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Of the 171 prisoners detained in Guantánamo, only about two dozen are hardened militants and war criminals. Most are like Noor Uthman Muhammed —hapless men who were in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Read more: “The Prisoners of Guantanamo” via Esquire.  Above: The house in Port Sudan where Noor grew up; he didn’t have a room in the house, and slept in the yard. Unable to find work or direction in life, in 1992 he left for the Khalden training camp in Khost, Afghanistan, to learn defensive jihad. Image by Greg E. Mathieson, Sr./MAI/Landov, via Esquire. 

Of the 171 prisoners detained in Guantánamo, only about two dozen are hardened militants and war criminals. Most are like Noor Uthman Muhammed —hapless men who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. 

Read more: “The Prisoners of Guantanamo” via Esquire. 

Above: The house in Port Sudan where Noor grew up; he didn’t have a room in the house, and slept in the yard. Unable to find work or direction in life, in 1992 he left for the Khalden training camp in Khost, Afghanistan, to learn defensive jihad. Image by Greg E. Mathieson, Sr./MAI/Landov, via Esquire. 

#politics,  #guantanamo  #news  #longreads  
13 hours ago on August 24, 2011 at 03:05pm with 2 notes
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sonicbloom11: Marwan Bishara, senior correspondent for Al-Jazeera, wants you to ask him anything

sonicbloom11:

Marwan Bishara, senior correspondent for Al-Jazeera, wants you to ask him anything

#Marwan Bishara  #Reddit  #Al-Jazeera  #news  #Qatar  
14 hours ago on August 24, 2011 at 02:33pm with 4 notes
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“Every year it has been dryer and dryer,” says Mohammad Amin, an official at the provincial department of water in Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of Balkh. “It is not just in Afghanistan—it is happening all over the world. There is less water and no rain.”  Why water, not the Taliban, might be Afghans’ greatest concern » Image by Anna Badkhen. Afghanistan, 2011. 

“Every year it has been dryer and dryer,” says Mohammad Amin, an official at the provincial department of water in Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of Balkh. “It is not just in Afghanistan—it is happening all over the world. There is less water and no rain.” 

Why water, not the Taliban, might be Afghans’ greatest concern »

Image by Anna Badkhen. Afghanistan, 2011. 

#afghanistan,  #news,  #explainer  
1 day ago on August 23, 2011 at 03:55pm with 28 notes
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Cool. (Originally published before South Sudan became an independent state in July)  futurejournalismproject: In February, the Globe and Mail published a map to show Moammar Gadhafi’s influence in Africa. In Mali, for example, Gadhafi’s money and diplomacy have helped resolve conflicts between rebels and the government. And in Sudan, the 20,000 troop peacekeeping mission includes African Union troops that are heavily funded by Gadhafi’s Libya. We modified the map for display here so click through to learn more. H/T: Torie (The Political Notebook) via G+.

Cool.

(Originally published before South Sudan became an independent state in July) 

futurejournalismproject:

In February, the Globe and Mail published a map to show Moammar Gadhafi’s influence in Africa.

In Mali, for example, Gadhafi’s money and diplomacy have helped resolve conflicts between rebels and the government.

And in Sudan, the 20,000 troop peacekeeping mission includes African Union troops that are heavily funded by Gadhafi’s Libya.

We modified the map for display here so click through to learn more.

H/T: Torie (The Political Notebook) via G+.

#libya  #Gadhafi  #Africa  #influence  #graphics  #explainers  
1 day ago on August 23, 2011 at 03:14pm with 168 notes
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futurejournalismproject:

As Libyan rebels entered Tripoli yesterday, Sky News reporter Alex Crawford appeared to be the only Western broadcast reporter on the scene.

How’d she do it? How’d she broadcast from the capital?

According to the Daily Telegraph “the astonishing footage from the streets of Tripoli was produced using an Apple Mac Pro laptop computer connected to a mini-satellite dish that was charged by a car cigarette lighter socket.”

Somewhere MacGyver is smiling.

(via theatlantic)

#Alex Crawford  #tripoli  #libya  #reporting  #journalism  #Mac  #MacGyver  
2 days ago on August 22, 2011 at 12:23pm with 125 notes
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A preview of tomorrow’s New York Times front cover, via @KatieS.

A preview of tomorrow’s New York Times front cover, via @KatieS.

#news  #nytimes  #libya  
3 days ago on August 22, 2011 at 12:24am with 6 notes

Illegal gold mining in the Madre de Dios rainforest of Peru is slowly but surely eroding one of the most pristine virgin rainforests on the planet. Thousands of tons of nutrient-rich soil and forests have disappeared or been buried beneath waste left by years of intense illegal mining.

For every gram of gold, it takes up to three times more mercury to extract it. It’s estimated that gold mining activity annually releases more than 35 tons of toxic mercury into the air and rivers of Madre de Dios, poisoning the food chain.

Steve Sapienza reports Image by Steve Sapienza. Peru, 2011.

#news  #peru  #gold mining  
6 days ago on August 18, 2011 at 03:56pm

I never asked the president, ‘Do I have permission to do this?’

Colin Powell, on the decision to declare genocide in Darfur, despite advice that evidence was inconclusive.
#darfur,  #africa  #sudan  #news  
1 week ago on August 17, 2011 at 12:35pm with 4 notes
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In case you missed it, The War in Hipstamatic - Afghanistan, through an iPhone. Images by Balazs Gardi, via Foreign Policy.

In case you missed it, The War in Hipstamatic - Afghanistan, through an iPhone.

Images by Balazs Gardi, via Foreign Policy.

#afghanistsan,  #news  #photojournalism  #war  
1 week ago on August 16, 2011 at 12:42pm with 16 notes
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China produces 57 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks every year, which requires over 1.18 million square meters of forest, according to the Forest Ministry’s statistics from 2004 to 2009. After China’s 1998 logging ban, attention turned to harvesting bamboo. The industry brings in millions of dollars each year for the country’s economy. But as demand for bamboo skyrockets, widespread over-harvesting could lead to a new ecological crisis in the region. Image by Sean Gallagher, who also has the story.

China produces 57 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks every year, which requires over 1.18 million square meters of forest, according to the Forest Ministry’s statistics from 2004 to 2009.

After China’s 1998 logging ban, attention turned to harvesting bamboo. The industry brings in millions of dollars each year for the country’s economy. But as demand for bamboo skyrockets, widespread over-harvesting could lead to a new ecological crisis in the region. Image by Sean Gallagher, who also has the story.

#china,  #photojournalism,  #environment  #photos  
1 week ago on August 15, 2011 at 03:10pm with 109 notes