Tag Archives : Washington

Nissan Motors To Resume Leaf Electric Vehicle Orders In The U.S

Nissan Motors To Resume Leaf Electric Vehicle Orders In The U.S

For the 21st century motorist, it’s all about saving the environment while driving their luxury intensive electric or hybrid cars that have near zero or absolutely no carbon footprints. Understanding the growing awareness and due to the rising anticipation, Nissan Motors, the automobile giant from Japan has now announced its plans of resuming its [...]
9th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling: What You Did Not Know about the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Policy

9th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling: What You Did Not Know about the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Policy

If you were wondering how hypocritical the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy really is, well it is actually ridiculously hypocritical. If you are gay and come any of these 9 states of the U.S., you may have more protections than the rest of your countrymen or women. The States are Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and [...]
Is there really a New Taliban? The hike in US defense budget seems to prove so

Is there really a New Taliban? The hike in US defense budget seems to prove so

Gabriela Campos, an intern at the Institute for Policy Studies, talks about a compilation of analyses regarding the New Taliban. The book, entitled Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afghan Field, is edited by Antonio Giustozzi who is a fellow at the London School of Economics. The book asserts that a stronger Neo-Taliban has definitely emerged, [...]
Elite Luxury Travel Finally Opens its West Coast Office in Los Angeles

Elite Luxury Travel Finally Opens its West Coast Office in Los Angeles

Elite Luxury Travel, which was founded in 1992 in New York by George Schwab takes pride in announcing its West Coast Office in Los Angeles, which is located at 17406 Lull Street, Northridge. Elite Luxury Travel has been providing excellent sales and marketing consulting services to the hospitality industry since its inception. With the opening of the [...]
Cardiologists Can Now Get a Better View of Arteries

Cardiologists Can Now Get a Better View of Arteries

Now even the cardiologists, while on work, can be an audience to the spectacular 3D view. It might not be for their source of entertainment, but they can now have a 3D view of the intricate structure of the human arteries. The conventional method of subjecting the patient to X-rays several times, to comprehend the jumble of the human arteries, is going [...]
Robert Gates and the ‘American Footprint’ in Afghanistan

Robert Gates and the ‘American Footprint’ in Afghanistan

It is said that there are ‘two poles in Washington: the counterinsurgency experts, or COIN-istas, who believe Afghanistan’s deteriorating security can only be reversed by adding tens of thousands of troops – perhaps as many as 80,000; and those who believe US interests in Afghanistan are few, and the best way to keep it on a low simmer is [...]
Zelaya, Chavez, and Obama: The Winds of Change in Latin America?

Zelaya, Chavez, and Obama: The Winds of Change in Latin America?

‘The Honduran military ousted and exiled leftist President Zelaya in what was Central America’s first military coup since the Cold War.’ The move was triggered by Zelaya’s attempt to legalize an extension of his power timetable. In other words, Zelaya wanted to tinker with the country’s Constitution to seek another term of office, a sensitive [...]
U.S. secretly negotiated with China on climate change

U.S. secretly negotiated with China on climate change

A group of prominent Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. talked secretly with China on matters about climate change over the recent months. The visit to China, attended by people who now occupy positions in the Obama government, produced a draft document in March that was meant to be submitted to the White House. Although the Memorandum of Understanding [...]
Barack Obama and Mahmoud Abbas to meet on May 28 in Washington

Barack Obama and Mahmoud Abbas to meet on May 28 in Washington

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas will meet with US president Barack Obama in Washington on May 28 to discuss the resumption of peace negotiations with Israel, as well as the cessation of settlement construction. “Our position and our vision are part of a two-state solution which includes the cessation of settlement construction and the policy [...]
Cyber Command: U.S. prepares for war on the Internet

Cyber Command: U.S. prepares for war on the Internet

The Obama administration is finalizing the creation within the Pentagon of a new unit called Cyber Command, dedicated to ensuring the security of computer networks of the United States military that have been, of late, threatened by the intrusion of hackers linked especially to countries such as China and Russia. Most likely to be at the helm of the [...]