Monthly Archives: November 2013

What it Means to Miss a Chance

When IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano flew yesterday to Tehran to negotiate a deal with Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Agency, he might have had the hope that his inspectors would get access to the military site … Continue reading

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Good At Killing Normal People

It is said that WikiLeak’s (Chelsea Manning’s) leaked Iraq and Afghanistan War Logs and Diplomatic Cables have embarrassed President Obama who has the unpleasant task to end wars which he has not begun. But the Nobel Peace Prize laureate of … Continue reading

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Good At Killing People

The 2009 Peace Nobel Prize laureate, Barack Obama, is said to have told aides, after U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki had been killed in Yemen in an American drone attack, “Turns out I’m really good at killing people,” and “Didn’t know … Continue reading

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Edward Snowden’s Enigmatic Letter “To Whom it May Concern”

Germany’s Green Party member of parliament Hans-Christian-Ströbele returned from Moskow yesterday with a letter by Edward Snowden [pdf]. The purpose of his letter (co-signed by Ströbele as “witness”) is completely unclear. Ströbele allegedly visited Snowden to ask him whether he … Continue reading

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Snowden May Testify in German Parliamentary Board of Inquiry

Member of German Parliament (Bundestag) Hans-Christian Ströbele of the Green Party has met with Edward Snowden in Moskow and discussed whether there is a possibility to testify in the Merkel NSA tapping case which has been a wake up call … Continue reading

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