Tag: Middle East

  • Iraq Reconstruction Lessons Learned finds Failure to Consult Culture and $8B in Waste

    Iraq Reconstruction Lessons Learned finds Failure to Consult Culture and $8B in Waste Related articles Iraq Reconstruction Failure (jameskennedy911.wordpress.com) Iraq’s Electricity – sign of a frail infrastructure (britishiraqi.wordpress.com) Iraq Collapse Shows Bankruptcy of Interventionism (safehaven.com)

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  • US diplomats believe Syria dropped hallucinogenic weapon on rebels

    US diplomats believe Syria dropped hallucinogenic weapon on rebels By Noah Shachtman, wired.co.uk Politics The Syr­i­an mil­i­tary used an exot­ic chem­i­cal weapon on rebels dur­ing an attack in the city of Homs, some US diplo­mats now believe. That con­clu­sion — first report­ed by For­eign Pol­i­cy’s Josh Rogin and laid out in a… RT @WiredUK: US…

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  • Green holiday gift guide

    Inhabitat Green Holiday Gift Guide inhabitat.com http://flip.it/M3Ixh Related articles Inhabitat’s Week in Green: stair-climbing vacuum cleaner, carbon dioxide diapers and a real 3D-printed face (engadget.com)

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  • Fossil Fuel Subsidies In Focus At Doha Climate Talks

    AP, huffingtonpost.com DOHA, Qatar — Has­san al-Kubaisi con­sid­ers it a gift from above that dri­vers in oil- and gas-rich Qatar only have to pay $1 per gal­lon at the pump. “Thank God that our coun­try is an oil pro­duc­er and the price of gaso­line is one of the… Fossil Fuel Subsidies In Focus At Doha…

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  • Fred Trotter, health IT hacktivist

    Data: Bringing Hidden Healthcare Data Into the Open Sarah Mitroff, wired.com Self-described health IT hack­tivist and author Fred Trot­ter has hatched a plan to bring hid­den health­care data into the open. http://flpbd.it/ncJYs Related articles ‘Hacktivist’ group Anonymous strikes at Israeli government websites (washingtontimes.com) HIT firm ranks hospitals based on patient engagement tools, social presence &…

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