Country Intelligence and Analysis
Anonymous reflects on a “frantic and historic” year By Natasha Lennard (Credit: Reuters/Fredy Builes) Perhaps no tech story was bigger this year than the growth of the crusading hacker collective Anonymous. In a Best of 2012 package, Andrew…
Philosopher David Edmonds discusses the five books that have had the greatest influence on his work By Alec Ash, Applied ethics should interest all but the most philosophy shy, as it poses moral questions of everyday use. Applied ethics is the application of moral theory to the real world. I first read…
Reza Kahlili Reza Kahlili served in CIA Directorate of Operations, as a spy in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, counterterrorism expert; currently serves on the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, an advisory board authorized by Congress. He is the author of the award winning book “A Time to Betray” and regularly appears in…
Orwa Nyrabia is looking for an apartment in Cairo for a few months, just enough time to wrap his latest movie a month after being released from a Syrian jail. Nyrabia was arrested on August 23 in Damascus and held for 22 days. This 35-year-old filmmaker and creator of the renowned Dox Box film festival…
Tolerated asylum seekers troubled in Germany photo: AP / Fabian Bimmer Hussain has spent seven years learning German. He speaks it quickly and confidently when among his friends at social gatherings in the busy Kreuzberg district of Berlin. He considers Germany home.But the authorities don’t want him here. Since fleeing from Pakistan to Germany…
October 2nd, 2012 Why Syria turmoil threatens Middle East By Fareed Zakaria As Syria continues its descent into civil war, the terrible humanitarian tragedy occurring is unfolding in plain view: 20,000 dead, 250,000 refugees outside the country by some accounts, over a million people internally displaced. There seems no easy solution to end the crisis….
HOW MANY CIVILIANS WOULD BE KILLED IN ATTACK ON IRAN NUCLEAR SITES…. BEHROUZ MEHRI Iranian twin sisters sit in front of worshippers performing ‘Id al-Fitr prayers to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan in the Olympic Village neighborhood of western Tehran on Aug. 19, 2012 For Iranians…
Arrest of 16 Brazilians in the Bahamas shows new illegal route to the U.S. 14/09/2012 – The arrest of 16 Brazilians on a boat in the Bahamas territory on Monday, reinforced the suspicion that there is a new route for illegal immigrants to reach the U.S., thorough the Caribbean. The group was comprised…
‘Innocence Of Muslims’ Shot On Hollywood Set, Film Permit Connected To Christian Charity The Huffington Post -Staff Bangladeshi Muslims burn a U.S. flag during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. The protest was held against an obscure movie made in the United States called “Innocence of Muslims” that mocked Islam’s Prophet Muhammad….