1973. The Soviet Ambassador calls the National Security Advisor. What major crisis dominates their conversation? Just read it. Read this one, too. Now, Dmitry.
Open Skies
by | 2004-06-07 | No Comments
The Russian Federation and Republic of Belarus will conduct their first Open Skies Treaty observation mission over the territory of the United States this week (The Russians have conducted some other missions prior to entry-into-force). The treaty, which entered into force on 1 January 2002, permits a state party “to conduct short-notice, unarmed, reconnaissance flights” …
Abu Ghraib, ICC and the incompetent American media
by | 2004-06-05 | No Comments
A colleague sent me a Reuters story that so mangles a UNHCR report on the human rights situation in Iraq that I don/’t know whether to laugh or cry. The gist of the Reuters story is: While crediting the United States for ending the “shocking and systematic” human rights abuses that occurred under Saddam Hussein, …
Canadian Space Surveillance
by | 2004-06-03 | No Comments
The National Post reports that the Canadian Department of National Defence is conducting a $65-million program, Project sapphire, to join the United States Space Surveillance Network. Canada will launch “a satellite with an optical sensor to look at objects in deep space — approximately 6,000 kilometres to 40,000 kilometres from Earth,” according the director of …
