The Jews Who Cried When the Berlin Wall Fell 30 Years Ago
Not all of the tears that flowed when the Berlin Wall came down 30 years ago on November 9, 1989, were tears of joy. On the dark, eastern side of the wall, there were...
Author: The Kootneeti Team
The Rise of ISIS and its Aftermath in Afghanistan
“I will see you guys in Newyork”. Abu Du’a, the leader of ISIS, whose nom de guerre (war name) was Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, told his American captors as he was released from brief detention...
The New Strategic Context of China-US Relations
If strategy is the making of medium- and long-term plans to achieve an overall aim, then new developments since 2018 have resulted in a new strategic context for China-U.S. relations. Unfortunately, these new developments...
Top Secret Israeli Oil Firm to Pay $30m for Catastrophic Spill in Landmark Case
In 2014, some 5 million litres of crude oil leaked into the Evrona Nature Reserve in what is considered to be one of Israel’s worst ecological disasters Israel’s state-owned Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline Company will pay 100...
The US Army is creating robots that can follow orders
Military robots have always been pretty dumb. The PackBot the US Army uses for inspections and bomb disposal, for example, has practically no onboard intelligence and is piloted by remote control. What the Army...
China Exporting African Swine Fever To Russia?
A new report from Bloomberg details how African swine fever has likely been exported to Russia. This could be problematic for Russia, due in part that if the hog-killing disease spreads, it could start wiping out...
The real story behind ‘The Spy,’ Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Netflix series
For the American comedy “Borat,” his 2006 film, Sacha Baron Cohen went undercover as a made-up Kazakh journalist who travels America and gets unwitting targets to share his boorish and sometimes bigoted opinions. In...
Chinese APT Group Targets Mobile Networks: FireEye Mandiant
The Chinese advanced threat group APT41 is using a new espionage tool to intercept SMS messages from specific phone numbers by infecting mobile telecommunication networks, according to the security firm FireEye Mandiant. The campaign, dubbed...
Security tasks awaiting the next Israeli Prime Minister
Executive Summary: The next Israeli government will have to make critical decisions on urgent security challenges stemming from multiple arenas simultaneously. It will also have to waste no time in securing the next defence budget....
How mega infrastructure projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America are reshaping development
Huge investments in infrastructure are redefining global development, from China’s Belt and Road Initiative to infrastructure development plans from the African Development Bank and the Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America. The scramble to...
