Tag Archives for black globalization
Infographic: Mapped Warlord Entrepreneurs
One of my favorite infographic artists, Theo, has a cool new one about deviant globalization*: *Update: Sorry folks, there was a bigger version, but that doesn’t seem to be available now. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
Illicit Economy Underpinning Banksters
Wow. Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations’ drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer. Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs … Continue reading
Black Globalization Dynamics in California
This Los Angeles Times article does a great job describing how a community can be shaped by drug-based wealth. The exact same dynamic takes hold in Afghanistan, though due to illicit drugs instead of legal. The future of California is, … Continue reading
Business of Piracy
Good hard look at the dynamics of that market. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
Illicit Flu Vectors
Given the amount of illicit traffic (goods, humans, drugs) between Mexico and the United States, the number of cases both within that country and this may be much higher (given that participants in that network are much less likely to … Continue reading