Nuclear technology will continue to play an integral role in securing energy and promoting socioeconomic development, delegates said Monday as the United Nations General Assembly discussed the 2011 report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and adopted a resolution reaffirming “strong support” for its indispensable role. Annu Tandon, Member of Parliament of India, was [...]
Nuclear Technology To Continue To Play Integral Role In Securing Energy And Promoting Socioeconomic Development – UN
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Two Global Superpowers One Global Challenge – Analysis
While the world’s attention is focussed on the leadership contest in the United States, the leadership change that will unfold in China just days after the US presidential elections has received comparatively less attention. The biggest political event in a decade for the world’s second superpower is scheduled to take place at the Great Hall [...]
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Australia In The Asian Century: How Much New Thinking? – Analysis
A new White Paper released by the Australian Government sets an agenda for Australia’s future relations with Asia. It includes a chapter on regional security issues that mainly echoes conventional thinking. By Sam Bateman THE AUSTRALIAN Government recently released its White Paper Australia in the Asian Century. This is a wide-ranging document that sets an [...]
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Syrian National Council Removal: US Coup D’état In Syrian Opposition – OpEd
By Mohyeddin Sajedi After 20 months from the outset of the Syrian crisis, the US eventually decided to dismiss the main opposition leader and replace him with its own selected council. The reactions by some of the leaders of the so-called Syrian National Council (SNC) indicate that they have not been aware of the decision [...]
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We the People, And The New American Civil War – OpEd
The vitriol is worse is worse than I ever recall. Worse than the Palin-induced smarmy 2008. Worse than the swift-boat lies of 2004. Worse, even, than the anything-goes craziness of 2000 and its ensuing bitterness. It’s almost a civil war. I know families in which close relatives are no longer speaking. A dating service says [...]
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Arafat Body To Be Exhumed Nov 26
The body of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is set to be exhumed on November 26, eight years after his death, as part of an investigation to see if he was murdered, a diplomat said on Monday, Nov 5, according to Reuters. Two senior Swiss forensic experts are already in the West Bank to [...]
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Rich Russian To Profit From Cyprus Bailout
(EurActiv) — Cyprus’s request for a bailout has created a political headache for German Chancellor Angela Merkel over concerns that wealthy Russians could be the chief beneficiaries, the weekly Der Spiegel reported, citing an intelligence agency report. Cyprus is in talks with international lenders on the terms of a bailout expected to total €10 billion [...]
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Ron Paul: Federal Flood Insurance, A Moral Hazard We Can’t Afford – OpEd
Hurricane Sandy was one of the worst natural disasters the east coast has ever seen. Clean-up and recovery will take months, if not years and estimates run in the tens of billions of dollars. Parts of New York and New Jersey will never be the same. Entire seashore communities have been wiped out, but the [...]
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Ralph Nader: Obama Is Making An Easy Race Too Close – OpEd
One day before Election Day 2012 and the incredible has come true. Obama is neck and neck with Romney when, even with his disappointing record, Obama should be landsliding Romney and his Party of Big Business. For all his billions plus campaign dollars, President Obama has missed out on repeatedly emphasizing the most obvious flaws [...]
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The Next US Administration’s Top Five Foreign Policy Challenges – OpEd
By Lt. General (USA, Ret.) Robert G. Gard Our next commander-in-chief will, as President Barack Obama joked during his final debate with Mitt Romney, spend little time fretting about the nation’s bayonet arsenal or herds of battle-ready horses. Instead, the White House will confront serious international challenges as it deals with Iran, Russia, Afghanistan, North [...]
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Comedian’s Political Humor Affects Potential Voter’s Attitudes About Candidates
Comedians publicly ridiculing a presidential candidate may cause audiences to have negative attitudes toward that individual, according to a study by Amy Bree Becker, Assistant Professor at Towson University. The study, set to be published in the November 2012 issue of Mass Communication and Society, found that attitudes about a candidate were affected by viewing [...]
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Better Climate Predictions For Europe
A European initiative for climate service observation and modelling, ECOMS, will exploit recent advances in our understanding and ability to forecast climate variability and change. Funded by the European Commission, the multi-million euro initiative will also work with stakeholders to identify opportunities to develop new and improved tools to extract useful and usable information tailored [...]
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Toward The ‘Future Internet’
(CORDIS) — You may not notice as you surf the web, but the internet is a clunky thing, built on a mixed bag of technologies, some of them decades old. Upgrading such a vast network is no easy task, though the same trial-and-error approach that led to the internet’s creation now promises to keep it [...]
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Kyrgyzstan: Distrust In Police Means Privatization Of Law And Order
By Chris Rickleton One morning last year in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Dilnoza awoke to find her brand-new Toyota Corolla missing. She knew immediately whom to call, and it wasn’t her local police precinct. Dilnoza sought the help of a private security agency. And after six days of searching, the firm’s operatives finally tracked down and recovered [...]
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Olympic Lessons From Barcelona That Might Help Brazil
Excellent management, public/private cooperation and exemplary implementation of the strategic plan: these were the pillars of success for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. Twenty years since Barcelona hosted the Games, IESE professors Carlos García Pont and Paulo Rocha e Oliveira have written a case study, in collaboration with David Campoy, on the “Barcelona Effect.” [...]
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Navy SEALs Claim Obama Poses Clear And Present Danger To US – OpEd
The Obama administration poses a clear and present danger to America, according to a former member of elite Naval commandos in a statement released Sunday. U.S. Navy SEALs have been telling anyone who’ll listen that President Barack Obama has been a weak leader throughout his term and cannot be trusted. Senior administration officials recklessly briefed [...]
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Poppy Populism – OpEd
By Dr. Abdul Wahid A year ago my son’s class teacher told the class that wearing a poppy in November was to remember all those who have died in war – soldiers and civilians. A brief look at the website of the Royal British Legion, who organize the annual poppy appeal, tells a different story. [...]
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Georgia PM Appoints Special Envoy For Relations With Russia
(Civil.Ge) — PM Bidzina Ivanishvili introduced on November 1 new post of Special Representative for Relations with Russia and appointed on the post Georgia’s former ambassador to Moscow Zurab Abashidze. Ivanishvili said that introduction of this post was Georgia’s “first step” aimed at demonstrating that Georgia’s new government had serious intentions to mend ties with [...]
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Brazil Embarks On Cloning Of Wild Animals
By Alice Marcondes Brazilian scientists are attempting to clone animals in danger of extinction, like the jaguar and maned wolf, although the potential impact on the conservation of these threatened species is still not clear. The cloning initiative is being undertaken by the Brasilia Zoological Garden in partnership with the Brazilian government’s agricultural research agency, [...]
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Clinton’s Effort To Build A Syrian Government In Exile Seems Doomed – OpEd
Already the Syrian opposition’s back biting and emulous factions seem determined to sink Washington’s latest effort. Hillary Clinton is having a last go a putting together a “secularish,” upper-class leadership for the Syrian rebel effort. A swansong? Washington’s Plan A, which was to create the SNC, went down in dust. By all accounts, Clinton cannot [...]
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