Last week my friend Diederik wrote a blog titled “Twittering to End Dictatorship: Ensuring the Future of Web-based Social Movements” in which he expressed his concern that (Western) corporations might facilitate oppressive regimes in wiretapping and spying on their citizens. Now it appears that his concerns have turned out to be true. As he points [...]
Entries tagged as “iran”
When good companies go bad – How Nokia Siemens helped Iran monitor its citizens
Firefox 3 pledge map vs. the Pentagon’s new map
What are the geopolitics of open source? To find out I thought it would be interested to see how Thomas Barnett’s map meshed with the Spread Mozilla Firefox 3 download pledge map. Some brief background for those not familiar with “The Pentagon’s New Map.” It is a map that sits at the heart of a [...]
Why the US isn’t leaving Iraq – even under Hillary
Just read the three powerful paragraphs below off the recent Strafor report. Damning stuff. It suggests the prospect of the US concentrating forces in Afghanistan are slight as Iraq will continue to tie them down for the next several years. Moreover, if there was ever any doubt, it should now be erased: the Neo-cons have [...]
Negotiating with the Enemy: the case of Iran, Syria and the United States
After my friend Taylor published this post about the US-Syrian-Iranian negotiation he asked me how would I structure the talks and what would be the most significant obstacle. Back in the 1970′s Roger Fisher used a method called the one-text that helped create the document that became the basis for the 1978 Sinai Agreement between [...]
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