It’s well known that Bangladesh and Pakistan suffer from chronic power shortages. Those two countries simply do not produce enough electricity to meet the demand of their respective populations. Along with that quagmire, Bangladesh, particularly its capital, Dhaka, has been suffering a terrible water shortage. This is due, principally, because of the prior electricity shortage. […]
SIPRI’s report in March 2010 highlighted China’s growing desire to develop its Arctic capabilities. Yet China is also collaborating with other countries to possibly expand its role in the Arctic. Two of those countries are North Korea and Iceland, neither of which have Arctic coastlines, but which are far enough north to give China greater […]
Suppose the economy in which you go about your business is run by export revenue and remittances from migrant workers. Suppose further that one can reasonably suppose that remittance revenue will soon dip. In that circumstance, export revenue matters, doubly. Consider then the long run impact of the Icelandic volcano mess on the import and […]
As Russia replayed its glorious WWII past in Red Square, a darker history repeated itself just miles away. “The Russian Prime Minister has called for tougher safety measures after one of the country’s worst mine accidents in a generation” reads the lead paragraph of a BBC article entitled “Russia’s Mine Safety Woes. The article appears […]
The Israeli economy has defied all odds. A mere 60 years ago, most Israelis were farmers, living on kibbutzim and cultivating the land, transforming swamps and deserts become a world leader in science, with high-tech booming and Israeli companies taking the lead on military technologies. Similarly, Israeli drug maker Teva has become a generic pharmaceutical […]
In a fitting end to the much publicized trial of Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving terrorist of 26/11, a death sentence was awarded to him on five counts, including waging a war on India. Judge M L Tahiliyani sentenced him to five life terms and five death penalties for his display of “exceptional depravity” during […]
There’s quite a bit of information out there on Israel-related issues and its often hard to weed out the nonsense from the biased to the legitimate (and, many of this blog’s readers might label me in the former two categories). An assortment of news sites, ranging from the Jerusalem Post to Haaretz to Ma’an to […]
Today is Victory Day. I remember eating dinner at my grandparents’ austere Voronezh apartment as a kid with real silver silverwave, butter knives with hollow bulbous handles and faded ornate monograms featuring a giant, unslavic letter: W. It was ‘trophy’ silver my grandfather brought back from Berlin 65 years ago. A long time, but not […]
Below you will find a topographic map of Afghanistan and its neighbors. The dense colors of the map showcase the high elevation and dry climate of the country and contrast greatly with southeastern Pakistan. Check out the full size of this map and others at www.afghan-web.com.
The ramifications of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are now hitting home in the Arctic. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has ordered a temporary nationwide freeze on issuances of new permits for exploratory oil well drilling. The freeze will last until the White House has evaluated the Department of the Interior’s study on the […]
The Cable, a blog about the inner workings of the U.S. foreign policy machine run by Foreign Affairs magazine, has posted a sort of “who’s who” of America’s Arctic policymakers. There is no one person in charge of Arctic policy in the U.S. government, and instead, policymaking responsibilities are scattered throughout various departments. This confusion […]
A substantial piece of the politics and history–perhaps, shall I say, the political history –of Bangladesh has now been definitively relegated to the rumor-mongering heaps of badly fashioned narratives and outright lies that have for long run the public discussion of Bangladesh’s founding. It seems India had erased the records of the much of its […]
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