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Iran: Sanctions, Diplomacy Failing to Slow Nuclear Program

May 24, 2013
The International Atomic Energy Agency's latest report on Iran's nuclear program indicates that Iran continues to make steady progress in producing nuclear fuel in defiance of international sanctions and new diplomacy. This includes developing advanced uranium centrifuges and a heavy water reactor that Iran could use to significantly increase its production of enriched uranium and to begin to produce plutonium.
 
The IAEA also raised in the report its continuing concerns over possible “military dimensions” of the Iranian nuclear program and noted new efforts to cover up a site where Iran may have conducted explosive testing related to the development of a nuclear warhead.
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Iran: Sanctions, Diplomacy Failing to Slow Nuclear Program
Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili who was recently approved to run in Iran’s June 14 presidential election. (BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images)
Emerging Africa: A Potential Boom Carrying Significant Risk

Emerging Africa: A Potential Boom Carrying Significant Risk

May 8, 2013
Negative real interest rates across the West and weakness in Japan and China have analysts working feverishly to make the case for emerging Africa as a real chance to get in on the ground floor of a continent-wide boom. Resource-rich and demographically young, African economies would seem prime targets for developed-world investors seeking the next round of emerging-nation opportunities, much like the vaunted Asian “tigers” before it.
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Japanese Nuclear Reprocessing Plans Stir Fears in Asia

Japanese Nuclear Reprocessing Plans Stir Fears in Asia

May 7, 2013
Nuclear tensions in Asia are already high and may increase further if Japan carries through on its plan to reprocess nuclear waste into plutonium which can be used to make nuclear weapons. As the only nation to have been attacked by nuclear weapons, Japan long has had a strong policy against developing or acquiring them, even as it has developed a robust commercial nuclear industry to help meet its energy needs. This may be changing.
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New Tankers Will Make Natural Gas a Global Commodity

New Tankers Will Make Natural Gas a Global Commodity

May 7, 2013
The number of ships designed to carry liquefied natural gas (LNG) contracted to be built at shipyards worldwide is almost 20 times what it was only three years ago, a reflection of the large number of recent discoveries of huge natural gas fields coupled with a growing desire around the world for alternatives to high sulfur fossil fuels. The new ships will transform natural gas into a global commodity in the same way that oil was in the 1970s.
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Canada Facing Backlash For Refusal to Abandon Values

Canada Facing Backlash For Refusal to Abandon Values

May 7, 2013
By its firm defense of human rights, freedom, and the fight against terrorism, Canada has proved itself a shining example for the world. However, these policies have drawn the ire of a number of states with less than stellar records on these scores, including China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran, which recently spurred the UN Human Rights Commission to lead a hypocritical witch hunt against Canada. These attacks could grow following a new counter terrorism bill passed by Canada last week on the heels of the arrest of two alleged al-Qaeda affiliated terrorists who were reportedly plotting to attack a passenger train.
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Swiss Immigration Quotas Signal End of the New Europe

Swiss Immigration Quotas Signal End of the New Europe

May 7, 2013
Switzerland’s decision to impose a one-year quota on immigration from all European Union countries appears likely to be the first nail in the coffin of the hallmark Schengen agreement, which allows for the free movement of Europeans across the continent. As the EU’s economic troubles continue to grow, it is increasingly likely that anti-immigrant parties in EU countries will seek to use the Swiss example to demand that borders be closed.
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Hoekstra 'Very, Very Pessimistic' About Afghanistan

Hoekstra 'Very, Very Pessimistic' About Afghanistan

May 6, 2013
In an exclusive LIGNET interview, former Congressman Peter Hoekstra gave a dismal assessment of the situation in Afghanistan as U.S. and NATO forces prepare to end combat operations there after more than 11 years. The Taliban, he says, has been a clever and persistent foe, and has not been defeated. It will re-emerge, says Hoekstra, and strengthen, and Afghanistan will regress.
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