Mar
7
Making Fuel From Air
March 7, 2008 | 1 Comment
by Carol Zhou Yan
Scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory say they have developed a way to produce truly carbon-neutral fuel and useful organic chemicals at large scale using water and carbon dioxide removed from the air as raw materials. There are plenty of schemes brewing to capture carbon dioxide, both directly from the atmosphere and from [...]
Mar
7
Cyril Ramaphosa makes political news again
March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Penny (4)
Eighteen years ago after an aging Nelson Mandela was released from Robbin Island, the young man who introduced his first political speech to the world was Cyril Ramaphosa.
For a man who had Mandela’s confidence this event marked what should have been a promising and long term political career in the new South [...]
Mar
7
Arms dealer arrested
March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
by Thomas
Remember Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer we discussed in one of our classes? He has now been arrested in Thailand. Here’s the story http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/07/thailand.russia
Mar
7
Myths about Kenya’s conflict
March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Meryam
Independent reporter John Barbieri discusses three myths about Kenya’s political conflict, as well as the role played by the media in perpetuating these, in an article titled ‘The poverty of international journalism’.
Firstly, and most importantly, Barbieri makes a clear distinction between an ethnic conflict and a political conflict, and asserts that we saw in [...]
