Amanda Macias
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Covering the business of war @CNBC • Knight-Bagehot business fellow @Columbia • Grew up on Army missile ranges • ZOURah!
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https://www.cnbc.com/amanda-macias/ 20-01-2012 18:24:07
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A very sobering Oliver Carroll interview with Ukraine’s deputy mil intel chief. He says Chasiv Yar will fall eventually, that Ukraine is far from stabilising the front and that Russia is “generating a division of reserves” & wants to strike at Sumy/Kharkiv. economist.com/europe/2024/05…
“We've become addicted to explosions.” Stunning work by Bellingcat tracking the scale of home demolitions by a single IDF unit in Gaza. “Behind each ruined building, there is a decision & an action which has been carried out by a specific unit or person.” bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/2…
Good one from Polina Ivanova and max seddon on the recent arrest of Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov, the shifting fortunes of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, and the jockeying for power ahead of a possible Putin cabinet reshuffle. on.ft.com/49ZaeYi
Just in on Ukraine: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is likely to announce Friday the commitment of as much as $6 billion to bankroll long-term contracts to provide Ukraine with armaments including air defense systems and Patriot missiles bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics
Wow: Norah O'Donnell 🇺🇸 has taped an interview with Pope Francis, airing tonight. CBS says this is 'the first time a pope has given an in-depth, one-on-one interview to a U.S. broadcast network. It is a first-of-its-kind papal interview for an American television journalist.'
10 yrs ago today, an Afghan policeman shot an AK47 into a Toyota, killing The Associated Press war photographer Anja Niedringhaus, our Nieman Foundation colleague.
Reporter Kathy Gannon, hit by 7 bullets, went back to covering the region, to keep making 'the invisible visible.” sapannews.com/2024/04/01/a-t…