Striker Abou Treika – a symbol of Egypt’s convoluted political transition
By James M. Dorsey.
Starred striker Mohamed Abou-Treika symbolizes the struggles in virtually every Egyptian institution between post-Mubarak reformers and supporters of the Mubarak-era status quo ante.
Breaking with the tradition of soccer [...]
Quantum Teleportation Over 143 Kilometers A New Record
By Alton Parrish.
An international research team including several scientists from the University of Waterloo and the University of Vienna has achieved quantum teleportation over a record-breaking distance of 143 kilometres through free space.
The [...]
Attacking Iran: Israel, the Lobby or Obama?
By Ronald Bleier.
Listeners to (and viewers of) the Democracy Now segment on the escalating talk in Israel of a military attack on Iran in mid August 2012, could hear the tremble in the voice of Israeli guest, Gideon Levy, the redoubtable Ha’aretz [...]
Power Vacuum and Struggle in Ethiopia after Prime Minister’s Death
By Betre Yacob
It has been 18 days since the death of the late Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi was announced by the Ethiopian Government on the state Television. But still now, no one in Ethiopia knows who the successor is. Even if the [...]
The need for nuclear sharing, or how Germany learnt to live with the bomb
By Oliver Kr
It is no secret that Germany actually has nuclear weapons, although it does not own them. There are in fact around 20 U.S. nuclear warheads permanently stationed at the German air force base in Büchel (in the middle of the [...]
Space-Warping White Dwarfs Produce Gravitational Waves
By Alton Parrish.
An international team, including the University of Texas, Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) has discovered that white dwarfs orbiting binary system J0651 [...]
If Dodd-Frank took so long … is US EITI in trouble?
By Amrit Naresh.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has finally voted on the implementation of oil and mining transparency rules in the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill, more than a year after the original deadline [...]
The European Union and its Integration
By Ida Horner.
The EU has almost reached the limits of its feasible territorial expansion – discussion.
Introduction
The European Union (EU) has evolved from six member states in 1951 who came together for commercial reasons, to nine members [...]
Turkey the European country that never made it?
The European Union and its unity have always been questioned. Something that has always amused
me was the exclusion of Turkey from the European Union when historically speaking they should have
been the first nation to join. They called [...]
Ohio State University and Racism
By Jaime Ortega.
Living in Columbus Ohio has helped me understand suspicions I had before of a general problem with racial intolerance.
I remember the nights back in 2005 during buckeye football season when I was speaking Spanish on the phone, [...]
Consenting Adults
By Jeremy Sare
Any day, another Royal story.
Britain’s view of the Royal family is mainly that they are a very popular anachronism of the past: good business for the tabloids and the tourism industry. The regular Jubilees, and less regular [...]
Ethiopia: The Funeral of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has Taken Place
By Betre Yacob.
The funeral ceremony of the Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, whose death had been a secret for several weeks and was announced on 20 August 2012 by Ethiopian state television, has taken place today (September 2) in Addis Abeba, [...]
Yes, we can? Not really – A review on foreign policy under the Obama Administration
By Oliver Krumme.
With Mitt Romney officially nominated as Republican Presidential candidate for the U.S. Presidential elections in November 2012, the election campaign has now officially begun. While Romney addressed the concept of strong leadership [...]