Journalist R. Jeffrey Smith has a piece in today's Washington Post which publicizes a letter released by Abdul Quadeer Khan, Pakistani proliferation raconteur, and imaginary nuke trader (the West made it up, you see) to former British Journalist Simon Henderson which ” support(s) his claim that he personally transferred more than $3 million in payments […]
The Big Apple should not have to wait any longer: It’s time to become a center of renewable energy. We’re not talking about big solar and wind arrays as we’re going to see in the Sahara – although that’s a good thing too – but rather about distributed generation: making power where you live and […]
I hope that you had a great Independence Day holiday weekend. I’ve been thinking about what kind of patriotic post I could write that would be interesting and different from the usual 4th of July posts I’ve made in year’s past. When I saw this report from Voice of America, I knew I’d found my […]
Study shows that AD syringes help stem infections from vaccination shots The Measles Initiative and the GAVI Alliance (formerly the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation) announced today that infections resulting from the re-use of syringes for immunizations have been reduced to practically zero in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a study released in the Supplement […]
I found this letter today. It comes from Words Without Borders. The author, Boualem Sansal, is an Algerian novelist, and Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia on December 17, 2010. The letter is beautiful, and worth a read. Dear Brother: I write these few lines to let you know we’re doing well, on […]
The challenges faced by Kenyan aid workers is the subject of a short piece by Sara Corbett in the recent The New York Times Magazine. The profile of Dorothy Gakii, a Kenyan who works with Refugepoint to distribute food for the swelling numbers of refugees from the Horn of Africa; particularly countries like Ethiopia, Sudan […]
The FPA Blogs Network has a new design. As you can see, there is a new look, a new layout, a new grouping of blogs by theme, a more user friendly comment system, a most popular posts widget, better sharing/social networking tools, and the design team in New York has been working on many behind-the-scenes […]
Today Americans gather to celebrate as a nation both our independence and freedom. We honor those who have fought and died to give us the ability to walk this land without fear of persecution. The United States is a nation built on the back of injustice one who fought to overcome religious persecutions, escape a dark slave past, one […]
Hearing news of suicide bombers no longer causes shock or dismay, as it has become an all too common mainstay of modern warfare. The use of suicide bombers has dramatically increased since its modern beginnings in the 1980’s, which saw an average of 4.7 attacks a year, to 180 attacks a year in the first […]
Two reports – one from CSIS, and another from RI – take up the contentious issue of the ALP. Regardless of delusions and hope, arming Afghanistan will only further hinder counter-terrorism efforts, stability, and humanitarian access.
On a scale of 1 to 5, UN agencies are rating the Horn of Africa at a 4, one step below “catastrophe/famine.” In a region where problems with security and governance are the typical concern, famine is now threatening over 9 million people. Inadequate rainfall, coupled with high global food prices, have put the people […]
After nearly seven years of negotiations, the Nuclear Suppliers Group, formed ironically in response to India’s diversion of civilian nuclear technology to nuclear weapons production, issued more stringent guidelines for transfer of enrichment and reprocessing (ENR) technologies. The new guidelines, approved during its June 23-24 meeting in the Netherlands, strengthens the conditions under which a […]
I woke today to media reports that 15 American soldiers had been killed this June marking the highest monthly fatality totals since June 2008, when there were a total of 23 fatalities. The tone of the reports was one of surprise and an underlying view that this was a new development and our efforts in […]
We’re on a slippery slope, which we first stepped onto in April 1986 when President Reagan ordered a fighter raid on Colonel Gaddafi’s Tripoli compound, in retaliation for a Libyan-inspired terrorist attack on a nightclub in Berlin. Though Gaddafi survived, one of his children died– which rather stuck in the craw, even as one cheered […]
From time to time, the Global Food Security Blog will call upon experts with an informed viewpoint on topics in global food security to contribute guest posts to our blog. The first of our guest bloggers is Dr. Augustine Uzo Mokwunye, a development strategy consultant with expertise in natural resources management, capacity development, and application […]