With Conrad on the Congo River – NYT

The Congo River. Christian Ziegler/National Geographic, via Getty Images The smoked monkeys brought the point home. During my first day on a boat on the Congo River, I’d embraced the unfamiliar: how to bend under the rail to fill my wash bucket from the river, where to step around the tethered goat in the dark …

Second man held over Tube bombing – BBC News

A second man has been arrested in connection with Friday's attack on a London Tube train. police say. The 21-year-old man was arrested in Hounslow, west London, on Saturday night under section 41 of the Terrorism Act. He was taken to a south London police station, where he remains in custody. An 18-year-old man is …

Teenager arrested in connection with London bombing – POLITICO

British police on Saturday arrested a teenager in connection with Friday’s bombing in London, which left dozens injured. An 18-year-old man was arrested under the Terrorism Act in the port town of Dover a day after a homemade bomb partially exploded on a subway train at Parsons Green station in West London, injuring 30 people. The …

The Weaponisation of History and Journalism – Paul Craig Roberts

Today our country is far more divided that it was in 1860. Identity Politics has taught Americans to hate each other. In the United States, facts, an important element of truth, are not important. They are not important in the media, politics, universities, historical explanations, or the courtroom. Non-factual explanations of the collapse of three …