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Qaddafi-era laws allow unauthorized foreigners, regardless of age, to be forced to work in the country without pay. A Libyan national can pick up migrants from a prison for a fee, become their “guardian,” and oversee private work for a fixed amount of time.
The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe
newyorker.com
In fact, far more Asian workers moved to the Americas in the 19th century to make sugar than to build the transcontinental railroad.
Making Sugar, Making 'Coolies': Chinese Laborers Toiled Alongside Black Workers on 19th-Century Louisiana Plantations
theconversation.com
Good and worthy professional journalists in these circumstances were not those who strove always and only to embody the virtues of truth-telling, or who concerned themselves only with the informational value of their news reports, but rather those who __grasped the multiple interests that were at stake in each news assignment and advanced these interests in an effective and situationally optimal manner.__
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
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