An open, public hearing is being held by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission* in Washington on May 20, 2008. The topic of the hearing is “China's Proliferation Practices and the Development of its Cyber and Space Warfare Capabilities,” and seeks to collect and share information from academic, industry, and government expertise to identify […]
Just a quick one today folks. If you haven't checked it out yet, make sure to take a look at the post on May 11 ‘A Autocratic Dawn’, I think it raises an important issue that will and has affected CA and the world. EurasiaNet has written a scathing report chronicling the Tajikistan government's voluntary […]
Chaos in Alexandra continued to escalate through the weekend, though people are doing the best they can to live their lives as normal and many claim not to have noticed the violence that has largely been driven by xenophobia. Calm prevailed on Tuesday morning, but one wonders if the tenuous peace will hold. Stranded and fearful, […]
With the caveat that news from Zimbabwe these days is increasingly sketchy, it is clear that things there continue to fester. Agustino Zacarias, the United Nations senior representative in Zimbabwe, declared on Tuesday that the escalating violence is expanding countrywide, in rural and urban areas, and could reach crisis levels. Supporters of the Movement for Democratic Change […]
After exploring the recent death of Mexico's antinarcotics chief, I decided to explore where much of the funding for Mexican drug cartels comes from. The latest killing of Edgar Millan Gomez (see my previous blog post) has now been linked to a Sinaloan drug cartel (see: NY Times article) and occurred shortly after several of […]
There is some good news out of Lebanon, as the legitimate government has managed to regain control of the streets. But this editorial from The Daily Star seems to be asking too much. How the Arab League might at least put Lebanon on the right track I’m somewhat sceptical.
Just as I opine about a growing autocratic threat to the world liberal system I want to introduce a report by the Brookings Institution analyzing weak states, many of which consist of authoritative leadership. Of course yesterday's discussion centered on the Great Powers of China and Russia who do not fair prominently on this list, […]
With 2010 and the World Cup, and thus South Africa's global close-up, fast approaching, the country's tourist industry will become increasingly prominent. Moeketsi Mosola, chief executive of South African Tourism, is worried that crime is South Africa's Achilles’ heel and that all of the work going into preparations for 2010 will be for naught if […]
Now that the Movement for Democratic Change has declared that it will contest the runoff election Zimbabweans have reached the end of the beginning, not the beginning of the end of this seemingly interminable election issue. It appears that the MDC announcement has fueled increasing political violence that is likely to continue until the polling […]
Robert Kagan, a neoconservative policy analyst and one of presidential candidate John McCain's foreign policy advisors, has a new book warning that the West and its present leading liberal international system has a legitimate challenger in authoritarian Great Powers Russia and China and their alternative political system. Read a brief excerpt of 'the Return of […]
Anwar Wazen, Nick Noe and Mohsen Saleh about the latest events taken place in Beirut. Part I and II.
Nour's First Demo: The spirit of Pentecost on the fifth day of civil war Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous / 011.May.08 / 13:00 AM The besieged Lebanese government called yesterday for a demonstration of solidarity with the victims of the occupation of West Beirut for today, Sunday the 11th, the second highest Christian holiday, celebrating the gift of […]
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