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The Occidental Guerrilla

Book Review

Michael A. Innes reviews David Kilcullen's new book The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One. A timely and astute synthesis of experience, research and analysis, the author pinpoints the political shear between minority existential threats to US interests and the majority of the world's locally invested guerrillas who just want to be left alone.

Wired For War

Symposium

The second symposium in CTlab's 2009 series, focused on Peter Singer's new book, Wired For War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century (Penguin Press: 2009), ran from 30 March to 2 April. Singer and half a dozen scholars from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Austria debated the use and ethics of robots in war.

Entries in journalism (4)

Saturday

20Jun

David Rohde Escapes Taliban Captivity

Headlines | â€”Author:

Mike Innes

One of the more interesting stories not reported since late 2008 has been the abduction of NYT reported and Pulitzer winner David Rohde while researching a book in Afghanistan. Rohde escaped from captivity yesterday, after being held for seven months. The NYT:

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Jun 20, 2009 at 21:39

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journalism,

war

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Twittering the Uprising in Tehran

Culture & Technology | â€”Author:

John Matthew Barlow

Twitter and the revolution. At least that's how The Globe & Mail sees the events in Tehran in the past week. Protesters are wired, using txt messaging, Facebook, and Twitter to arrange and organise. Indeed, the State Department even intervened, asking Twitter to re-schedule an update to its service so that protesters in Tehran could continue to use it. All of this is made possible because Canadian computer scientists have developed a software called Psiphon, which can be used to get around Iranian government censorship of web pages. At 2pm Eastern time in North America today, The Globe will be having an on-line discussion of the issue here.

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Jun 17, 2009 at 17:46

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communication,

information,

journalism

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American Journalists as Pawns in North Korea

Headlines | â€”Author:

John Matthew Barlow

North Korea on Monday sentenced two American journalists working for Al Gore's Current TV to 12 years of hard labour. Laura Ling and Euna Lee were arrested on 17 March whilst researching a story on the plight of North Korean refugees -- most notably women and children -- looking for food and shelter in China. They were charged with “committing hostilities against the Korean nation and illegal entry." Whether or not they actually did enter North Korea is another matter; the women were arrested along

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Jun 10, 2009 at 13:49

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geopolitics,

journalism,

media,

security

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Sitting In Offices vs. Working In Warzones

War & Peace | â€”Author:

Mike Innes

Updated on Jun 10, 2009 at 5:31 by Mike Innes

Tom Ricks, on Kimberly Dozier: "The more I hear from Kimberly Dozier of CBS, the more impressed I am. This is from her commencement address at Wellesley College. She is talking about being hit by a car bomb a few years ago in Baghdad:

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Jun 9, 2009 at 19:50

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education,

ideas,

journalism,

war

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