Politics

http://starshinazapasa.livejournal.com/223533.html#cutid1 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 russian army ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedovschina ) evolved and changed after recent reforms in the russian army

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-we-lost-the-war-we-won-rolling-stones-2008-journey-into-taliban-controlled-afghanistan-20110131 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.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/11/24/tanks_but_no_tanks?page=full Article about current armored vehicle usage policy in Afghanistan

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/MA20Df02.html article about political situation in Northern Afghanistan, information about Taliban, fragments from an interview with a taliban commander

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201101/the-dubai-job-mossad-assassination-hamas?printable=true story about how mossad conducted an assassination of hamas leader in Dubai

http://savewikileaks.net/another-wikileaks-address/ lists of mirrors for wikileaks

http://cablegate.wikileaks.ch/cable/2006/08/06MOSCOW9533.html an entertaining read

http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/07/whats-wrong-with-the-american-university-system/60458/ Interesting interview with Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, the authors of “Higher Education”

http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2010/06/cyberwar-is-fiction.html “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 danger to cyberspace than foreign hackers.” , by Robert Graham

http://volokh.com/2010/03/15/eleventh-circuit-decision-largely-eliminates-fourth-amendment-protection-in-e-mail/ excellent article that covers recent 11th-circut decision about privacy protection of email communications and possible implications.