A Prize for Lies
Why Did Nobel Winner Peter Handke Have a Secret Passport From Milosevic-Era Yugoslavia?
Austrian Peter Handke, whose controversial books are criticized for denying the Serb genocide in Bosnia, got a Yugoslav passport in 1999.
World
Shutterstock Employees Fight Company’s New Chinese Search Blacklist
More than 180 employees signed a petition opposing the censorship, which blocked searches for “Taiwan flag,” “dictator,” “yellow umbrella,” and more.
In Peru’s Operation Car Wash, Prosecutors and Witness Doctored Testimony to Avoid Contradictions
Leaked audio reveals Peruvian prosecutors asked a defendant to adjust his testimony about alleged Odebrecht graft to match “the prosecution’s line.”
Voices
Bernie Sanders Says Denying Aid Because of Hamas Is “Part of an Effort to Dehumanize Palestinians”
No other candidate in the U.S. presidential race comes close to Sanders in terms of his willingness to condition aid to Israel.
A CIA-Backed Militia Targeted Clinics in Afghanistan, Killing Medical Workers and Civilians
The secretive, pro-government forces are known for rolling into villages at night and leaving a trail of death and destruction.
Climate Crimes
How Plastic Pollution Is Making Central American Communities Uninhabitable
Companies are selling more cheap, disposable plastic products to developing countries like Guatemala. That trash is ruining rivers and the sea.
A "Black Vests" Movement Emerges in France to Protest Treatment of Undocumented Migrants
The gilets noirs took their name from the gilets jaunes, or yellow vests movement. They won't let migrants be blamed for global inequality.
How Jho Low, Wanted for History’s Biggest Heist, Parked His Money at an Obscure, Kuwaiti-Owned Bank
Before he was a fugitive, Jho Low's close relationship to a Kuwaiti royal helped grease his way into a bank on a tiny island in the Indian Ocean.
Voices
Everyone Is Denouncing the Syrian Rebels Now Slaughtering Kurds. But Didn't the U.S. Once Support Some of Them?
It’s a lazy, cynical rewriting of history to pretend these groups have nothing to do with the U.S., or were never backed by the U.S., in their current form.
A Prize for Lies
How the Nobel Prize Succumbed to the Literary Art of Genocide Denial
Peter Handke, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, niftily stops just short of outright denials of the Serb genocide of Bosnia’s Muslims.