Blazed and confused: Turkey’s raging fires

The Economist Podcasts

• Episode: Blazed and confused: Turkey’s raging fires
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• Duration: 00:20:23
• Published: 2021-08-11 11:54

Across the Mediterranean and beyond, flames are consuming the landscape. Our correspondent says Turkey’s government helped make the country a tinderbox and was caught flat-footed by the blaze. State secrets, business intelligence, even conservation data: it’s all online, and freely available. We examine the pros and cons in an era of open-source intelligence. And the “murder hornet” threatening America’s north-west.

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