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HOT DAMN this is a fun piece. “he bragged that he had never set foot in Texas without being arrested”

Had a great discussion with Jake Hanrahan on Wagner's post-mutiny operations in Africa, Africa Corps, and what it's like to disappear in a Malian black site. Subscribe to POPULAR FRONT and listen here! patreon.com/posts/246-what…

🔊 New POPULAR FRONT podcast episode out now, speaking to John Lechner about what the mercenaries of PMC Wagner have been up to since Prigozhin and Utkin got fried. ‣ Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wha… ‣ Support: patreon.com/popularfront

Contrairement au Mali, ni le Burkina Faso ni le Niger n’ont jamais accueilli Wagner. La Russie y est intervenue directement via Africa Corps, «Ce sont des missions de formation, voire de protection rapprochée de dirigeants», explique John Lechner. lefigaro.fr/international/…

Breaking & Entering is really having a moment

Sunday’s read: “Death is Our Business” (Bloomsbury U.S.) by John Lechner about Moscow’s PMCs, Wagner, and the confluence of the Kremlin’s geostrategic interests & Russian private gain abroad.

In São Gabriel da Cachoeira with my friend and Tariana teacher, Jovino. Tariana is an endangered Arawak language spoken along the Vaupés River in the Amazon.

“It’s an idea that Crews, the author of fifteen novels and countless pieces of long-form journalism, often returned to: there is the life that is lived, and then its rival, a counterlife, where every flaw is hidden and one can feel whole.”—Charlie Lee harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

A tour of American readerly tastes, from C19 sentimental novels to midcentury men’s literary fiction to the influencer literary culture of today. A great capsule survey, Dan Sinykin! nytimes.com/2025/06/25/sty…

Interesting point of view. warontherocks.com/2025/06/i-foug…

Not great news in Niger...a number of reported local mutinies, following on from earlier reports several weeks ago. What's interesting is that we're seeing this in Niger rather than Mali and Burkina Faso, which are suffering more from jihadists. rfi.fr/fr/afrique/202…

In the wild and in good company John Lechner

"DIOB starts with the breakup of Yugoslavia and those wars that have haunted the world ever since. Vladimir Putin cited the Kosovo “precedent” [in] Crimea, and Russian warlords like Igor Girkin, a Bosnian War veteran, went on to play a preeminent role in Eastern Ukraine."

🇲🇱 Speaking to John Lechner on why his wife proved to be the best wife ever as he was getting kidnapped in Mali. patreon.com/posts/bonus-18…

A few thoughts on today's large-scale and simultaneous attacks across Western Mali today, even though this is not even the complete list of attacks and incidents: jeuneafrique.com/1702706/politi… The first is that, as the article notes, this was the first major attack of its kind 1/7

🎙️John Lechner joins me on the latest episode of the Guns for Hire podcast. We discuss the #Wagner Group's recruitment methods, beauty pageants in the CAR, his experiences interviewing dozens of Russian mercenaries, and being spirited away by the security services in Mali 🎧

It's Franz Boas's birthday, always a good day to revisit his introduction to the Handbook of American Indian Languages, one of the few things that I think all (linguistic) anthropologists should read

U.N. sanctions more Haitian gangs | Miami Herald miamiherald.com/news/nation-wo…