125–28, 130 Antarctic, 238–39 Appalachian Mountains, 62–63, 65, 66–68 Aqaba, 153 Arabian Desert, 135 Arabian Sea, 133, 168–69, 171, 176, 179, 181 Arab Spring, 43, 164–67 Arctic/Arctic Circle, 8–9, 240–41, 242–57 climate and terrain, 243 energy resources, 6–7, 34, 72, 242, 248–49, 251, 254, 255–57 expeditions, 243–45 global warming effects, 242, 245–48, 246, 255, 261 icebreakers, 253–54 New Great Game, 255–57 and Russia, 6, 15, 16, 19, 243, 249, 250–57 sovereignty disputes, 250–57 and the United States, 243, 249, 253–54 Arctic Council, 249, 255–56 Arctic Ocean, 240–41, 243, 250, 254 Arctic Sea, 8–9, 15 Argentina, 215, 217, 220, 221, 229, 232, 233–34, 235–38 Arizona, 62–63, 71, 222 Armenia, 8–9, 20, 29, 31, 86–87, 133, 141, 158 Armitage, Richard, 183 Arunachal Pradesh, 46, 189–90 Assad, Bashar al-, 145 Assad, Hafez al-, 145 Assam, 176, 178, 190 Atacama Desert, 215 Atatürk, 162, 164 Atlantic Ocean, 62–63, 86–87, 109, 110–11, 114, 215, 246 Australia, 5, 76, 79 Austria, 32, 86–87, 91 Azerbaijan, 8–9, 18, 20, 29, 133, 141 Baffin Island, 240–41 Baghdad, 150 Bahamas, 62–63 Bahrain, 7, 78, 82–83, 133 Balboa, Vasco Núñez de, 226 Balkan states, 3–4, 97–98 Baltic Sea, 8–9, 12, 23, 28, 32, 86–87, 96, 107 Baltic States, 8–9, 14, 16, 18, 20–21, 27–29, 31, 86–87, 200 Baluchistan, 168–69, 171, 175, 176, 177, 187 Bangladesh, 36–37, 60, 168–69, 171–74, 176, 260–61 Banks Island, 240–41 Barents Sea, 8–9, 240–41, 246, 250–51 Bashir, Omar al-, 128 Basra, 139, 141 Bay of Bengal, 36–37, 60, 168–69, 171–72, 176, 192, 260 Bedouins, 142 Beijing, 36–37 Belarus, 8–9, 20, 32, 86–87 Belearic Islands, 86–87 Belgium, 86–87, 118 Belize, 221, 223, 226 Benghazi, 116–17 Bering Sea, 8–9, 11–12, 245, 254 Bering Strait, 8–9, 16–17, 219, 240–41, 244 Berlin Wall, 14 Bert, Melissa, 252 Bessarabia, 30 Bhutan, 36–37, 168–69, 171, 176, 190 Bhutto, Benazir, 183 bin Laden, Osama, 185, 188 Bismarck, Otto von, 85, 97–98 Bjarnason, Björn, 253 Black Sea, 8–9, 15, 16, 23, 30, 32, 86–87, 90, 91, 133, 163 Boko Haram/Wilayat al Sudan al Gharbi, 123–25 Bolivar, Simón, 220 Bolivia, 215, 220–21 Borneo, 55 Bosnia-Herzegovina, 3, 86–87, 91 Bosporus, 22, 23, 163–64 Botswana, 109, 130 Brahmaputra River, 172 Brasilia, 232 Brazil, 83, 215, 217, 218, 220, 229, 231–35, 236 Brazilian Shield, 232–33 BRICS (Brazil, Russia, China, and South Africa), 235 Brunei, 55, 58 Buenos Aires, 233, 236 Bulgaria, 14, 20–21, 29, 32, 86–87, 90, 91, 98, 133 Burma, 36–37, 42, 46, 60, 78, 168–69, 171, 172, 176, 190, 191, 209 Burundi, 109, 119, 120, 131 Bush, George W., 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
Published 13 Feb 2018

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.

Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, From the Ancients to Fake News
by Eric Berkowitz
Published 3 May 2021

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.

21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by Yuval Noah Harari
Published 29 Aug 2018

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.

Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy
by Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud
Published 17 Jan 2023

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: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
by Thomas Rid

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 and Carol Ann Browne
Published 9 Sep 2019

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
Published 5 Feb 2019

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.

The Rough Guide to France (Travel Guide eBook)
by Rough Guides
Published 1 Aug 2019

Meanwhile, the city’s Socialist and first woman mayor, Anne Hidalgo, is continuing and expanding upon the green policies of her popular predecessor, Bertrand Delanoë, creating a more cycle-friendly environment and reclaiming for pedestrians more of the riverbank, as well as the city’s famous squares, place de la Bastille and place de la Nation. In the wake of the horrific events of 2015, when Paris experienced two major terrorist massacres – the Charlie Hebdo shootings in January and the widespread attacks of November – the city experienced a renewed sense of unity and solidarity. This partly fuelled the bid to stage the Olympic Games in 2024, the success of which was a massive boost to the city and to Hidalgo. Consistent with her green policies, she has committed to foregrounding eco issues and sensible spending by repurposing existing sports venues rather than embarking upon a building frenzy, and has guaranteed that some events will be held in the poorer banlieue, in a bid to encourage development.

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Its brilliance lies in Horne’s love of the quirky, and often seedy, side of life, where fashion, celebrity, street culture and a host of incidental characters combine to create a rich tableau that tells you a lot more than comparable academic histories. Andrew Hussey The French Intifada. The “long war between France and its Arabs” made a timely appearance just after the Charlie Hebdo shootings and is indispensable reading for an understanding of the background to the simmering tensions between France and its Arab population. Colin Jones The Cambridge Illustrated History of France. A political and social history of France from prehistoric times to the mid-1990s, concentrating on issues of regionalism, gender, race and class.