Articles by Ben Piven
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Interactive: World Nuclear Club
Mohammed Haddad and Ben Piven - Al Jazeera,
11 Jun 2012
While 14 nations host nuclear weapons, 30 countries generate atomic energy, and another 18 are building future reactors.
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Ben Piven - Al Jazeera,
7 May 2012
From an active-duty force of 1.4 million soldiers, the US has deployed some 350,000 troops to at least 130 foreign countries around the world. Some are at Cold War-era installations, but many are in or near combat zones in the Middle East. At more than 750 bases internationally, private contractors and third-country nationals also form a large percentage of the staff, in addition to military reservists and civilian employees of the Pentagon.
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Ben Piven – Al Jazeera,
11 Jul 2011
Luv Puri is a political analyst who has won a Fulbright scholarship and European Commission Award for Human Rights and Democracy and recently wrote Across the Line of Control, which focuses on life in Pakistan-administered Jammu & Kashmir – to be published by Columbia University Press in Fall 2011. Puri explains why the long-running Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan remains so intractable.
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