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List of articles I recently found interesting to read.

• The Problem With “Net Zero”. How a perfectly decent phrase is used and abused at COP26
• Before the Signal Scandal, Yemen Was Already on Edge. US airstrikes have brought fear of renewed conflict, even as the familiar rhythms of Ramadan evoke a more peaceful past
• The Changing Face of the Houthis. How the movement adapted to dominate Yemeni politics
• How a Saudi Atheist Became a Killer. Taleb Abdulmohsen's warped sense of justice led him from secularism and feminism to an attack on a Christmas market
• Bird Flu and Other Assorted Pestilences. In his characteristic dystonic growl, he has called for increased research and policy focus on addressing the root causes of chronic disease.
• Revolutionary aid in Sudan. Since at the forefront of the 2018 revolution, Sudan’s social movements are now providing vital humanitarian aid throughout a devastating civil war. How have they kept their pro-democracy politics alive and adapted to a changing landscape?
• Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic. Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male
• Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech. Altering the internet's economic and digital infrastructure to promote free speech
• Rachid’s Journey: How Our Food System Exploits ‘Illegal’ Migration. Every year, tens of thousands of migrants arrive in southern Spain to work in the plastic greenhouses of Europe. This is the story of one of them.
• Vietnam’s Village of Moroccan Defectors. Hundreds of conscripted North Africans were sent to fight France’s war in Indochina — instead they found a new life in Southeast Asia
• The Liquid Imperialism That Engulfed Syria. How regional and global powers, internal colonialism and Salafi-jihadist subterfuge converged to short-circuit the Syrian struggle against despotism
• Understanding Somalia’s Destruction. How democracy and the postindependence ‘romance of the state’ gave way to disillusionment and a ruinous civil war
• How America’s War Devastated Afghanistan’s Environment. Those who lived near vast bases say the US military’s lack of protections poisoned the land and sickened their children, perhaps for generations
• Namibia marks colonial genocide as reparations hang in the balance. Dubbed “Germany's forgotten genocide”, and described by historians as the first genocide of the 20th Century, the systematic murder of more than 70,000 Africans is being marked with a national day of remembrance for the first time in Namibia.
• The Key to Understanding Iran Is Poetry. From angry cab drivers to COVID-19 to the war against ISIS, Iranians speak of their frustrations and hopes through verse
• On the Front Lines of the M23 Rebellion. A view from the turmoil of eastern Congo, where an insurgent movement is expanding its control