Assad’s Crimes And The Syrian Nuclear State

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Recently, the German magazine Der Spiegel reported it had overwhelming evidence proving Assad is still working to create a nuclear facility with assistance from Tehran and Pyongyang. This evidence included satellite imagery of the location and sources from western intelligence agencies. Western experts who evaluated the documents Spiegel obtained believed a reactor or enrichment plant was could be the aim of the project currently codenamed, “Zamzam.” There have also been reports that this facility is actually being built for the government in Tehran. Should this be true and the Assad regime can create a nuclear facility capable of creating weapons, things begin to look much worse for the Syrian people.

For almost four years now the Assad regime has been decimating its own people for the sake of holding onto power. When the Syrian Civil War began it was not due to extremism or a power hungry group trying to take control, it was the cry of a peoples to live in a truly democratic, civil state and for the release of political prisoners. The regime responded to these cries with the arrests and murder of hundreds of individuals over several months, eventually blockading an entire neighborhood of Daraa with automatic rifles and missiles, pushing the inhabitants to famine. After this peaceful resistance was continually met with violence, the people of Syria understood their dream of a truly democratic, free state would not be realized unless other paths were taken.

Ask Not For Whom The Wall Falls

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We are now in the midst of commemorating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, which was followed in short order by the collapse of the Soviet Union and its entire international system.

I say “commemorate,” but when it comes to the collapse of the wall and enormous Soviet system, the word most people use is “celebrate.” But here I would interject an ancient Spanish folk proverb which goes, “when you see your neighbor’s beard on fire, put your beard to soak;” or the not so ancient but equally valid American saying, “what goes around, comes around.”

In my opinion the most unbiased, irrefutable, undeniable take-away from the collapse of the USSR and its entire ideological superstructure is that huge, powerful, complex and historically successful systems, which have embodied the hopes and dreams of several generations of people all around the world, can just up and die with little or no warning … Soon to be playing in theaters near you.

Challenge & Promise In Germany’s Energiewende

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In 1997, the EU issued a Directive on Electricity Production from Renewable Energy Sources, with the modest goal of having 12% of electricity produced by renewable sources by 2010. Germany met that goal in 2007 and, flush with success, developed more challenging targets of its own:  40-45% electricity from renewables by 2025, 18% renewable energy […]

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