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Inside the Capture of Karadzic

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07.22.08 posted by pondy 7 views no comments image
Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader under indictment for war crimes, spent years disguised behind a flowing white beard and long hair, living and working in Belgrade as a practitioner of alternative medicine, and "freely walking in the city," the Serbian authorities said Tuesday. Wanting to join the EU, efforts of late were stepped up to find and capture the former strongman.
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06.17.08 posted by jason 148 views no comments image
Another large plate of ice has broken off the rapidly disintegrating Wilkins Ice Shelf in the Antarctic Peninsula, the above satellite images show. While the ice shelf, located directly below South America, shrank significantly in previous months (see March images), this is the first documented occurrence of an ice shelf collapsing during the Southern Hemisphere's winter.
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Mugabe Tells African Neighbors Not to Provoke His Gov't

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07.04.08 posted by runner 44 views no comments image
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe made clear he is ready to fight his neighboring countries if they try to remove him from power or try to amend the government of his nation. "We don't intend to fight any neighbors. We are a peaceful country, but if there is a country, a neighboring country that is itching for a fight, ah, then let them try it."
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Iran Opens the Door for Diplomatic Talks with the US

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07.02.08 posted by runner 50 views no comments image
"Contacts between Iranians and the American people will be a useful step for better understanding of the two nations," Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency. This seems like a sign of potential progress between Iran and the US. If the two nations could engage one another and talk, it opens the possibility of avoiding war.
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Bush: Olympic boycott would insult Chinese

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07.07.08 posted by jason 31 views no comments image
President Bush on Sunday defended his decision to attend next month's Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing, saying that to boycott "would be an affront to the Chinese people." Other world leaders are avoiding the ceremony as a protest against China's recent actions in Tibet and its general poor record on human rights.
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NY Times Thomas Friedman Calls For Green Revolution

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07.06.08 posted by jason 34 views no comments image
At the Aspen Ideas Festival,Thomas Friedman gave a preview of his new book, "Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America," which comes out in September. The book's main argument is that the convergence of global warming, global flattening, and global crowding is driving five key trends that will define the 21st century.
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Google Earth Captures Secret North Korea Underground Runway Built for War

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04.26.08 posted by jason 835 views no comments image
North Korean military engineers are completing an underground runway beneath a mountain that can protect fighter aircraft from attack until they take off at high speed through the mouth of a tunnel. The project was identified by an air force defector from North Korea and captured on a satellite image by Google Earth.
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How the War Against Islamic Extremism Is Being Lost

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06.21.08 posted by pondy 109 views 1 comment image
Max Hastings of the UK Times reports, "The stakes are huge. If either state fails (Afghanistan, Pakistan), as is highly plausible, global stability will be rocked. A group of ignorant, immensely powerful and thus dangerous men in Washington, of whom Donald Rumsfeld, the defense secretary, was probably the worst, sought to exploit America's shock after 9/11 to pursue their own global agenda.
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All Ice Set to Vanish at North Pole This Summer

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06.27.08 posted by jason 69 views 1 comment image
It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year. The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one of the most dramatic - and worrying - examples of the impact of global warming on the planet.
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Bush wants satellites for domestic spying

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06.29.08 posted by jason 58 views no comments image
Newsweek's Michael Isikoff told MSNBC, "The Homeland Security Department is talking about expanding the program to use military satellites really, for domestic purposes. They say the primary driver is natural disasters...But they also leave open the possibility that this could be used for other purposes...Tracking potential terrorists but also tracking potential drug operations."
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Tutu Calls Mugabe a 'Frankenstein' for his People

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06.25.08 posted by pondy 79 views no comments image
Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu labeled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe "Frankenstein" and called for other countries to intervene before the country descended into bloodshed. International military action against Mugabe's regime, however, is unlikely, said Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith.
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