Archive for the 'politics' Category

[rus] Журнал Аркадия Бабченко – Дедовщина перешла на контрактную основу | Dedovschina moved into professional base

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Article by Akrady Babchenko ( http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&tag=mozilla-20&index=blended&link_code=qs&field-keywords=babchenko ) about how Dedovschina (folk system of seniority based on stage of service, hazing tradition of the russia…

How We Lost the War We Won: Rolling Stone’s 2008 Journey Into Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan | Rolling Stone Politics

Friday, March 4th, 2011

a story from 2008, when one [arab] journalist ventured into Taliban-controlled area of Afghanistan and wrote a piece about his hosts and overall situation in Afghanistan.

Tanks, But No Tanks – By Maj. Michael Waltz | Foreign Policy

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Article about current armored vehicle usage policy in Afghanistan

Asia Times Online :: NORTHERN LIGHTS, A shadowy new battlefield

Monday, January 24th, 2011

article about political situation in Northern Afghanistan, information about Taliban, fragments from an interview with a taliban commander

The Dubai Job: Big Issues: GQ

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

story about how mossad conducted an assassination of hamas leader in Dubai

Another WikiLeaks address | SaveWikileaks.net

Saturday, December 4th, 2010

lists of mirrors for wikileaks

Cable Viewer — wikileaks document describing a wedding in Dagestan

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

an entertaining read

What’s Wrong With the American University System – Culture – The Atlantic

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

Interesting interview with Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, the authors of “Higher Education”

Errata Security: Cyberwar is fiction

Monday, June 7th, 2010

“The conflicts between nation states in cyberspace are nothing like warfare, and the tools hackers use are nothing like weapons. However, this fiction is what is driving national policy, and that worries me a lot. I feel this cluelessness is a bigger d…

The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » Eleventh Circuit Decision Largely Eliminates Fourth Amendment Protection in E-Mail 

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

excellent article that covers recent 11th-circut decision about privacy protection of email communications and possible implications.