Above Photo: A man waves an estelada, or Catalonia independence flag, during a gathering at Plaza Catalonia in Barcelona on the day of the referendum. Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP Catalonia is not unique: all over Europe groups are seeking to redefine identity and rejecting the centralised state The Spanish government’s attempted suppression of Catalonia’s independence referendum by brute […]
Posts Tagged ‘ripples’
Blood on the tracks of the New Silk Roads: Qatar chaos sends ripples of economic anxiety across the region
June 15, 2017 by Pepe Escobar for the Asia Times hina’s cardinal foreign policy imperative is to refrain from interfering abroad while advancing the proverbial good relations with key political actors – even when they may be at each other’s throats. Still, it’s nothing but gut-wrenching for Beijing to watch the current, unpredictable, Saudi-Qatari standoff. […]
Surfing over simulated ripples in graphene
Graphene, a one-atom thick sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, has many desirable properties. Magnetism alas is not one of them. Magnetism can be induced in graphene by doping it with magnetic impurities, … Source Article from http://phys.org/news/2015-09-surfing-simulated-ripples-graphene.html
In central Kabul, tension ripples amid Taliban assault
Tim Schwarz and Joe Sterling,CNN Sept 13, 2011 Fighting that raged for hours in Kabul Tuesday afternoon after a dramatic Taliban attack on the U.S. Embassy and NATO’s command calmed down greatly during the evening hours, a military spokesman told CNN But the strike in central Kabul and two other brazen assaults across the city left […]