The powerful computer virus called the Stuxnet worm has captured the world’s attention, in part because of its sophistication, and because of speculation about what the malicious software might have targeted. “Stuxnet is really a computer worm on steroids,” says Robert McMillan, a computer security specialist and senior writer for the IDG News Service. “We…
Will President Obama go down in history for having set a new course on foreign policy, or for having shown unexpected continuity with his predecessor? As one of his first acts after taking office, President Barack Obama signed an executive order to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay within one year. “This is me,”…
UNDER THE VEIL BY ROYA HAKAKIAN Before the UN, EU, or White House draft a new proposal on Iran, they should master the details of the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the 43-year-old woman on death/stoning row. What makes Sakineh’s case worth the policymakers’ time is more than the usual human rights argument against befriending…
U.S. and many other nations at the U.N. General Assembly walk out in protest at Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s conspiracy theories over September 11 attacks
Cuba’s leader Fidel Castro delivers a speech to students outside Havana’s University in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. Castro dusted off his military fatigues for the first time since stepping down as president four years ago, a symbolic act in a Communist country where little signals often carry enormous significance.(AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
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In this photo, the reactor building of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant is seen, just outside the port city of Bushehr, 750 miles south of the capital, Tehran, in this Nov. 30, 2009, file photo. Russia’s nuclear agency spokesman, Sergei Novikov, said Friday fuel will be loaded into Iran’s first nuclear power plant next week,…
No war likely on Lebanon-Israel border – for now Photo released by Hizbollah’s press office on Thursday shows the Shiite Party Secretary General Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah (3rd right) meeting in Beirut with Ali Akbar Velayati, adviser for international issues to Iran’s Supreme Religious Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (AFP photo) By Rana Moussaoui Agence France-Presse…
Neocons Hoping Israel Will Start a Fire the U.S. Will Be Forced to Put Out Justifying an Israeli bombing attack on Iran coincides with the opening of the new Israel lobby campaign marked by the introduction of House resolution 1553 expressing full support for such an Israeli attack. What is important to understand about this…