Posted in My Thoughts on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Developing countries must boost broadband: U.N.
By Jonathan Lynn
GENEVA (Reuters) – Developing countries risk missing out on the benefits of information technology because of their lack of broadband infrastructure, a U.N. agency said.
Lack of broadband Internet access deprives countries of the possibility of building up offshoring industries, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By Robert Farley, Right Web. Posted October 22, 2009.
A diverse array of rightwing factions have united behind the effort to promote the EMP threat thesis.
Last month, Christian conservatives’ favorite presidential hopeful, Mike Huckabee, headlined a national conference in Niagara, New York, titled “Protecting America Against Permanent Continental Shutdown From Electromagnetic Pulse.”
Sponsored by EMPACT America, an [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad believes Iran must ‘export’ the Iranian revolution (Photo: AP)
Those who dismiss the threat of a nuclear Iran fail to appreciate the true nature of that country’s regime. Consider, if you will, the suicide bomb which yesterday killed 42 people in Sistani-Baluchistan (a region of Iran which borders Afghanistan and Pakistan). General Noor Ali [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An electromagnetic "black hole" that sucks in surrounding light has been built for the first time.
The device, which works at microwave frequencies, may soon be extended to trap visible light, leading to an entirely new way of harvesting solar energy to generate electricity.
A theoretical design for a table-top black hole to trap light was proposed [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Establishing the Right Precedent in Supplying Fuel to Iran
George Perkovich, Pierre Goldschmidt Proliferation Analysis, October 7, 2009
Note: The initial posting of this analysis, on October 6, contained an error which is corrected here. UN Security Council resolutions 1737, 1747, and 1803 do allow Iran to import fuel for light water reactors, including [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The risk of cyber-terrorism escalating to a nuclear strike is growing daily, according to a study
Photograph: U.S. Department of Energy-Nevada/Corbis
Terrorists groups could soon use the internet to help set off a devastating nuclear attack, according to new research.
The claims come in a study commissioned by the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND), which [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Response to Jon Kyl and Richard Perle
James Acton, Pierre Goldschmidt, George Perkovich Proliferation Analysis, July 7, 2009 Published: July 07, 2009
President Obama’s speech on April 5, 2009, in Prague, in which he pledged “America’s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons,” was the most important statement of nuclear [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Based on a painting by Khosro Roshan
Bani Ajam
September 1997The Iranian
Bani aadam a’zaay-e yekdigarnd.Human beings are parts of one body.- Sa’di, 13th century Iranian poet
Arab dar biyaabaan malakh meekhorad, sag-e esfahaan aab-e yakh mikhorad .In the desert, the Arab eats locusts; the [Iranian] dog from Isfahan drinks cold water. – Persian proverb
From “The Image of [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Are Iranians Anti-Arab?30/03/2007
Amir Taheri
was born in Iran and educated in Tehran, London and Paris. Between 1980 and 1984 he was Middle East editor for the London Sunday Times. Taheri has been a contributor to the International Herald Tribune since 1980. He has also written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The [...]
Posted in My Thoughts on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The two-state solution is the only way to guarantee the Jewish state’s long-term security—and our own.
By John J. Mearsheimer
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The United States and Israel fundamentally disagree about the need to establish a Palestinian state living side by side with Israel. President Obama is committed to [...]
