It’s been two months+ since my last weekend read update. Long articles are my absolute favorite. Here are some of the recent ones I enjoyed/found interesting:
THE COYOTE BROS: HOW HARD PARTYING GUYS IN TEXAS BECAME IMMIGRANT SMUGGLERS – Just when you thought that human smugglers were shady coyotes packing immigrants into box trucks, think again – goo.gl/C6J2QL
THE MOSSAK FONSECA SCANDAL: DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS – A good primer on the law firm based out of Panama, and the source of the “Panama Papers,” which exposed massive money “hiding” by rich individuals across the globe. Still a developing story. – goo.gl/RyoeCW
THE VOYEUR’S MOTEL – Man, this one was good (and crazy). This is about a hotelier who designed his hotel specifically to spy on his guests. He never intruded. He didn’t film them. He just watched. And it’s being turned into a movie with Spielberg producing! – http://goo.gl/mJiI8D
THE NAZI UNDERGROUND – It’s not did he, but why did Hitler build a massive underground city (larger than the entire square footage of the White House) underneath a fortress in southwestern Poland? Was it to build nuclear weapons? To store bombers? To hide out? To hide gold? All of the above? Or was it the alien spacecraft… – http://goo.gl/NtXn0U
THE DAY WE DISCOVERED OUR PARENTS WERE RUSSIAN SPIES – Taken straight out of The Americans (actually it’s the other way around), these two brothers had no idea their parents were Russian spies. Until the FBI arrived and arrested them. What do you do when you think you’re an American, but suddenly find out you are actually America’s enemy? – http://goo.gl/93GLCk
“The Best of the Best,” my favorite, curated Weekend Read articles below:
*SUPERMODEL SNOWPOCALYPSE – The Drug-Fueled, Multi-Million Dollar Supermodel Snowpocalypse. A fun Elle article that could/will-be-a-movie-in-itself – goo.gl/Iga0Jd
*THE GREAT DENVER AIRPORT MYSTERY – Did members of the “New World Order” build Denver’s airport and fill it with post-apocalyptic symbols and images? goo.gl/DxBeoH
*BAD GRANDPA HIKES KIDS ALMOST TO DEATH AT GRAND CANYON. I have rafted the Grand Canyon in the middle of the summer. It is absolutely, definitely not a place you want to try to conquer without the right supplies. But what I like about this Indianapolis Monthly article is not just the jovial tone, but the lack of black-and-white. Both points of view are represented very well… goo.gl/Q0mwyR
*Boom! Inside a British Bank-Bombing Spree by Nick Summers – goo.gl/XVRsPN
No American ATM has ever been robbed with explosive gas. The same WAS true in Britian – Until 2013. Now there have been more than 90.
*The Deputy Who Disappeared by Claire Martin for LA Magazine – goo.gl/PmBhvu
This is a truly fascinating story about an LA County Sheriff’s Deputy who disappeared off the face of the earth while long-distance running in the Antelope Valley. What starts out as a possible lost-and-perished-in-the-woods tale starts to become something much different as the article proceeds.
*None Dare Call It a Conspiracy by Scott Anderson for GQ – goo.gl/BJ60fG
False flag terrorism, in which one entity conducts a terrorist attack but makes it seem like another is responsible, in order to provoke a counterattack, is age-old. But is still still practiced today? This article is very controversial, as it’s about Russia, and Putin, and the apartment bombings that marked the beginning of Putin’s reign… And you won’t be able to stop reading.