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Egypt: Dictatorship, democracy, dictatorship The Economist On November 27th a gathering as vast as any since the heady days of Egypt’s January 2011 revolution choked the centre of Cairo in a cacophony of protest against Muhammad Morsi, a man they now condemn as a new...

By fear or favour once more let down

By John Charles Dyer, UK Correspondent 30 November 2012.  Yesterday Judge Leveson delivered his long awaited report into Media ethics.   It was hardly the storming of the Bastille. The Judge seemed to some to lean over backwards to shield the police, Ministers and the...

ASP Slides: Biofuels and National Security

ASP’s Andrew Holland gave a presentation at The National Advanced Biofuels Conference & Expo on November 28 in Houston, Texas. His talk covered the role that DoD’s biofuels program plays in mitigating national security risk.  Below is a copy of his...

Boko Haram emir praises al Qaeda

Boko Haram emir Abubakar Shekau, from a propaganda tape. The emir of Boko Haram, the Nigerian terror group that has ties to al Qaeda, has praised the global jihadist organization, and said he and his fighters support jihad in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, Chechnya,...