Results for “World Energy Forum”

…need to be a drama queen. Spring 1999 In three months, I accept and quit jobs as a curriculum designer at Berlitz, the world’s largest publisher of foreign-language materials, and as an analyst at a three-person political asylum research firm. Naturally, I then fly to Taiwan to...

…of parties suspected of © hacking into U.S. government networks. ® Following the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, the surveillance of the Internet became an integral part of the Bush administration’s war on terrorism. In October 2001, Con- gress expanded...

…reating new organizations to take the blame for conflicts is an old tactic both for the Palestinians and throughout the world. Hamas' ideal attack would offer it plausible deniability - allowing it to argue it did not even know an attack was imminent, much less carry it out - an...

…ynihan, fumed that “the United States rises to declare before the General Assembly of the United Nations and before the world that it does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act.” The result of this resolution was that “Zionists” were...

…, America’s enormous electronic surveillance agency. These sensational revelations had been, literally, the talk of the world, and now, in another major news event, the boyish-looking Snowden revealed his responsibility for what would turn out to be the largest theft of top-secre...

…n imagine hypothetical combinations of the most malevolent totalitarians with the most advanced technology, in the real world it’s the norms and laws we should be vigilant about, not the tech. Consider variation across time. If, as Orwell hinted, advancing technology was a prime...

…geted non-white men); Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 6-9 (2010); World Prison Brief Data, Inst. for Crim. Pol'y Res. (2016), http://www. prisonstudies.org/country/united-states-america (comparing national data on total prison...

23 simply transform the way we perceive the world without altering reality itself. Let me give you an example. While writing these lines, my friend calls. He is at Heathrow Airport waiting to get on a plane to Austria for a skiing holiday. His plane has been delayed for three ho...

…ct and we improvise as best we can." Anyone under the age of thirty reading the above would probably think, "Why in the world is the US government using the Blackberry?" Those who turned thirty long before the end of the last century— even those of us who try seriously not to be...

…ars from now -- but if it does, I doubt I'd want to make it monogamous. I recognize that we don't always get our ideal world. In fact, we usually don't. Although polyamory is a high priority for me, it may be something I eventually compromise on, given that the majority of peopl...

…ivil society, once regarded as an irresistible force in the global struggle for democracy. According to Freedom in the World, the ability of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and other civil society institutions to function without state re- strictions has suffered a pronounc...

…y: Edward Snowden in Exile,’Ewen MacAskill and Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian, July 18, 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/-sp-edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower- interview-transcript 8. “He emailed Gellman under...”-- Barton Gellman, “Code name ‘Verax’: Snowden, in...

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… 2014 7. “Guardian policy required...”-- Luke Hardy, The Snowden Files: the Inside Story of the Most Wanted Man in the World (Vintage New York) 2014, p. 114-116 8. “The next morning he...”-- George Packer, “The Holder of Secrets,” New Yorker, October 20, 2014 9. “Iam ina safe...

…I was a teenager, I often walked onto the tennis court thinking that I was John McEnroe, serving and volleying like the world’s number one player. Each case above tells the story of a person who acted as if the world was one way even though it wasn’t. The Holocaust and its trail...