[This year, 2012, marks the 15th Anniversary of the publication of the English and Japanese print editions of the book Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet by Michael Hauben and…
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Beijing, which already has extensive holdings in Nigeria, is taking advantage of the lack of response from the U.S. to the strategic West African country’s need for military cooperation to expand its own oil and…
BEIRUT, Lebanon – The Syrian Free Army has announced that if the Russians intend to supply weapons to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, it will attack the Russian base at Tartous, which is…
Struggling US Internet pioneer Yahoo! says it will slash some 2000 jobs in a purge aimed at transforming into a “smaller, nimbler, more profitable” company. Yahoo! chief executive Scott Thompson, who took the helm in…
Review of “The End of War” by John Horgan The best book I’ve read in a very long time is a new one: “The End of War” by John Horgan. Its conclusions will…
January 14, 2012 “C4SS” — The US Department of Defense recently promulgated a new “defense” guidance document: “Sustaining US Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense.” I use scare quotes because it just doesn’t seem…
I wouldn’t want to be Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, the 28-year-old former US Marine just recently sentenced to death by a court in Iran after being convicted of being an American spy. Hekmati, who was born…
As the US and Iranian governments escalate tensions in the already volatile Straits of Hormuz, and China and Russia begin openly questioning Washington’s interference in their internal politics, the world remains on a knife-edge of…
The development of China’s “Online Blue Army” unit is for improving the defense capabilities of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), a Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday, citied by Beijing News. Launching the “Online…
It all began with a television report showing the hardships endured by students in an impoverished county in Guizhou Province, which moved 35-year-old Liang Shuxin so deeply that he decided to launch an online donation…