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Scary Iran and Paul's Austrian fetish: Iowa speech highlights

It was an unexpected late-night nail-biter in Iowa last night, as Mitt Romney barely edged out Rick Santorum. Santorum kept things pretty domestic in what was essentially an introduction speech to a national audience that hasn't heard much from him...

Published Wed, Jan 04 2012 8:03 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum

6 mysteries about Stuxnet

By now, you've probably heard of Stuxnet, the mysterious computer worm that infects Windows computers running software designed by Siemens, the German industrial giant. The software, Simatic WinCC, is what's known as a SCADA system -- "supervisory...

Published Mon, Sep 27 2010 3:50 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Science & Technology, Nukes, Iran

Will the end of the freeze reconcile Hamas and Fatah?

Khaled Meshaal, the Damascus-based leader of Hamas, said today that the best response to the end of Israel's 10-month "settlement freeze" would be a reconciliation with rival Palestinian faction Hamas. DPA reports : Meshaal argued that internal...

Published Mon, Sep 27 2010 2:37 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Middle East, Israel/Palestine

Leaks from Wikileaks

Wired' s Threat Level reports on what seems to be an employee revolt at whistleblower site Wikileaks. The conflict started after founder Julian Assange agreed to let media outlets embargoed access the group's upcoming tranche of leaked Iraq war...

Published Tue, Sep 28 2010 3:22 PM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Pakistani military pushing for civilian government shakeup

Pakistani military pushing for civilian government shakeup Top story : To officers in Pakistan's military, the country's most powerful institution, are increasingly disillusioned with the government of President Asif Ali Zardari. Gen. Ashfaq Kayani...

Published Wed, Sep 29 2010 5:31 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Morning Brief: Pakistan cuts off NATO supply route

Pakistan cuts off NATO supply route Top news: Pakistan has closed a crucial border crossing for resupplying U.S. troops in Afghanistan in apparent retaliation for a U.S. helicopter attack that killed three members of Pakistan's security forces. Supply...

Published Thu, Sep 30 2010 5:45 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

U.S. apologizes for Guatemala STD experiment

This is extremely disturbing : U.S. government medical researchers intentionally infected hundreds of people in Guatemala, including institutionalized mental patients, with gonorrhea and syphilis without their knowledge or permission more than 60 years...

Published Fri, Oct 01 2010 9:05 AM by FP Passport

Friday photo: Another brick in the wall

BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 20: People walk past a section of the former Berlin Wall called the East Side Gallery on September 20, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. Germany will mark 20 years since the reunification of East and West Germany on October 3 following the collapse...

Published Fri, Oct 01 2010 3:09 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Friday Photo

The politeness of David Cameron

In a wide-ranging and somewhat unusual interview with David Cameron in this weekend's Financial Times , Columbia University historian Simon Schama gets the British prime minister to open up a little bit about the American right: Later, I would ask...

Published Mon, Oct 04 2010 4:31 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Britain

File-sharing recognized as religion in Sweden

I've written a couple things on this blog over the years about the Pirate Party, the global political movement founded by Swedish software entrepreneur and 2011 global thinker Rick Falkvinge , which aims to legalize file-sharing and do away with current...

Published Thu, Jan 05 2012 11:37 AM by FP Passport

Fidel comes out against fracking

Defying rumors of his death , Blogger Fidel is back with a new column , weighing in on, of all things, the debate over hydrofracking , calling it a "march into the abyss" : "It is sufficient to point out that among the numerous chemical...

Published Fri, Jan 06 2012 8:58 AM by FP Passport

Switzerland's long Libyan nightmare is finally over

The multiyear diplomatic feud between Switzerland and Libya originally set off by enfant terrible Hannibal Qaddafi's 2008 hotel room assault on two of his servants has finally come to an end : The new Libyan government made the decision on Sunday...

Published Mon, Jan 09 2012 3:01 PM by FP Passport

Failure to Launch?

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 When space programs have some sort of setback, it's usually tied to an arithmetic error , or because of the sheer complexity of launching something into outer space. For Russian...

Published Tue, Jan 10 2012 11:51 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Eastern Europe

Morning Brief: Arab League mission mandate expires in Syria

Arab League mission mandate expires in Syria Top news: The mandate of the one-month Arab League observer mission in Syria expired yesterday with members of the team largely confined to their hotels. Critics have charged that the mission has been ineffective...

Published Fri, Jan 20 2012 5:35 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

The Election 2012 Weekly Report: And then there were four

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Perry and Huntsman bow out The Republican field continued to narrow this week with two once-promising candidates dropping out before this Saturday's pivotal South Carolina primary. Jon Huntsman , the...

Published Fri, Jan 20 2012 11:28 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, 2012 Report

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Scary Iran and Paul's Austrian fetish: Iowa speech highlights

6 mysteries about Stuxnet

Will the end of the freeze reconcile Hamas and Fatah?

Leaks from Wikileaks

Morning Brief: Pakistani military pushing for civilian government shakeup

Morning Brief: Pakistan cuts off NATO supply route

U.S. apologizes for Guatemala STD experiment

Friday photo: Another brick in the wall

The politeness of David Cameron

File-sharing recognized as religion in Sweden

Fidel comes out against fracking

Switzerland's long Libyan nightmare is finally over

Failure to Launch?

Morning Brief: Arab League mission mandate expires in Syria

The Election 2012 Weekly Report: And then there were four