In February 2011 I pointed out Congo (DRC) as the area of an upcoming war in 2013-14. This view of mine was further explicated in an article posted when I read that President Barack Obama was dispatching about 100 military personnel to Uganda to help track a fugitive named Joseph Kony, commander of the Lord's Resistance Army. Kony, who nowadays is the number 1 wanted by the International Criminal Court, is hiding somewhere in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Since last December, when my articl…
The 3D in cinema dates back to 1953, when the film "The House of Wax 3D" first set a template which endured through the cinema's two big boom periods in the 1950s and 1980s. In the years past audiences had dismissed this technique as a cheap trick but nowadays there is a great pioneering wave of filmmakers (S. Spielberg, P. Jackson, J. Cameron) who are applying it. In 2011 Christopher Nolan's "Inception" won 4 Academy Awards, including those of best achievement in cinematography and best achieve…
Protests in Syria started in January 2011 aiming at political reforms and an end to the state of emergency which has been in place since 1963. Subsequently, the international community and media are focusing at Syria and its President Bashar al-Assad due to the violent crackdown of the upheaval. The United Nations, the USA and other States are calling on Syrian authorities to stop the assault on its own people and the Assad regime was suspended from the Arab League recently.