News coming out of Pyongyang is not encouraging. After being accused of illegally crossing the border to North Korea, American Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee have been sentenced to 12 years of hard labor (according to CNN). Jillian York rounded up blog posts for Global Voices prior to the journalists’ sentencing. The […]
Amnesty International Issues Statement About U.S. Journalist’s Conviction
Amnesty International issued a statement today asserting the North Korean government should immediately release two U.S. journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who were sentenced to 12 years imprisonment with hard labor. According to Amnesty International, the two journalists were convicted of an unspecified "grave crime" against the nation by the Central Court in […]
Film Review: The Reader and Waltz with Bashir
Guilt is all the rage this winter. For things you did, for things you don’t remember doing, for things you remember doing but are running away from so fast that you run smack dab into a 15-year old boy. Then you have sex with him. A lot. You each get naked. A lot. Then you […]
Cold Fusion: The Ghost of Free Energy
Two decades ago a pair of eminent chemists claimed to find the secret of almost limitless energy, only to have their results dismissed several weeks later. Today many scientists think there was truth in the claims but, as Jon Cartwright discovers, few are still listening The late writer Arthur C Clarke had a knack for […]
Book fair on bangladesh
February 1972 was a momentous spring; in more ways than one. If not for anything else, for the first time in living history, spring smelled of freedom. When Chittoranjan Shaha laid his solitary course at the vicinity of Bangla Academy in February 1972, it was history in the making. Thirty eight years and still on, […]
A.Q. Khan: Father Of Islamic Nuclear Bomb Is Free
It is celebration time in Pakistan. Abdul Qadeer Khan, 72, popularly known as the "father of Islamic nuclear arsenal", was freed last week by the Islamabad High Court from his solitary confinement that lasted five years. The Week quoted from an editorial in Pakistan Observer : "Pakistan’s greatest living hero, Abdul Qadeer Khan, father of Pakistan’s […]
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