Japan sat on U.S. radiation maps showing immediate fallout from nuke crisis
The government failed to make use of detailed U.S. maps showing how radiation spread shortly after the Fukushima nuclear crisis began, sources familiar with the matter revealed Monday. The sources said...
View ArticleA Scanner Darkly: Cities using AI for pre-crime monitoring of surveillance...
San Francisco’s Municipal Transit Authority (MUNI), the latest purchaser, is using AISight software to continuously monitor more than 150 “objects and activities” at 12 train stations via real-time...
View ArticleThailand: Violent students to be drafted into Army automatically
From now on, students from vocational schools who are regarded as troublemakers or have a history of violence will be automatically conscripted to the Army as soon as they reach the correct age, Army...
View ArticleChinese Cities Testing Labor Camp Reform
It’s a penal system that requires no courts. Instead, China’s police can send someone to a labor camp for up to four years with no judicial process. There, individuals usually end up as slave labor,...
View ArticlePlans for ‘Alawite state’ caught on Turkey’s radar
Turkey has been struggling to cope with the growing number of refugees from Syria, but officials in Ankara are now having to contend with a new concern – reported efforts to make Hatay a part of a...
View ArticleHow China’s Leaders Steer a Massive Nation
The important chief planners are in Beijing and have one of the most difficult jobs in the world: governing a nation of 1.3 billion people. China's provinces are as populous as entire countries on...
View ArticleSpecial Report on China: The secretive world of the Communist Party
The city of Beijing has installed an interactive find-your-route kiosk with a touchscreen on the street from the People’s University to Weigongcun underground station. On its sides, red display screens...
View ArticlePutin’s siege-mentality Russia now firmly in the grip of a ‘cold civil war’
What's going on in the world's largest non-democracy? Are the people cynically turning to that old Russian saw ni boga ni chorta (neither god nor the devil) in their attitudes toward authority and...
View ArticleStudy Claims Thousands Would Die In Attack On Iran Nuclear Sites
Experts believe the Isfahan uranium-conversion facility -- which contains an estimated 371 metric tons of uranium hexafluoride -- is one of the four Iranian sites likely to be targeted if Israel or the...
View ArticleBaltics a Model for Catalonia and Catalonia a Model for Others
Catalonians seeking independence from Spain last week copied the Baltic Chain that Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians formed from Tallinn to Riga to Vilnius in 1989, the latest indication of the rise...
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