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- Myanmar’s Fuel Woes
In June, I posted on Iran’s censorship of the press after its outraged citizens tourched gas stations after unannounced fuel rationing and price hikes. Iran is a major oil exporter, but has no does not have enough refineries and must import its gasoline.
Iran isn’t the only authoritarian regime with these issues— Myanmar just imposed [...]
- The Arctic Cold War: The Canadian Perspective
My post on Russia’s Arctic claim last month is now hot news as Russia plants a flag on the arctic seabed, Denmark and Norway jostle for claims, and the US brushes off Russia’s claims. What about Canada? The Star has an article on the Arctic “Cold War” and what Canada (and the US) [...]
- How the other half lives
This article is one of many excellent articles written by journalist Rukmini Callimachi, whose articles over the last two years make her probably the best current journalist reporting on Africa.
Students scrounge for light at Guinea airport
CONAKRY, Guinea — The sun has set in one of the world’s poorest nations and as the floodlights come on [...]
- Another Canal?
Kazakhstan’s Nursultan Nazarbaev, recently made president for life, proposed a new canal linking the Caspian with the Black Sea. Currently, goods flow through the Volga-Don shipping canal, which links the Volga to the Don. It runs from near Astrakhan, Russia on the northwestern shore of the Caspian to Rostov on the Sea of Azov. Claiming [...]
- Protecting SE Asian SLOCs
Indonesia’s Minister of Defense has called for maritime security assistance from Japan, China and Korea. This is big news for two audiences: the World and Japan.
First, the Malacca Strait is an extremely important sea line of communication (SLOC, some semi-related background here) handling 40 percent of the world’s maritime trade. It is also one of [...]
- Yum! Latest del.icio.us links
I love del.icio.us. I use it quite a bit and it is a godsend for grad students doing thesis work. Here are the latest 10 links I have added to my del.icio.us account:
US DHS - Cyber Security R & D Center
FT.com Digital Business IT Glossary
Both of these were covered in this postIraq Coalition Casualties
Includes stats [...]
- Echoes of colonialism
Last month Moscow snatched coveted energy diversification from Europe’s poor, shivering hands by getting the Kazakh president to promise continued gas exportation through Russian infrastructure. PINR comes to a conclusion I think we can all agree with:
Russia was the big winner in the agreement: Putin demonstrated his ability to outmaneuver Europe, sending another signal of [...]
- The Bleak Future of Energy Consumption
According to the Economist, America’s Energy Information Administration released its annual International Energy Outlook and forecast that the world’s consumption of energy would increase by a whopping 57% between 2004 and 2030.
And the developed world’s days of taking heat for being such a big consumer of energy are on the way out—the carbon emissions of [...]
