by Foggy Bottom
On Saturday February 4th, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors referred Iran to the UN Security Council. For the US, this was a significant and long awaited diplomatic victory. Since 2003, it had been actively lobbying the member-states of the IAEA Board of Governors to sanction Iran for technical violations [...]
news from uberculture:
“For those who heard that CZECH DREAM would not be screened tonight at
Cinema Politica, the good news has arrived: the distributors in
Europe caved in to our intense lobby efforts (well, they responded
positively to a few emails) and are now allowing us to screen this
funny and creative political doc.
CZECH DREAM will be screened tonight [...]
Arrival
by LK
We finally rolled into Puerto Vallarta in the state of Jalisco (the home of mariachi music, and tequilla for better or worse) to haggle with the local marina about our boat storage fees for our other boats. We arranged a Panga (the typical name for the ubiquitous Mexican styled all purpose 20 footish [...]
We’re building a board of contributing editors. Come on board and you can write about anything you like, it’s called Open after all, but the secret guiding scheme is this: collectively we’re writing toward a messy and many-headed theory of everything.
I think the most interesting theories don’t come from the academy, but are observations [...]
did you miss part 1?
Linus wasn’t an intentional revolutionary or anything like that, but his understanding of the different kind of success that might be possible with a committed effort of collaborative devlopment built something new. In this viral, communicative way I think Hiphop and Open Source share a politics.
At the core of open source [...]
The violence in Lebanon has been met with an astonishing solidarity, and that’s always good news:
A man carried a sign reading “Enough” along with a symbol of the cross and the Quran, Islam’s holy book.
An estimated 50 veiled Shiite Muslim female students from Hezbollah, a pro-Syrian group, also joined the protest in solidarity.
“We will [...]
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