Radio Tahrir: a marathon retrospective on the Arab awakening, the Indignados and the Occupy movement.
Radio Tahrir (Part II): The Indignado and Occupy Movement
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When Nuclear Weapons Programs Fail to Ripen
Tyrannies and states with weak institutions are seldom successful developing nuclear weapons.
Radio Tahrir (Part I): Tariq Ali On the Arab Awakening
Radio Tahrir: a marathon retrospective on the Arab awakening, the Indignados and the Occupy movement.
Smaller than a Mouse
We demonstrated on a steaming day,
carrying signs.
Five hundred thousand people
in the streets of New York
saying no to war
Are Nuclear Weapons Really a “Big Sin” to Iran’s Supreme Leader?
Whether or not Ayatollah Khameini considers nuclear weapons haram shouldn’t be a determining factor in negotiations with Tehran.
Negative Nostalgia: Nuclear-Weapons Labs a Throwback to Cold War
Even the Department of Defense has had enough of the Department of Energy’s refusal to downsize its nuclear-weapons laboratories.
Drug-Law Reform Genie Freed From Bottle at Summit of the Americas
The legacy of the Cartagena summit, however, will likely be the beginning of a serious regional debate on international drug control policies.
Iran Errata: Israel “Tunes up” Iran for U.S.
Israel insists that Fordow, Iran’s nuclear-enrichment facility, remain vulnerable to attack.
U.S. Thinking on Afghanistan Is Not Just Magical, But Hallucinatory
The Taliban shut down preliminary talks with Washington, because, according to its spokesman, the Americans were “shaky, erratic and vague.”
Shaking Up the World Bank?
Lant Pritchett—a professor of the practice of international development at the Harvard Kennedy School—has been leading a campaign against the election of Jim Kim to the World Bank presidency. Although he isn’t the only critic of Kim’s nomination, he is among the most vocal and prominent. Many of his criticisms have been amplified and echoed by other leading development economists like William Easterly at New York University and several people associated with the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC.