Patrick Meier: Crisis Mapping Climate Change, Conflict, Aid in Africa

Crisis Mapping Climate Change, Conflict and Aid in Africa I recently gave a guest lecture at the University of Texas, Austin, and finally had the opportunity to catch up with my colleague Josh Busby who has been working on a promising crisis mapping project as part of the university’s Climate Change and African Political Stability Program (CCAPS). Josh and …

Chuck Spinney: Is Israel on Cusp of Grand Strategic Set-Back as Universities Mobilize (Precedent South Africa)?

Grand strategy (described here) can be generalized as a game of interaction and isolation. Viewed from this perspective, Israel’s grand strategy has been to maintain or increase its freedom of action in implementing the expansive Zionist apartheid/colonialist agenda, to include gaining control of the region’s scarce water resources (see here), by — (a) preying on the collective …

Theophillis Goodyear: Internet, Undersea Cables, Africa, and Digital Remittances

Internet access has become a vital public interest. Cutting it off is almost like cutting off our air.  I can’t imagine mankind transcending all of the challenges we’re facing without the internet. It’s gone beyond being a luxury to being an absolute necessity for positive social transformation. Epic net outage in Africa as FOUR undersea …

Search: size of united states versus africa

USE THE DIRECTORIES!  They exist for Articles & Chapters, Briefings & Lectures, Graphics, RECAPS, and Searches.  Use the middle column of Categories.  For example, under Graphics, you immediately can identify Africa (9). Graphic: How Big is Africa?  

Berto Jongman: Terror Threat Northern Africa

Special Update Report: Terrorism in North, West, & central Africa – From 9/11 to the Arab Spring Professor Yonah Alexander, Director, International Center for Terrorism Studies, and Senior Fellow, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies 55 Page PDF

Cynthia McKinney: US & Israel Against Africa & Arabia

Cynthia McKinney, 10 October 2011. Third of Four Installments on Libya: Israel and Libya Once again, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya peels away the veneer of legitimacy and deception enveloping the U.S./NATO genocide currently taking place in Libya. In his first article, Nazemroaya exposed the mechanism by which the world came to “know” of the need for …