Much has been made in the last month of Twitter's unexpected role in Iran's ongoing political upheaval. The social-networking tool became the de facto method of communication among those protesting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's questionable re-election, in the process earning widespread accolade for giving voice to the people.

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The Chinese censorship authorities have a new target - PC manufacturers. By the end of June '09, China wants all personal computer manufacturers, including US-based Dell, HP, and Apple, to install censorship software prior to sale in China. The software called 'Green Dam,' developed by the Chinese military, is...

Maps are incredibly powerful instruments. In addition to conveying geographical information, maps, ab aeterno, manifest political, philosophical, actual and imagined snapshots of time. And nowhere on Earth is the meaning of maps more powerful and more controversial than in the Middle East, particularly when it comes to Israel and its...

Tel Aviv: With the ascension of Avigdor Lieberman to foreign minister of Israel, the term "facts on the ground" will take on a whole new meaning. Lieberman's rise, to many, is the logical extension of Israel's self-destructive policies vis-a-vis the ongoing occupation. Not only does Lieberman support the illegal occupied...

Israelis are fond of pointing out that in the Arab world, maps regularly deny the existence of the State of Israel, referring only to an entity called Palestine, which stretches from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River. But Arabs are not the only ones who deny the existence of the...

The year 2008 saw the worst financial crisis since the 1930s. Global stock exchanges, housing markets, banks have collapsed and the cost of fuel, feed, and food have risen greatly. We have seen unprecedented nationalization of entire industries by free-market governments. Yes, from homeowners to workers to bankers, 2008 was...