It’s how things worked when you went to the Cosa Nostra to ask for protection for you and your family in exchange for some ...

The US President has demanded £400bn’s worth of the besieged nation’s 17 rare earth metals for keeping Putin at bay - but has ...

The current task of the M23 army is to seize control of the part of eastern DRC that borders Rwanda and steal the rich mineral reserves of that region: gold, cobalt, and above all coltan, which is ...

Trump's latest self-enrichment racket has been to sue the media ... Why are major financial institutions investing millions in it? Is some of it for protection? How can we know? And what about the ...

Since the ‘90s, tech companies have been virtually immune from lawsuits over what’s posted on their platforms, even though ...

Long gone is talk of shared values, democracy, and independence — or the aim of blocking Russia’s western expansion.

By Gwynne Dyer<br /> <br /> What’s the difference between smash-and-grab raids and protection rackets? Not all that much from ...