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Oct 10, 2024 | 
phillytrib.com | William Byrd
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
lawfaremedia.org | William Byrd |Jen Patja
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On today’s episode, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Director of the Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors, Co-Director of the Africa Security Initiative, and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution joins Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien to help make sense of the recent skirmishes in northern Mali between the junta, separatist groups, Islamists, and Russian mercenaries.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
lawfaremedia.org | William Byrd |Jacob Davey
The beginning of August 2024 saw some of the worst far-right rioting on the streets of the U.K. in decades. Following a mass stabbing at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class, which left three young girls dead and 10 wounded, a broad range of actors capitalized on the information void immediately following the attack. The dissemination of falsehoods led to violence targeting minority communities and mass disorder on the streets.
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May 7, 2024 | 
lawfaremedia.org | William Byrd |Jen Patja
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Andrew Reddie is an Associate Research Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the founder and faculty director of the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab. Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien spoke with Andrew about wargaming as a tool to manage risk from war to climate—and beyond. To receive ad-free podcasts, become a Lawfare Material Supporter at www.patreon.com/lawfare.
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May 6, 2024 | 
lawfaremedia.org | William Byrd
Editor’s note: The following article is based on remarks given by the author at the Afghan-American Chamber of Commerce’s private sector conference in Istanbul on March 4, 2024. Nearly three years into Taliban rule of Afghanistan following their August 2021 takeover, the Afghan economy remains weak, and faces serious risks of further decline.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
arxiv.org | William Byrd
arXiv:2402.08147 (cs) Download PDF Subjects: Software Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO); Programming Languages (cs.PL) Cite as: arXiv:2402.08147 [cs.SE] (or arXiv:2402.08147v1 [cs.SE] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2402.08147 Submission history From: David Brandfonbrener [ view email] [v1] Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:55:14 UTC (291 KB) Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic...
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
lawfaremedia.org | William Byrd
The Taliban unquestionably have drastically reduced opium poppy cultivation during the 2022-2023 growing season, roughly duplicating the percentage reduction they achieved in 2000-2001 when they were previously in power. This year’s poppy harvest is orders of magnitude smaller than last year’s and is much lower than in any year since the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) started producing estimates in 1994, except for 2001.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
tuftsdaily.com | William Byrd
In honor of the inauguration of University President Sunil Kumar, the University Chaplaincy held a multifaith celebration on Oct. 4 in Goddard Chapel. The event included expressions of hospitality from each of the diverse faiths represented by the University Chaplaincy, musical performances from a capella groups Ladies of Essence and Shir Appeal and an art installation of welcoming messages from the Tufts community.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
lawfaremedia.org | William Byrd
After the 9/11 attacks, which weighed on America for a generation, the U.S.-led complete military victory over the Taliban in 2001 brought an unexpected opportunity to end decades of destructive violent conflict in Afghanistan. Afghans and many Americans and other foreigners who worked on the country were aware of and strove to exploit this opportunity, which would have greatly benefited U.S. interests as well.
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Aug 2, 2023 | 
keloland.com | William Byrd |Bob Mercer
This is a developing story. FORT PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — An outside consultant said Wednesday he doesn’t recommend that Navigator look at placing an odorant in the carbon dioxide that would flow through the pipeline the company wants to build and run in South Dakota. The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission is trying to decide whether to grant a permit to the project that would remove CO2 from ethanol plants at Aurora, Chancellor and Hudson.
