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Today I Converted to “Islam”
I was “born a Muslim” so to speak. Some of you know my parents; they are “chill parents”. They encouraged me to read relentlessly. Also to argue with them annoyingly about everything the minute I could do so. Our discus...
WATCH: Drones For Trees
With the ongoing US drone campaigns in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan, it seems like many people have specifically labeled drones agents of wanton death and destruction. The more informed individual might label drones as tools of...
The Rise & Fall of a “Terrorist” Group: Jabhat al-Nusrah, Syria
Western media and thinkers, as crude as that categorisation seems, tend to oversimplify matters when dealing with “Jihadist” groups such as Al Qaeda. Like any “human institution”, however totalitarian it may seem, balan...
It Never Rains In Central Asia, But When It Does, It Pours
On May 30-31st torrential rainstorms caused chaos on Kazakhstan’s Almaty, Uzbekistan’s Tashkent and Kyrgyzstan’s Bishkek. While damage was mostly limited to floating cars and flooded houses, for Kyrgyzstan the...
WATCH: The Worst Case Scenario & Tips For Prevention For Viral Pandemics
Bird Flu, Swine Flu, SARS: ever wondered how they work, what dangers they face, or what can be done to prevent them? This short, funny and stylish film by public information group TakePart outlines the worst-case scenario for a...
National Security’s Cameo
Having been cast to the wayside in a way that it hadn’t been during the previous two presidential elections, eleven years after the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001, the topics of National Security and Terrorism have ...
