World: Playing with uranium: Has Iran been hiding a nuclear facility?
- one number of uranium enrichment plants the world knew Iran had before Monday source
World: Afghanistan’s cash crop, opium, won’t get destroyed anymore
- During the Bush administration, those fighting in Afghanistan fought the war on drugs head-on by destroying opium poppy plants – a huge cash crop in the country. The Obama administration is reversing this policy, letting these beautiful, drug-riddled plants live, but investing hundreds of millions in new crops that don’t get you high. But what’s the fun in that?source