I am working on it! I have a post up today at ForeignPolicy looking at some of the issues relating to Burma’s nuclear program. I promised to host a discussion here of the role of some of the equipment described here might play in in rare earths extraction. I am behind a bit — but I’ll …
Fact-Checking From Low-Earth Orbit
by | 2012-11-12 | 17 Comments
Fact-checking political rhetoric has lately become something of a cottage industry in America. Getting into that line of work seems to require a cutesy visual rating system involving wooden noses, flaming trousers, or some such. But with such a sweet target of opportunity, who can resist? After all, this may be the first time that …
Greetings from Vienna
by | 2012-11-12 | 1 Comment
I would post one of my own pictures of the view from our office in Vienna, the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Nonproliferation — but its very cloudy. Here is a picture of the building, the Torre Andromeda, that someone took in the winter. (It’s not that cold right now.) We have a pretty interesting POSSE meeting, …
Now What?
by | 2012-11-11 | 7 Comments
Democrats were obliged to expand their base after the 1972 McGovern campaign. The Republican Party now finds itself in the same boat. Who knew? It turns out that Fox Television and hard-right radio, long the bêtes noires of liberals, are more harmful to conservatives. Media personalities have sucked the air out of what was once …
