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Guest Post by Alexander Achmatowicz (above) Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline Routes Transiting Balochistan[i] If either IPI (Iran-Pakistan-India or…
The Gwadar Port in Balochistan (one of Pakistan’s tribal regions) has been headline news in Pakistan, India and China this month. Interesting…
As strange as it may sound, switching to Open Source operating systems and software – and getting your boss, co-workers, friends and…
It occurs to me that I and other climate change activists may be entirely wrong in the way we approach organizing around…
TV-NZ has a new series this season, which I believe is bound for world fame, like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Flight…
I’m afraid I have some really bad news today. It appears, from satellite images, that the Ocean Conveyor Belt, aka the North…
Goodbye Information Super Highway I have just had my first introduction to the new paid Internet news service. It looks like we…
I have already done five blogs (see Aug 14 “Is Capitalism Doomed?”) regarding John Strachey’s 1932 classic The Coming Struggle for Power…
After the July Time magazine cover of the noseless Afghan woman was exposed as a fake (it turns out that the woman’s…
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