On September 9, 2014 I received the following email from the Director of Public Affairs Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR ) regarding an investigation into failed G222 aircraft acquisition program: Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Dear Mr. Tilford, Today, SIGAR released two letters related to the failed G222 aircraft program for the Afghan Air Force. In all, […]
The Scramble for Somalia
How the Sick Games are Played By Venatrix Fulmen Ethiopia Not Enthusiastic About Kenya’s Jubaland Initiative in Somalia – Nairobi – In a cable sent by and from the U.S.American embassy (YATES) in Addis Ababa concerning U.S. UNDER SECRETARY OTERO’S MEETING WITH ETHIOPIAN PRIME MINISTER MELES ZENAWI on JANUARY 31, 2010, it was reported that […]
Yahudi ki Ladki’ Agha hashr Kashmiri’s Popular Play
National school of drama (NSD), New Delhi and Indian People’s theater association (IPTA), Saharanpur’s one month(June-July) Theater workshop at Saharanpur, ended on high. Workshop culminated into YAHUDI KI LADKI. Agha Hashra Kasmiri’s Yahudi ki Ladki is ‘PARSI’ is style of work.IPTA and NSD’S core initiative adapted ace writer’s Play with trainers Imtiaz Ahmed,Rishikesh Sharma and […]
A Conversation with Norman Uphoff, Advisor to Nourishing the Planet
In this regular series we profile advisors of the Nourishing the Planet project. This week, we feature Norman Uphoff, professor of Government and International Agriculture at Cornell University. Name: Norman Uphoff Affiliation: Cornell University Location: Ithaca, United States Bio: Norman Uphoff is a professor of Government and International Agriculture at Cornell University and former director […]
The Future of Bay Area Newspapers in a Digital Age
The Seattle Post-Intellegence is a Web-only newspaper, the Christian Science Monitor is doing the same, the San Francisco Chronicle is cutting staff by as many as 150 and may be looking to its Hearst Corp. breathren in Seattle for guidance in becoming another Web-only paper, and the Rocky Mountain News in Denver has closed completely. […]
Climate Change Affecting Malaria Patterns
Climate change could affect malaria patterns by reducing disease prevalence in some regions while increasing it in others, researchers said last week during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Chicago. Their assertion, according to Scientific American suggests that climate change could cause malaria to migrate away from lower […]