That’s the title of a disturbing new study conducted by a team of experts from the Peterson Institute for International Economics. It concludes that “the prospect of hunger-related deaths occurring in the next several months is approaching certainty.” Here is a summary: North Korea is on the brink of famine. The aggregate food picture appears …
Poor Sichuan
by | 2008-05-14 | 6 Comments
I spent a few days last summer in Sichuan Province — including Dujiangyan, close to the epicenter of the earthquake, and Mianyang, now the headquarters for the relief effort and also hit very hard. I still haven’t heard from any of my friends there, which is worrying me. The pictures from Sichuan are just heartbreaking. …
2008 NPT PrepCon Docs
by | 2008-05-13 | No Comments
The PrepCon ended on Friday, and the group Reaching Critical Will has posted a bunch of documents from it, including the Chair’s controversial Factual Summary of the conference proceedings and a really bizarre presentation to NGOs by the Iranian representative that reads like a tortured pop quiz on nuclear energy. According to Rebecca Johnson, co-founder …
Syria's Short Stack
by | 2008-05-13 | 26 Comments
ISIS have released an impressive and comprehensive report detailing the deception techniques used by the Syrians for the Box on the Euphrates (Andreas has already beaten me to blog it—you obviously haven’t got enough work to do, mate!). It answers a question that has been bugging me for a while: Where are the protrusions? North …
