By Rahnuma Ahmed It all began with the Haiti earthquake. I must write about it, I thought. Soon after I began researching, I came across HAARP. And then, across a 1996 report for the US Air Force which looked forward … Continue reading
By Rahnuma Ahmed “Primarily the work is aimed at giving the US Navy and the other armed forces, if they should care to use it, the capability of modifying the environment, to their own advantage, or to the disadvantage of … Continue reading
By Nizar Qabbani (1923-1998) I knew that she would be killed and she knew that I would be killed both prophecies came true she fell, like a butterfly, beneath the rubble of (the Age of Ignorance) and I fell … … Continue reading
Nelson Mandela’s release from prison 20 years ago opened negotiations which finally ended the racist segregation of the apartheid system. The BBC’s diplomatic editor James Robbins, who was in Cape Town to report on the release, has been back to … Continue reading
By Saydia Gulrukh For the past few months, I have been preparing for an almost meaningless exam, one which graduate students in the US have to take, called ‘comps’ (short for comprehensive/PhD candidacy exam). During moments of sarcasm, we also … Continue reading
By Rahnuma Ahmed “Technology will make available to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised… techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce … Continue reading
By Jeevani Fernando We were both doing what I did when I was her age, buried in a Reader’s Digest. She is nearly turning 12 and me nearly 40!! Her father says ‘the house could burn down, but this girl … Continue reading
By Rahnuma Ahmed “In 2025, US aerospace forces can “own the weather” by capitalizing on emerging technologies and focusing development of those technologies to war-fighting applications… weather-modification offers the war fighter a wide-range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary.” – … Continue reading
