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Updated 2/4/2016 RUN OF HIS LIFE 02.02.16 8:00 PM ET ‘The People vs. O.J. Simpson’ Premiere: Big, Bold, and Shockingly Relevant The white Bronco. The bloody glove. It’s 1994 all over again. Yet FX’s new series proves the Trial of the Century is just as enthralling—and maybe more important—than ever. “Oh my god. We’re…
Fukushima Chiefs: The Technology Needed To Decommission China-Syndromed Reactors Doesn’t Exist … Maybe In 200 Years? Updated 4/9/2015 Preface: As you read this post, please keep in mind: The reactors didn’t just suffer a melt down, or even a China syndrome type melt-through, but a series of melt OUTS. Scientists have no idea where…
Editor’s Note: Meir Javedanfar is an Iranian – Israeli Middle East analyst and the co-author of The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and The State of Iran. The following post was originally published in The Diplomat, a stellar international current-affairs magazine for the Asia-Pacific region. By Meir Javedanfar, The Diplomat The Iranian regime can live without its nuclear program….
In Peshawar, capital of Pakistan’s most conservative province, billboards showing women are regularly torn down and music shops have been repeatedly bombed. So how is it that under the noses of Islamist forces, adult movie houses continue to flourish? The half-lit room smells strongly of hashish. On the screen, a woman…
Iran recently unveiled what it described as ‘very big new achievements’ in nuclear science [Reuters] People & Power examines a dispute taking place against much sabre-rattling but in which the truth is hard to pin down. STORY HIGHLIGHTS International powers have agreed to resume nuclear talks with Tehran A top Iranian official says inspectors…
It is the revolution of fighting the patriarch. By Mona Eltahawy The Guardian There’s a thin line between sex and politics, and it is nonsense to keep repeating the mantra that Egypt’s revolution “wasn’t about gender”. What revolution worth its salt can be fuelled by demands of freedom and dignity and not have…
“I call it a sexual revolution: a Catalan boy meets a Flemish girl, they fall in love, get married — and they become European, just like their children.”
The man who broke the Bank of England George Soros. He’s the investor’s investor—the man who still holds the record for making more money in a single day’s trading than anyone. He pocketed $1 billion betting against the British pound on “Black Wednesday” in 1992, when sterling lost 20 percent of its value…
– A convoy of hearses left the cemetery in Thessaloniki, Greece and made its way to the government’s nearby regional headquarters. To the relief of the civil servants watching from the windows, the vehicles were empty – except for the drivers, who arrived en masse to protest a recent tax hike. Hearse costs…