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The history of Naples is long and tortured, or at least for centuries that was how its history has been told. Inhabited almost continuously from the Neolithic era to the present, Naples was founded by the Greeks and conquered by the Romans. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Naples passed between various foreign rulers for its entire history prior to Italian unification. Starting in 1040, when the Norman French invaders conquered Campania, Naples was ruled in a dizzying succession by Germans, then French, then Spanish, then Austrians, then Spanish, then French, and then Spanish.

Called "a triumphant piece of reporting", Snowblind recounts the exploits of former cocaine smuggler Zachary Swan, chronicling his elaborate scams and outstanding success in the early 1970s.

The gritty prison memoir of Michaella McCollum, one half of the infamous 'Peru Two', imprisoned in a Peruvian jail for attempting to smuggle 11kg of cocaine from Peru to Madrid in August 2013. She was just a regular girl, spending the summer working at a bar in Ibiza, until she was approached by a man who asked her if she'd like to make some quick, easy money...and it would change her life forever. This is the truth of her time in prison, told through her own diaries and letters to her mother, family and friends.

After his retirement from the Marine Corps in the early 1930s, General Smedley D. Butler embarked on a national lecture tour, where he gave his speech about how commercial interests benefit from war. The speech was well received and he wrote an expanded version of it, which was published as War Is A Racket. The work was published by Reader's Digest as a condensed book supplement, which added to its popularity.

One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy. Shortly before her disappearance, Elisa had met Danilo Restivo, a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting women's hair on the back of buses. Elisa's family are convinced that Resitvo is responsible for their daughter's disappearance, but he is protected by local bigwigs: by his Sicilian father, by a doctor with links to organised crime, by a priest who had vices of his own. Years go by, and Elisa's family can find only false leads.

The war on drugs has been official American policy since the 1970s, with the UK, Europe and much of the world following suit. It is at best a failed policy, according to best-selling author Antony Loewenstein. Its direct results have included mass incarceration in the US, extreme violence in different parts of the world, the backing of dictatorships and surging drug addiction globally. And now the Trump administration is unleashing diplomatic and military forces against any softening of the conflict.

En dag under en turné rundt på forskellige bordeller i Danmark siger Louises krop og psyke pludselig stop. Hun beslutter at forlade sexbranchen, men det er ikke så lige til, og hun bliver nødt til at trappe ned, inden hun kan slippe den helt. Gennem sin mentor i exit-programmet New Hope bliver hun sendt videre til psykiater og får konstateret angst og posttraumatisk stress. Men langsomt, ved hjælp af samtalerne og kognitiv terapi, kommer hun i bedring. Ægteskabet er i krise, for pludselig er Louise hjemme hele tiden, og økonomien er stram. Men hun er stædig.

Louise bliver gift og stifter familie. Men det går ikke helt efter planen, og snart er hun enlig mor og prostitueret på fuld tid. Udover at være tilknyttet de københavnske massageklinikker får hun en fast kunde, en udviklingshæmmet mand, som hun besøger en gang om måneden i hans hjem. Louise anholdes, sigtes og dømmes for underslæb, da politiet mener, hun har franarret manden et stort pengebeløb, og hun afsoner tre måneder i Vestre Fængsel. Hjemme venter hendes nye mand og tre sønner.

Louise flytter hjem til sin mor og lillesøster i Kolding. Ved siden af jobbet som opvasker på et stort hotel tjener hun penge ved at sælge sex til de mandlige gæster. Da en tysk kvinde tilbyder hende at komme til Hamborg og indspille pornofilm, ser hun det som en oplagt mulighed for at slippe væk hjemmefra, og hendes karriere i sexbranchen er for alvor begyndt. Efter et halvt år i Tyskland vender Louise hjem og flytter tilbage til København, hvor hun tager arbejde på skiftende bordeller.

Louise vokser op på Nørrebro og lærer allerede fra barnsben at række hånden frem for at få penge af de mænd, der forgriber sig på hende. Hun oparbejder et stort forbrug af slik, som hun bruger til at dulme sine følelser med. En dag stikker hun en blyant i øjet på en skolekammerat, der mobber hende, og hun bliver sendt på opdragelseshjemmet Ville Heise i Nordsjælland. Her møder hun pædagogen Bjørn og får for første gang i sit liv en tryg base. Fire år senere sendes hun i plejefamilie i et lille lokalsamfund på Sydsjælland, hvor overgrebene begynder forfra.

Louise har taget imod penge for seksuelle ydelser, siden hun var en lille pige. Dengang forgreb voksne mænd i morens omgangskreds sig på hende. Senere valgte hun selv prostitutionsvejen. Eller gjorde hun? Louise opsøger et exit-program og får tilknyttet en mentor, der skal hjælpe hende videre i livet. Men hvem er hun, hvis hun ikke er luder? Og kan hun overhovedet andet end at sælge sex? Måske er der håb for fremtiden. Oplært til prostitution er en fortælling på fem afsnit.

The ‘Ndrangheta (pronounced an-drang-et-ah) is a close neighbor of the Cosa Nostra and currently considered the most powerful (and difficult to spell) criminal organization in Italy. The ‘Ndrangheta is centered around Calabria, the most southwestern region of Italy, almost touching the Sicilian city of Messina. Though it began as far back as the late 19th century, it was not until the 1950s that the ‘Ndrangheta started to spread its tentacles throughout Italy and then across the entire globe, forming an empire that now ranges from Australia and Turkey, to Chile to Canada.

Mitt under brinnande krig skickas en grupp finska soldater långt in bakom Röda armens linjer. Deras uppgift är att skära av järnvägstransporter till stridsplatserna. Sammanhållningen är stark men uppdraget livsfarligt och påfrestningarna enorma. Långt ifrån alla kommer att återvända hem. Trots de svåra förhållandena lyckas man spränga en järnvägsstation och uppehålla fienden. Men när vapenvilan väl utlyses befinner sig patrullen fortfarande i fält och utmaningarna fortsätter.

L'omicidio Sacchi e la Roma criminale: Più rapine e più aggressioni, la nuova Roma criminale incattivita dalla droga, di Fabio Tonacci; Roma, il nuovo esercito dei piccoli narcos, di Carlo Bonini; Il delitto di Roma, Roberti: "L'unica via per battere le mafie è la legalizzazione", di Liana Milella; Luca, Anastasiya e il mistero dei 20 mila euro, di Fabio Tonacci; Una trappola per Luca. Il compagno di liceo potrebbe averlo tradito, di Maria Elena Vincenzi.

Cosa sono le droghe? Da quando, perché e dove vengono prodotte e consumate? Chi gestisce il mercato della droga? Come sono diventati una leggenda i grandi capi narcos? Cos'è la cosiddetta narcocultura? Chi stabilisce il prezzo della merce? Che impatto ha il business della droga sull'economia mondiale? Quando e come politica e traffico di droga hanno iniziato a essere strettamente connessi? Qual è la situazione attuale e che futuro ci aspetta? Chi sono le vittime? Il traffico di droga è un fenomeno globale, diffuso ovunque nel mondo, che continua a generare vittime.

Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar’s brutal Medellín Cartel was responsible for trafficking tons of cocaine to North America and Europe in the 1980s and ’90s. The nation became a warzone as his sicarios mercilessly murdered thousands of people - competitors, police, and civilians - to ensure he remained Colombia’s reigning kingpin. With billions in personal income, Pablo Escobar bought off politicians and lawmen, and became a hero to poorer communities by building houses and sports centers.

In the decades they spent at the DEA, Javier Peña and Steve Murphy risked their lives hunting large and small drug traffickers. But their biggest challenge was the hunt for Pablo Escobar in Colombia. The partners, who began their careers as small-town cops, have been immortalised in Netflix's Narcos, a fictional account of their hunt for Escobar.

En una época de límites borrosos entre la verdad y la mentira, el caos y el orden, el horror y la indolencia, la delincuencia organizada y el Estado, aparece Aquí no es Miami, un libro de relatos híbridos, aleación entre periodismo y literatura, que aborda lúcidamente las condiciones que germinaron el terror de la llamada Guerra contra el Narcotráfico en un estado especialmente golpeado por esta debacle como lo es Veracruz.

Countless criminals have made their mark on Chicago and the surrounding communities. Chicago Sun-Times journalist Jon Seidel takes listeners back in time to the days when H. H. Holmes lurked in his "Murder Castle" and guys named Al Capone and John Dillinger ruled the underworld. Drawing upon years of reporting, and with special access to the Chicago Daily News and Chicago Sun-Times archives, Jon Seidel explains how men like Nathan Leopold, Richard Loeb, and Richard Speck tried to get away with history’s most disturbing crimes.

Javier Peña and Steve Murphy risked their lives hunting large and small drug traffickers in the decades they spent working for the US Drug Enforcement Administration. But their biggest challenge was the hunt for Pablo Escobar in Colombia. The partners, who began their careers as small-town cops, have been immortalized in Netflix’s Narcos, a fictionalized account of their hunt for Escobar. Now, for the first time, they tell the real story of how they brought down the world’s first narco-terrorist and ended the reign of terror of the world’s most wanted criminal.